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

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

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
Today

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
Today

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

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Workers to get right to request four-day week under Labour’s workers’ rights overhaul

Basit Mahmood
30 August, 2024

In reforms designed to shift the balance of power from companies to workers, a system of “compressed hours”, which lets an employee work their contracted week’s hours in four days rather than five, will be included in the package of new rights for workers.

Esther McVey common sense tsar

Esther McVey condemned for comparing smoking ban with Nazi Germany

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

The government must abandon Tory policies and give people hope

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

LGBT+ Pride flag
News

Shocking new data shows the scale of workplace bullying towards LGBT+ staff

Chris Jarvis
28 August, 2024

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

Conservative Party rosette

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.”

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