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Woke-bashing of the week: The great Easter ‘outrage’ that wasn’t

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

It’s a depressingly familiar pattern, a carefully framed image, paired with a provocative narrative, travels faster than the truth, especially when it taps into pre-existing grievances about so-called ‘wokeness.’

Right-wing media watch – War, what war? The Express chooses Farage fan adulation over reality

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

Brown’s account of Farage’s campaign stops borders on the reverential. Even anonymous praise from a party candidate, “he’s going to change everything for the better,” is relayed without challenge.

NEET young people with mental health conditions face disproportionate hospitalisation rates, new data shows

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

Disability activists have raised concerns that young disabled people are being unfairly targeted in welfare reforms aimed at pushing more people into work.

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Hamilton by-election winner Labour’s Davy Russell hits out at “poison of Reform”

Olivia Barber
6 June, 2025

“This community has also sent a message to Farage and his mob tonight.”

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Billionaire Reform UK treasurer under pressure to deliver on donation promises

Olivia Barber
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And both Reform’s chair and a member of their ‘Doge’ cost-cutting team resigned last night…

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‘Where’s your boat, Nigel?’: Hope not Hate asks why Reform leader has failed to declare commercial fishing vessel in register of interests

Basit Mahmood
5 June, 2025

How long has Farage been sailing the high seas? Did he buy the boat himself or was it a gift? And why has he chosen not to record this memorable maritime investment in the register of interests?”

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Liz Truss responds furiously to Mel Stride criticising her disastrous mini-budget

Olivia Barber
5 June, 2025

Truss has hit out at the shadow chancellor, claiming: “Nothing will change with people like him in charge”

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Humiliation for Badenoch as less than half of Tory voters say she is likely to still be leader at next general election

Basit Mahmood
5 June, 2025

After the Tory party’s dire performance in the local elections last month, where it failed to retain any of the 15 councils that they previously controlled, pressure has grown on Badenoch.

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Reform chair calls Sarah Pochin’s burqa ban question at PMQs “dumb”

Olivia Barber
5 June, 2025

“I do think it’s dumb for a party to ask the PM if they would do something the party itself wouldn’t do.”

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Labour extends free school meals to 500,000 more children

Basit Mahmood
5 June, 2025

‘Feeding more children every day, for free, is one of the biggest interventions we can make to put more money in parents’ pockets, tackle the stain of poverty, and set children up to learn.’

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Reform threatens to cut council workers’ pensions while amassing big pension pots for themselves

Olivia Barber
5 June, 2025

Farage said he will still claim his £73,000 per year European Parliament pension, yet Reform is going after council workers’ pensions

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