Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Woke bashing of the week: Top five ‘Christmas cancelled’ headlines
Like clockwork, headlines warn that festive traditions are under siege and, each year, the claims grow more ludicrous.
Right-wing media watch: Fury at Reeves’ budget and total amnesia about the Truss disaster
Wasn’t this precisely the kind of Budget many voters expected when they elected a Labour government, one that would finally offer a clear sense of Labour’s priorities and lift hundreds of thousands of families out of poverty?
“Nothing is free”: Susan Hall accidentally ignites ‘free transport’ debate
“You might want to delete this, Susan."
Hugging the Russian bear? Reform’s Moscow links and the media response
In a healthy media landscape, the Gill conviction would have ignited a national reckoning about Reform UK, Russian influence, and the vulnerability of British politics to foreign money and disinformation. Instead, the story slipped quietly beneath the surface, predictably overshadowed by Budget coverage and right-wing rage directed at Rachel Reeves.
Daily Mail to bag another right-wing national, tightening its pernicious grip an already lopsided media
“There are lots of grounds to be concerned about this on reasons of plurality, for competition, but more than anything else this Labour government should consider whether it is good for Britain, and good for its democracy."
Woke-bashing of the week: For proof of the ‘go woke, go broke’ myth, just look at Sydney Sweeney’s box office record
Sydney Sweeney is treated as a symbol of the ‘unwokening.’