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Woke bashing of the week: Who gets to be a “national treasure”? Brigitte Bardot and the Telegraph’s selective war on ‘wokeness’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

It is apparently acceptable for Brigitte Bardot to spend decades whipping up racial hatred and still be celebrated as a national icon, perhaps helped by glamour, distance, and nostalgia. But it is unacceptable for Gary Lineker to voice contemporary moral objections to cruelty and injustice.

Right-Wing Media Watch: Newspapers in meltdown over ‘Sadiq Khan’s’ New Year fireworks

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

As ever, responsibility for this alleged civic misery was pinned on a single figure – Sadiq Khan.

Trump’s assault on LGBTQ+ programmes ‘undoubtedly’ hitting UK charities, warns Stonewall

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

Stonewall’s corporate donations more than halved over the past year.

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Northern Ireland needs a voice against the Brexit wrecking ball

Donal Lyons
24 January, 2018

How Brexit threatens the Northern Ireland peace process – and what must happen now.

Did David Davis just accidentally admit we can halt Brexit?

Josiah Mortimer
24 January, 2018

When the facts change, the public can change their mind…

The role of accountancy firms in Carillion’s collapse is bigger than we thought

Prem Sikka
24 January, 2018

Serious questions need to be asked over the Big Four’s advice to Carillion as a crisis brewed.

I am on trial for disrupting one of the largest arms fairs in the world. Here’s why I did it

Sophia Lysaczenko
23 January, 2018

Sophia Lysaczenko will appear in court on 14 February. She is one of 43 people standing trial over attempts to disrupt the Defence and Security Equipment International fair in September.

Here’s why the Carillion scandal will last for decades

Prem Sikka
23 January, 2018

There is little chance of any speedy conclusion to the Carillion scandal: The liquidation will probably run for a decade or more and is likely to generate millions in fees for accountants and lawyers.

There’s now proof that workers’ power is good for the economy

Natalie Bennett
23 January, 2018

More economic democracy – union power, workers’ rights, decentralisation of and democratic engagement in decision-making – creates better productivity and a stronger, more secure economy.

Poll: majority of MPs believe UK can remain in the single market despite Brexit

Oscar Webb
22 January, 2018

And Labour and Tory MPs disagree with the party leaders on a host of other Brexit issues.

Is this the beginning of the end for the £200bn PFI disaster? It’s been a long time coming

22 January, 2018

“The outsourcing party is over” Labour will promise today – and the call to end PFI is supported by some unlikely figures.

Young people will pay the highest price for Brexit, but there’s more to it than just economics

Richard Corbett
22 January, 2018

Brexit will destroy relationships, sunder families and narrow the outlook of future generations.

If ‘taking back control’ means anything, we need a second referendum on the terms of Brexit

Salman Shaheen
22 January, 2018

It was grossly unclear what people were voting for the first time around.

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