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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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Who is Nick Candy? The latest Tory to defect to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

Olivia Barber
11 December, 2024

Candy, a billionaire property developer and former Tory donor, has become Reform’s new treasurer.

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GB News broadcasts half of all UK stories about Muslims, study finds

Basit Mahmood
10 December, 2024

Researchers warned that the overwhelmingly negative coverage of Islam and Muslims on GB News ‘potentially fuelled community tensions and contributed to civil unrest’.

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Shell backs down on million pound Greenpeace lawsuit and agrees to charity donation settlement

Olivia Barber
10 December, 2024

‘This kind of stunt at sea is a serious risk to safety and life’

Voting Ballot Box
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2024 General Election saw voters switch between parties at highest rate since 1931

Basit Mahmood
10 December, 2024

Increased voter volatility has meant that this was the first UK election where four parties received over 10% of the vote,

A headshot of politician Margaret Hodge smiling
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Margaret Hodge takes on anti-corruption champion role to tackle flow of dirty money

Olivia Barber
10 December, 2024

Lammy says the government will make the UK ‘a hostile environment for the corrupt’

Farage
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Nigel Farage makes sixth trip to US since being elected MP so that he can headline MAGA fundraiser

Basit Mahmood
10 December, 2024

Is he ever in his constituency?

Keir Starmer speaking at Labour Conference
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Labour should mobilise progressive majority to win future elections, new Compass report says

Olivia Barber
10 December, 2024

The think tank has warned Labour should focus on building on the progressive majority, rather than courting centre-right voters

Suella Braverman
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Suella Braverman’s husband defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

Basit Mahmood
9 December, 2024

“I’m not defecting to ­Reform … This is the 21st century and not the 18th — my husband does not speak for me nor does he control my political affiliations.

Canary Wharf
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The government shouldn’t pin all of its hopes for economic growth on the finance industry

Prem Sikka
9 December, 2024

Such a strategy was tried in 1970s and came to grief in the mid-1970s secondary banking crash.

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Trade unions call on government to act on manifesto promise to strengthen statutory sick pay

Olivia Barber
9 December, 2024

Union leaders stress that
statutory sick pay in the UK is ‘set at one of the lowest levels in the industrialised world’

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