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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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Keir Starmer pledges to ‘smash the class ceiling’

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

“There may have been times in the recent past where Labour was afraid to speak the language of class at all – but not my Labour Party.”

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15-year wage stagnation has left average earnings £230 a week lower than their pre-financial crisis trend

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The good news of today doesn’t make up for 15 years of unprecedented wage stagnation.

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‘Modest’ wealth tax on richest 0.3% could raise more than £10bn for public services, says TUC

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The trade union body has set out options for taxing the small number of individuals with wealth over £3 million, £5 million and £10 million

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Over a third of England’s homes will be at high risk of overheating as temperatures reach new extremes, think tank warns

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The report also warns that when it comes to work, older workers are a particular risk of heat stress

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Number of ethnic minority workers in insecure jobs rises by 132% since 2011

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

BME workers account for two thirds of the growth of insecure workers in this period – despite BME workers making up just 14% of the overall workforce. 

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Chart sums up perfectly just how bad Britain’s economy is under the Tories

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

It comes as a leading economic think tank warned that the UK is on course to experience five years of “lost” economic growth and is at risk of a recession next year.

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How the Sun’s anti-net zero campaign is linked to a lobby group funded by the freight and haulage industry

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

What the Sun also fails to mention is that its five-point manifesto bears a striking resemblance to the ‘five core campaign objectives’ of FairFuelUK

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Cartoons not cruelty: Calls grow to restore cartoons at children’s asylum centres

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 August, 2023

Artists are on standby, offering to paint the cartoons back in at no expense to the taxpayer.

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Migrants removed from ‘deathtrap’ barge, as government faces huge backlash over latest hostile immigration policy

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 August, 2023

‘This is yet another example of an ill-thought-out, knee-jerk reaction to the government’s own backlog of asylum claims.’

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Government data confirms Brexit as a main driver of exports decline

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 August, 2023

More than a third of businesses say their prospects for growth in 2023 have been hampered by a decline in demand for British goods because of Brexit.

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