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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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Would proportional representation in the UK benefit the far right?

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Proportional is clearly more democratic than first-past-the-post. But European far-right shifts and the growth of Reform UK are not good optics.

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Meaningful, long-term change cannot be achieved unless we fix our political system too

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15 October, 2024

Labour won the election with promises to partially reform the Lords, clean up politics, and improve access to elections.

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Up to a dozen Tory MPs consider quitting over Labour’s second job crackdown

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A number of Tory MPs are said to be furious at the proposals and have threated to quit before the next general election.

A photo of people working in an office
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Why Labour’s Employment Rights Bill is the biggest upgrade in workers’ and trade union rights in a generation

Paul Nowak
14 October, 2024

We know that driving up employment standards is good for workers, good for business and good for growth

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Reform UK breaks Commons rules by offering £300 tours of parliament to supporters

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“Ticket holders are being offered a refund.”

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Former Tory MP put £57 worth of teddy bears on expenses

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The bears were to be given out to children who asked the best questions in a Q&A session with Mr Levy.’

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Robert Jenrick denies he would drop hard-right policies if he became Tory leader

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Jenrick has made pulling Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights a major part of his campaign,

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‘Barbieland’ and the rise of the far-right in Europe

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 October, 2024

To maintain the democratic values that the EU was built on, leaders like Starmer must reject the normalisation of xenophobia and work towards a more inclusive and unified society.

Keir Starmer speaking at Labour Conference
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Buds of change

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Labour’s next task is to address the maladies that have scarred the country for the last decade and beyond

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Viktor Orbán is taken apart in European Parliament and told he’s the ‘useful idiot of Russia and China’

Basit Mahmood
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“What a fraud, what a burden for your people, Mr Orban please step down to make Hungary great again.”

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