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Right-Wing Watch

Jacinda Ardern

Woke-bashing of the week – Jacinda Ardern becomes the latest target of the ‘post-woke’ movement

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 June, 2025

Rather than wielding authority for its own sake, Ardern emphasises the importance of empathy, principled leadership, and purpose-driven politics. It’s a vision that stands in depressing contrast to the reactionary impulses of the so-called ‘post-woke’ movement.

Right-wing media watch – Bring back Boris! Conservative media flirts with fantasy as Tories flounder

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 June, 2025

It makes you wonder if the tabloid tussle over Johnson’s return is just a ploy for clicks. In any case, would Johnson want to a second coming? He seems pretty busy making money, and babies.

Right-Wing Watch

Nativism: The real reason behind the right’s newfound concern for child poverty

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 June, 2025

The benefits that Reform champions are largely reserved for those who conform to the right’s ideal of the ‘traditional family,’ that is married, heterosexual, and supportive of conservative values.

Right-wing media watch – Dovid Efune insists his ‘British bid’ for Telegraph still alive amid foreign takeover deal

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 June, 2025

The sale of the Telegraph saga goes on.

Woke bashing of the week – woke-bashing backfires as GB News faces backlash over anti-LGBTQ+ slur

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 June, 2025

“That is an actual comedy show. Not comedy masquerading as news like GB News output.”

Right-Wing Watch

Hungary: the anti-media model loved by the Right

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 May, 2025

As populist movements gain ground worldwide, the pressing question is: how far will this authoritarian, anti-media model be allowed to spread?

Woke-bashing of the week: now even Stonehenge is woke

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 May, 2025

What the right cannot abide is the idea that our history is the product of many races and creeds, just as our present is too.  

Daily Express

Right-wing media watch – Express’ farcical attack on Rayner and Miliband ‘hypocrisy’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
24 May, 2025

If the Express wants to decry hypocrisy, it should take a long hard look in a mirror.

Right-Wing Watch

Right-wing media outrage over Starmer’s tentative EU deal completely misses national mood

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
24 May, 2025

The right-wing media remain trapped in a 2016 time warp, still wildly waving Union Jacks and making snide digs at Brussels, oblivious to how far the country has moved on. For the right-wing commentariat, the old tunes are always the best. Updating the playlist has to be resisted at all costs.

Woke-bashing of the week – MAGA in meltdown over ‘woke Marxist Pope’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 May, 2025

The right hasn’t held back in their criticism of who they have branded “anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, pro-open borders, and a total Marxist.

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