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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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Basit Mahmood
30 August, 2024

‘This is grossly offensive from someone who sat at the Tory cabinet table just months ago.’

Keir Starmer outside Number 10 Downing Street

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Prem Sikka
30 August, 2024

The government is continuing with Tory policies which would deepen despair and push more people into the arms of right-wing extremists.

JAGS

Outsourced cleaners at £24,000-a-year private school who had pay unlawfully slashed by 12% secure pay deal

Basit Mahmood
30 August, 2024

When their pay was unlawfully slashed by 12%, taking it to a lower rate of £11.55 per hour, the cleaners voted unanimously to strike

Rachel Reeves

IFS backs Rachel Reeves’s claim that Labour inherited a worse financial situation than expected

Basit Mahmood
29 August, 2024

So much for the Tories being the party of ‘sound finances’.

Brexit

The government shouldn’t ignore workers’ rights in post-Brexit trade deals

Tony Burke
29 August, 2024

Trade unions must be consulted and have a seat at the table

Brexit

Majority of Britons say that the negatives of Brexit have outweighed the benefits

Basit Mahmood
29 August, 2024

It comes as Prime Minister Keir Starmer set out his desire to reset relations with the EU

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Chris Jarvis
28 August, 2024

Young LGBT+ workers report facing higher levels of discrimination at work

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Majority of Tory members believe merger with Reform would lead to election victory

Basit Mahmood
28 August, 2024

That so many party members think a merger with Nigel Farage’s Reform would lead to an election victory tells you all you need to know about what kind of future the Tory party is headed for.

RishI Sunak

Labour cancels Sunak’s ‘wasteful’ £40m VIP helicopter contract

Basit Mahmood
28 August, 2024

The decision to not renew the tender process for that contract has been taken to ensure that the government is getting value for money for taxpayers.”

Liz Truss

Liz Truss ‘considered scrapping all NHS cancer treatment after crashing economy’, new book claims

Basit Mahmood
28 August, 2024

‘Aides ‘lost the plot’ when they heard of Truss’ plan to scrap cancer treatment on the NHS.’

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