Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Ofcom’s former chair faces backlash after defending GB News
"I think Michael Grade meant to say 'GB News is embarrassing'.”
Sadiq Khan praised for blocking Met’s £50m Palantir AI deal
“Good for Sadiq. Why should Palantir get their hands on our data? I wouldn’t trust them an inch.”
Woke-bashing of the week: When even the Chelsea Flower Show becomes ‘woke’
The article opens with artist Grayson Perry’s quip that Chelsea is “Glastonbury for people who wear linen,” a line obviously intended as affectionate satire, but repurposed as the prelude to a familiar conservative grievance narrative.
Right-wing media watch: Daily Mail lines up veteran Brexiteers to sound the ‘Brejoin’ alarm
A decade on from the referendum, the case for Brexit sounds like a tired record stuck on repeat.
Mick Lynch torches the Telegraph over Reform UK drift – and the public agrees!
“What I see coming out of The Telegraph every day is making space for racism – and racism is in the eye of the beholder. You are on the way to aligning Reform, and my prediction is that [The Telegraph] will support Reform at the next election.”
The Murdoch effect: How the right abandoned climate conservatism
“Murdoch will be looked back on by historians as someone who used their media monopoly to influence the destabilisation of the Earth’s climate.”