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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.

Manchester completes UK’s first-of-its-kind village to support people out of homelessness

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

The project comes amid rising levels of homelessness in the city.

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