Woke-bashing of the week: GB News turns culture-war punditry into ‘literally insight’
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’
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.
Manchester completes UK’s first-of-its-kind village to support people out of homelessness
The project comes amid rising levels of homelessness in the city.
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Government urged to prioritise refugees’ lives after ‘deadliest year’ for Channel crossings
‘The journey across the English Channel in a small boat has always been perilous. But in 2024 it became more deadly.’
Former Tory MP Jonathan Gullis complains he still can’t find a job after voters dumped him
‘I would have a little sympathy if he didn’t vote against feeding hungry school children’
Reform MP’s firm raked in over £100,000 in taxpayer-funded furlough cash despite making £7.9million profit
‘The company recorded a “£7.9million pre-tax profit in 2021 – with a further £2.65million in 2022.’
Elon Musk calls for Tommy Robinson to be freed in flurry of posts on X
Musk has used his social media platform to call for the far-right figurehead to be released from prison.
Reform UK MPs’ biggest gaffes since being elected
Spoiler alert: They made some pretty big blunders
Jamie Stone MP on Christmas, the Troubles and the Good Friday Agreement
Lib Dem MP Jamie Stone recalls a Christmas 35 years ago
Food banks at Christmas: ‘They’re thinking about having enough food, not celebrating’
A food bank manager and research and policy director at Trussell speak to Left Foot Forward about food bank use at Christmas.
Fran Heathcote: proposed 2.8% civil service pay rise ‘not anywhere near enough’
Left Foot Forward spoke to PCS and the FDA about the government’s recommended 2.8% pay rise for civil servants.
Financial strain threatens nursing profession, as tens of thousands of student nurses consider pulling out
An estimated 32,000 student nurses could drop out of their courses in coming years because of declining pay after graduation.
T’was the Puritans wot done it: The ‘Right’s 10 most absurd Christmas cancelled claims’
In the strange world that is GB News and their ilk, where conspiracy theories and outrage are always just around the corner, they would love to cast themselves as the cavaliers against woke roundheads. As ever, reality, and history come to that, is never that simple.