Woke-bashing of the week: Pentagon to sever ties with ‘woke’ Harvard – Payback for Trump’s rejection?
One thing is clear: Trump as Harvard material was always a stretch.
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Right-Wing Media Watch: Mail man Dan Hodges called out for ‘grotesque hypocrisy’ over Mandelson scandal
“Just beyond parody at this point.”
Is Farage’s ‘teenage crush’ on Putin, Starmer’s trump electoral card?
For a Union Jack-wrapping politician, who casts himself as the embodiment of national pride, being accused of admiring a tyrant who threatens European democracy, strikes at the heart of Farage’s brand.
Woke-bashing of the week – The FT, woke? Surely not!
The author argues the FT has shifted from a “candid elite forum” and the “best of the British free-thinking tradition,” to a “timid, risk-averse rag.”
Right-Wing Media Watch: Freedom to what, exactly? The Daily Express and the Brexit fantasy
“WHAT FREEDOM? IT GAVE US NOTHING GAHHHHHHHH.”
The Epstein files and the right’s ‘selective transparency’
Even the young women and children who suffered because of the egos and sexual appetites of these powerful men are increasingly marginalised, and certainly the obscure source of Epstein’s wealth becomes lost in the psycho drama of media coverage.
Woke Bashing of the Week: Has UnHerd lost all shame? When ‘anti-woke’ turns into fat shaming
When you devote paragraphs to a writer’s body, clothes, and supposed visual offence, you forfeit the right to claim weight is beside the point.
Right-Wing Media Watch: The right runs scared about an Ed Miliband return
Clark and others on the right appear genuinely alarmed by the prospect that Miliband could return to the very top of British politics, and they are doing everything they can to convince voters that his tenure as energy and net zero secretary would spell ruin for the country.
Woke-bashing of the week: Bob Monkhouse doesn’t need defending from ‘wokeness’ – least of all by the Sun
Monkhouse’s comedy, and the conventions that shaped it, belong to a bygone era of British entertainment. That does not make it shameful or malicious, but it does make it historically situated.
Right-Wing Media Watch: Right-wing media in a tizzy about Steve Coogan’s ‘anti-British’ comments
The Mail jumped on Coogan’s Irish passport, while the Express amplified “anti-British” criticism.