Woke bashing of the week – Reform to ban councils from flying ‘woke’ flags
Worryingly, it’s often the mad-as-a-hatter crowd who go the distance in politics, just look at Donald Trump.
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Right-wing media watch – Immigration panic drowns out UK/India trade deal
You might expect that with a UK/India trade deal having been seen as one of the crown jewels of post-EU independence, the pro-Brexit media would be celebrating its arrival after more than three years of negotiations across successive governments.
Farage: who are the guilty men (and women)?
Like a recurring rash, Farage keeps coming back, louder and more emboldened each time. But who let it happen? Who are the enablers—the donors bankrolling his campaigns, the commentators parroting his lines, the broadcasters handing him a microphone time and time again, and the botched policies of the other parties?
Woke-bashing of the week – Trump’s holy snitch hotline!
It makes you nostalgic for the days when it was just Fox News and of course its UK copycats – GB News and the Daily Mail – which tuned their violins for the annual “Easter cancelled” and “War on Christmas” symphony, where the absence of a nativity scene becomes a constitutional crisis.
Right-wing media watch – Mail reaches for the trans panic playbook
In faithfully amplifying Lord Ashcroft’s latest attempt to cause political embarrassment, through the ever-reliable culture war wedge, the Mail doesn’t just play dirty, it plays painfully predictable.
Lessons from Canada: Is it time to stop trying to ape populist politicians?
Rather than courting the right, Carney gained votes by uniting the left, aided in part by Donald Trump’s unwelcome interference. Labour, by contrast, risks alienating its progressive support by chasing the right-wing vote. In doing so, it offers little that inspires, let alone galvanises.
Woke-bashing of the week – Trump’s authoritarian crackdown on universities championed by the Mail
The article predictably enlists a cast of familiar right-wing voices to make the case for British universities to follow Trump’s lead.
Right-wing media watch – Anti-net zero press delight in stirring the Miliband/Farage spat
Expecting the anti-net zero brigade to do their homework might be asking too much.
Reform on the rise, Tories on the ropes: what’s at stake on May 1?
Independent candidates are fast becoming the conscience of the left, offering a way to hold Labour to account. Their rise, like Reform’s, shows how broken Britain’s two-party system has become, and how ripe it is for potential change.
Woke-bashing of the week – Naval academy forced to remove 400 books in DEI purge
Meanwhile, on our side of the pond, the right’s crusade against ‘woke’ culture in the armed forces also hit a setback this week, when ministers scrapped a Tory-initiated review into military ‘wokeism’