Smear of the week – right-wing meltdown over Gary Neville’s flag comments, once again exposes right’s ‘free speech’ hypocrisy
“Free speech, anyone?”
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Right-Wing Media Watch: when the press panics, you know you’re winning – enter Polanski’s Greens
Unlike other political figures who tend to cower before the tabloid firing squad, Polanski has welcomed the hysteria with open arms.
Chainsaws, chaos and crashing polls: Tories’ Javier Milei infatuation faces a reality check
Truss tanked the UK economy and was out in 49 days. Milei may still be standing, but he’s executing an even extremer version of Trussonomics than Liz Truss executed.
Right-Wing Media Watch – Mail slammed for ‘racism’ hypocrisy, as BBC and Sky hand Farage free pass
The remarks were quickly twisted into yet another outrage cycle by the right-wing press.
How Labour best fights off Reform – stick with McSweeney or cut him loose?
‘Shaking up the adviser team’ is a well-known political tactic, although how much good it actually does is contested. An excess of advisers is yet another Thatcher legacy we could probably do without but will doubtless have to continue to live with.
Woke bashing of the week: the perennial panic returns as Restore Trust takes another swing at the National Trust
Right on cue, is the right-wing media’s annual witch-hunt over the Trust’s alleged ‘wokeness.’
Right-wing media watch – Reform’s young TikTok adviser peddles dangerous misinformation in the Mail
That Reform finds value in this kind of narrative tells us everything we need to know about where the party, and its chosen influencers, want to take the country.
Left or right – who could unite first?
While speculation about a right-wing pact to ensure that the Tories or Reform can win power is rampant, there’s little mention of any sort of progressive pact to save us from such a fate.
Smear of the week – Rod Liddle’s ‘rancid hummus’ scrapes the barrel
Liddle recounts being stuck in standstill traffic in a black cab, presumably somewhere in London, when inspiration struck.
Right-wing media in meltdown over EU flags at the Proms – again!
The pro-Brexit outrage machine might crank into gear every September, but those EU flags still wave with a message far more in tune with the future, especially now, given that even a majority of Reform UK supporters want to unpick parts of Brexit and move the UK closer to Europe.