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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
Today

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
Today

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
Today

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

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Woke-bashing of the week – The Mail’s culture war catch of the day, blaming octopuses on ‘woke’ conservation

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
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“What on earth has woke got to do with it?”

Right-wing media watch: The Sun places fear over facts once again, in painful-to-read anti-migrant slur

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
15 June, 2025

What’s missing is any semblance of balance, compassion, or fact-based context.

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The real scam isn’t immigration — it’s the Daily Mail’s narrative

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
15 June, 2025

“Gutter press for the gullible.”

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Why Finland has the best education system in the world

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 June, 2025

Instead of national exams, teachers in Finland assess students on an individual basis using their own grading systems.

Right-Wing Watch

Silicon Valley to Westminster: How the tech-right’s crypto crusade is crossing the Atlantic

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 June, 2025

These ideas are no longer confined to obscure books or fringe tech summits, they’re entering mainstream politics.

Andy Burnham
News

Andy Burnham backs living income campaign for Greater Manchester

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 June, 2025

“If you set people up to succeed, they will succeed. We are saying to the government, let us here in Greater Manchester rethink the entire benefits system and turn it from a negative deficit model that’s trying to see the worst in people into an empowering system that builds people up rather than knocks them down.”

Rachel Reeves delivering her spending review this afternoon
Opinion

Labour is failing to reverse years of austerity for local government

Tom Brake MP
13 June, 2025

‘More than a decade of central government-imposed austerity on local councils looks set to continue.’

Kemi Badenoch being interviewed by the BBC's Chris Mason
News

Kemi Badenoch slammed for being ‘on the side of oil and gas giants’

Olivia Barber
13 June, 2025

The Tory leader will use a speech today to call for an end to the windfall tax and to lift the ban on new oil and gas licences

Zia Yusuf
News

Tories call for watchdog to probe Reform UK’s ‘Doge’ data requests

Olivia Barber
13 June, 2025

‘I believe that the scale of such unauthorised data transfers across local government is a cyber-security disaster waiting to happen’

Reform UK
News

New Reform UK director Charlton Edwards shared conspiracy theory and far right content online

Basit Mahmood
13 June, 2025

Reform’s mask slips again…

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