Woke Bashing of the Week: Has UnHerd lost all shame? When ‘anti-woke’ turns into fat shaming
When you devote paragraphs to a writer’s body, clothes, and supposed visual offence, you forfeit the right to claim weight is beside the point.
Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Right-Wing Media Watch: The right runs scared about an Ed Miliband return
Clark and others on the right appear genuinely alarmed by the prospect that Miliband could return to the very top of British politics, and they are doing everything they can to convince voters that his tenure as energy and net zero secretary would spell ruin for the country.
Ofcom urged to act over TalkTV’s broadcast of climate misinformation
The broadcasts have frequently descended into personal abuse.
As Western leaders crack down on immigration, Spain moves to legalise 500,000 undocumented migrants
Pedro Sánchez has repeatedly rejected the claim that migrants are a burden on public services.
Will Trump be Farage (and Reform’s) downfall?
Talk of a silver lining would be inappropriate given the chaos, confusion and real pain Donald Trump has visited upon the world, but maybe stopping Reform might be some small compensation with just a glint of silver.
Arts dominated by middle class and London, report finds
Top-selling musicians are six times more likely than the general public to have attended private schools.
Woke-bashing of the week: Bob Monkhouse doesn’t need defending from ‘wokeness’ – least of all by the Sun
Monkhouse’s comedy, and the conventions that shaped it, belong to a bygone era of British entertainment. That does not make it shameful or malicious, but it does make it historically situated.
Right-Wing Media Watch: Right-wing media in a tizzy about Steve Coogan’s ‘anti-British’ comments
The Mail jumped on Coogan’s Irish passport, while the Express amplified “anti-British” criticism.
Pressure ramped up for UK and Irish governments to help maternity units enter Gaza
The appeal has sparked both support and criticism among Mumsnet users, with critics saying the discussion forum should remain apolitical.
GB News blames Reform’s Derbyshire defeat on tactical voting rather than local failures
The right-wing network’s coverage cast the defeat not as a judgement on Reform’s local performance, but as evidence of an emerging ‘Stop Reform’ plot.