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Woke-bashing of the week: Gingerbread panic, the culture war being manufactured out of crumbs

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

If anything deserves scrutiny, it’s not Tesco’s labelling but the predicable, laborious voices that turn the most negligible of changes into a full-blown culture war.

Right-wing media watch: In branding Zack Polanski a ‘creep,’ Sarah Vine scrapes the barrel and merits the red pen

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

This isn’t political critique, it’s dehumanisation.

Gibraltar regains post-Brexit freedom of movement – to the ire of the usual Eurosceptic suspects

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

For pro-Europeans, the deal is long overdue for a community that voted overwhelmingly to remain.

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Brexit
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EXCLUSIVE: Voters want closer ties to the European Union, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
2 December, 2024

The poll findings come after Trump’s win in the U.S. election, with many urging the Labour government to adopt a closer trading relationship with the EU following Trump’s intentions to engage in a trade war.

Nigel Farage on GB News
News

GB News blew £100,000 getting rid of ‘woke’ gender neutral toilets after posting an operating loss of £42.4 million

Basit Mahmood
2 December, 2024

Bosses at the channel are reported to have been so furious at the “woke” bathrooms at their Paddington studio that they spent eye-watering sums to “fix” them.

News

Disability campaigners criticise rail company’s ‘stealth’ ticket office cuts plan

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 December, 2024

‘This is not a minor change, it is a significant one, and the proposed changes need to be urgently U-turned.’

Right-Wing Watch

‘Christmas cancelled’: The growing influence of US Christian right on UK politics and media

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 December, 2024

Tune into GB News (if you dare), and you’d swear Christmas was on the brink of collapse, with its flood of headlines about “banned carols,” Santa volunteers being “sacked,” and “Christian outrage” over drag performances.

energy bills
News

Government urged to launch urgent plan for upgrading heat-leaking homes

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 December, 2024

The ‘government needs to go “much further and fast” on its forthcoming Warm Homes Plan’

News

‘Incredibly desperate’: General election petition draws criticism and ridicule

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 November, 2024

‘Funny, they didn’t seem so impressed with the petition that 6 million of us signed demanding that article 50 should be revoked…’

News

#MakeAmazonPay campaign builds momentum on Black Friday weekend

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 November, 2024

“Over 40% of Amazon warehouse workers are injured during peak season. Jeff Bezos is worth $228 billion. Their bodies, his bank account. It’s time to #MakeAmazonPay.”

Car manufacturing
News

Brexit wrecks UK car industry as figures show worsening production

Basit Mahmood
29 November, 2024

‘If you’re not in the EU, you’re at a major disadvantage’

A photo of the House of Commons
News

How every MP voted on the Assisted Dying Bill

Chris Jarvis
29 November, 2024

MPs have voted for the Assisted Dying Bill with a substantial majority

Opinion

Whatever happened to the ‘rule of law’ in the UK?

Prem Sikka
29 November, 2024

Even if people can get access to the courts, at best they will get an interpretation of law, not justice.

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