Woke bashing of the week: Font wars – Times New Roman strikes back
Place your bets now. In 2026, don’t be surprised if we’re reading headlines about “woke” fonts being purged from Reform-run councils altogether.
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Right-wing media watch: One last swing at Ed! The right-wing press keeps missing the climate point
This familiar trope persists in the right-wing media – reduce climate policy to sneering attacks on Ed Miliband and avoid engaging with the substance of the argument.
Pipe bombs and chicken nuggets: how fake news became ‘fact’
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.
Woke-bashing of the week: Elon Musk labels EU ‘woke Statis’ after X is fined €120m
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
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.
The myth of ‘overdiagnosis’: The right’s new culture war
What should be a conversation about meeting children’s needs has instead become yet another culture war battlefield.
Woke bashing of the week: How a migrant bear and a lullaby became the latest targets of Britain’s culture warriors
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’
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.
Inside ‘Project 2029’: The radical Reform machine preparing to remake Britain
Is there any way out of the prospect of a Reform UK government led by Nigel Farage, aided by a well-connected, opaquely funded, MAGA inspired movement?
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