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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead

Right-Wing Watch

Pipe bombs and chicken nuggets: how fake news became ‘fact’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 December, 2025

From Trump to Fox News, Johnson to Fleet Street, misinformation is not a series of isolated failures. It’s a business model, one that rewards outrage, punishes accuracy and treats the public not as citizens to be informed, but as audiences to be manipulated.

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Erasmus returns, and with it, the familiar sound of Brexiteer outrage

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 December, 2025

Even readers of the Express, often dubbed the Brexpress, were not entirely convinced by their paper’s fury.

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Woke-bashing of the week: Elon Musk labels EU ‘woke Statis’ after X is fined €120m

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 December, 2025

For all the talk of “the people,” Musk’s position boils down to a demand that one billionaire, who’s, unelected, unaccountable, and running a global communication platform, should operate above the law. Europe, to its credit, is saying no.

Right-Wing Media Watch: Piers Morgan’s Uncensored expansion – another step towards a consolidated right-wing media empire

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 December, 2025

Things could be worse. Piers Morgan could have confirmed the rumours that he might apply for the role of BBC director general. Then we’d really be in trouble.

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Top 10% of income-earners earn more than rest of other 90% – report shows

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 December, 2025

Wealth growth has been strongest for the world’s ultra rich.

Lee Anderson
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Lee Anderson mocked for claiming £75k flag project across Nottinghamshire won’t cost taxpayers ‘a single penny’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 December, 2025

“Just think how much of a difference £75k would make to food banks in Notts, for example.”

Right-Wing Watch

The myth of ‘overdiagnosis’: The right’s new culture war

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 December, 2025

What should be a conversation about meeting children’s needs has instead become yet another culture war battlefield.

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Church leader warns against exploiting Christianity for a nationalist, anti-migrant agenda

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 December, 2025

Since his release from prison earlier this year, where he claims to have embraced Christianity, Robinson has increasingly woven Christian imagery into his messaging.

Woke bashing of the week: How a migrant bear and a lullaby became the latest targets of Britain’s culture warriors

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 December, 2025

Their targets are a gentle song about “migrant” Paddington Bear and a reimagined Palestinian lullaby raising funds for humanitarian aid in Gaza.

Right-Wing Media Watch: Step right up for your daily dose of ‘Farage News’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 December, 2025

At this rate, the paper may as well rebrand itself as Farage News, the Daily Farage, or perhaps more honestly, the Farage Mail, given the unwavering devotion it shows to the Reform UK leader.

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