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Running scared? The business response to the hard right’s anti-diversity agenda

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 July, 2025

Perhaps the most troubling aspect isn’t just having to watch Clacton’s elusive MP reel off his contempt for anything he deems ‘woke,’ it’s that businesses are doing exactly what these right-wing populists want.

Woke bashing of the week: Pink panic: Sun spins Jaguar’s pink car into culture war fodder

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 July, 2025

Yet another cynical attempt by a right-wing tabloid to turn a brand it has a grudge against into fodder for a culture war tirade.

Daily Mail and Sun

Right-wing media watch – Daily Mail is America’s top news brand on TikTok – yes really!

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 July, 2025

The Daily Mail, Britain’s most notorious right-wing newspaper, is now the most-engaged news brand on TikTok in America.

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From Project 2025 to Project Esther: the Heritage Foundation’s authoritarian global crusade

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 July, 2025

Project Esther is Heritage’s latest ideological weapon. Framed as an effort to combat antisemitism, it aims to criminalise pro-Palestinian activism and equates criticism of Israel with support for terrorism.

Woke-bashing of the week: Right-wing commentators take aim at ‘woke’ banknotes

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 July, 2025

Who appears on money has always been a political choice.

Right-wing media watch – When will they get over a minor band and start acknowledging Palestinian deaths?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 July, 2025

While the British right-wing press continues its obsession with punk bands and protest chants, it remains astonishingly quiet about the devastating human toll in Gaza. Each day, Haaretz, a liberal Israeli newspaper, reports the growing death toll of Palestinian civilians, figures that rarely make it into the headlines of the Mail or the Sun.

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Charity begins on the right? £28m funnelled to right-wing think-tanks

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 July, 2025

These groups have capitalised on the generous tax breaks afforded to charities, allowing wealthy backers to support politically charged agendas while shielding their identities from public scrutiny.

Smear of the week – Telegraph claims Andy Burnham is doing more damage to Labour than Jeremy Corbyn

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 July, 2025

The former MP offers no consideration that Burnham or Khan might actually hold principled positions and that the idea that resisting attacks on disabled people might be a moral imperative, rather than a political manoeuvre.

Right-wing media watch: Sun throws fit over academic research it doesn’t understand

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 July, 2025

One might even say the Sun makes a mockery of its own article by ending on such a sensible note.

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Happy birthday, NHS – But will it survive privatisation?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 July, 2025

As we celebrate its 78th year, our beloved NHS faces an ongoing threat: death by privatisation. The question is: Can Labour be trusted to protect what Nye Bevan built, or will it preside over its gradual dismantling? And what would happen if, God forbid, Farage and Reform got into power?

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