Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Right-Wing Media Watch: Burnham’s cabinet has barely begun, but the meltdown is in full throttle
One cannot help noticing that Fahnbulleh also embodies several of the characteristics that reliably attract hostility from the right-wing press - Black, left-wing, female, highly accomplished, and a close political ally of Ed Miliband.
Bank bonuses soar to highest level since 2008 crash as unions demand windfall tax
“While sky-high bills are looming for working people, bank bonuses are booming.”
The disturbing mainstreaming of remigration in Europe and Britain
How an extremist idea rooted in the 'Great Replacement' conspiracy is increasingly shaping mainstream immigration policy.
Another defeat for the Daily Mail: Nadia Sawalha and Mark Adderley win defamation case after false terrorism allegations
“These were serious and damaging allegations which falsely suggested that our clients supported terrorism and promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories for simply calling out Israeli war crimes, and opposing Zionism.”
Reform UK Derbyshire council labelled ‘fascists’ after slashing opposition leader’s pay ‘with complete lack of evidence or justification’
“Fascism does not begin with tanks on the lawn. It begins when those in power decide the opposition should be poorer, quieter, and easier to ignore.”
Woke-Bashing of the Week: Culture vultures sweep on Little House on the Prairie, not realising the original was as ‘woke’ as they come
The American frontier was never as uniformly white as popular culture suggested. Acknowledging that fact is not "wokeifying" history. It’s recognising that history was always more complicated than the myths Americans, and television, liked to tell.