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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead

A photo of Palestinian flags on poles
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Calls for British Museum to stop ‘erasing Palestine and supporting genocide’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 March, 2026 (4 weeks ago)

“The British Museum (must) avoid complicity in genocide, either through its representation of Palestinians and their history or by providing direct support to those that perpetrate or profit from that genocide.”

Woke bashing of the week – Abolish the arts council? The latest front in the war on woke

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 March, 2026

The free-market pressure group argues that AHRC is squandering taxpayers’ money on “woke pseudoscience” and should be abolished.

Right-wing media watch – Nuts about the Greens

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 March, 2026

Pinning an electoral defeat on conspiracy-tinged claims of fraud is often easier than confronting why voters turned elsewhere.

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Media-fuelled transphobia driving ‘hostile environment’ for trans people, report finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 March, 2026

“Decisions about trans people’s lives are increasingly based entirely on the testimony of non-trans people.”

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“Stop playing politics with Gibraltar”: Fabian Picardo rebukes Suella Braverman over Gibraltar post-Brexit arrangements

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 March, 2026

“Please read all the text and the supporting documents and stop playing politics with the People of Gibraltar whose future YOU and your ilk put in great jeopardy with Brexit.”

Right-Wing Watch

A dark web of influence: Brexit, the hard-right and why the Epstein mentions matter

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 March, 2026

If Epstein’s networks helped broker access or funding for political movements, it’s a matter of public concern. These aren’t insinuations, but a matter of accountability, and in the unresolved story of Brexit, accountability remains in short supply.

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Trump erroneously accused Obama of an ‘election war’ with Iran – now he’s doing exactly that

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 March, 2026

 “For a man who hungers for the Nobel Peace Prize, this war of choice borders on delusion.”

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Woke-bashing of the week: Gingerbread panic, the culture war being manufactured out of crumbs

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 March, 2026

If anything deserves scrutiny, it’s not Tesco’s labelling but the predicable, laborious voices that turn the most negligible of changes into a full-blown culture war.

Right-wing media watch: In branding Zack Polanski a ‘creep,’ Sarah Vine scrapes the barrel and merits the red pen

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 March, 2026

This isn’t political critique, it’s dehumanisation.

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Gibraltar regains post-Brexit freedom of movement – to the ire of the usual Eurosceptic suspects

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 March, 2026

For pro-Europeans, the deal is long overdue for a community that voted overwhelmingly to remain.

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