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Police found ‘no evidence’ of family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election after Reform complaint

Olivia Barber
Today

‘Farage is a bad loser’

Matt Goodwin, Reform's candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election

Woke-bashing of the week: GB News turns culture-war punditry into ‘literally insight’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

Well, it is GB News, what did we expect?

Right-Wing Media Watch – ‘Thanks for the publicity’: Care4Calais brilliantly reclaims a Daily Mail ‘hit piece’ 

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

The approach follows a well-worn pattern in the right-wing British press. Humanitarian action reframed as controversy, aid depicted as incentive, and Muslim identity positioned as an additional source of tension.

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News

Right-wing press spins more Brexit hypocrisy over Spain’s proposed 100% tax on non-EU property purchases  

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 January, 2025

‘The Spanish holiday villa dream is over, thanks to Brexit.’

Right-wing media watch – Tory press’s overblown hypocrisy on Reeves’ budget

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 January, 2025

The Tories and their supporting press, seem to have forgotten the catastrophic fallout from Liz Truss’s fiscal plans in the autumn of 2022, which sent the gilts market into freefall and catapulted the UK’s pensions industry into chaos.

Right-Wing Watch

Are climate politics about to go into reverse?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 January, 2025

The rise of climate-sceptic populist figures both in the UK and abroad, puts climate action at risk of being side-lined in favour of regressive, anti-environmental politics that could undo years of hard-fought progress.

News

Devolution dispute heats up in High Peak over future council structure

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 January, 2025

‘Greater Manchester has the fastest growing economy in the UK. When you look at key economic indicators, like travel to work areas, all High Peak points towards the Northwest.’

News

Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, hopes to save Canada from populism

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 January, 2025

Carney reportedly saw the Bank of England position as a stepping stone for his political ambitions in Canada when Trudeau stood down.

Labour leader Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves reading papers
Opinion

Labour hasn’t delivered growth or happiness. It needs an economic reset.

Prem Sikka
17 January, 2025

Successive governments have tailored economic and tax policies to impoverish the masses

Cai Wilshaw

Labour activist tears apart Elon Musk leaving GB News panellists shocked

Basit Mahmood
17 January, 2025

“It is almost treasonous to suggest that Musk should be welcomed into UK politics with open arms to subvert our democracy.”

A photo of lorries
News

Manufacturing workers to strike after bosses reject demand for £1 pay rise

Olivia Barber
17 January, 2025

‘It’s time for company bosses to get back around the table and deliver the goods.’

pubs

Andrew Ranger MP: Why it’s time to extend licensing hours for pubs

Andrew Ranger
17 January, 2025

The Labour Party, as the natural champion of the local, has more to do to fix those smaller-scale licensing problems, but also, at the national level, to drive down operating and energy costs

A photo of Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party speaking at Prime Minister's Questions
News

Badenoch mocked for ‘bonkers’ idea of means-testing the state pension triple-lock

Olivia Barber
17 January, 2025

‘There’s being bold and there’s being plain bonkers’

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