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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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Bob Stewart
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Tory MP charged with racially abusing activist

Basit Mahmood
6 June, 2023

Stewart was filmed last year telling a Bahraini dissident who was imprisoned and tortured for his human rights activism in the country to ‘go back to Bahrain’

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News

Universal Basic Income trialled in England for first time

Basit Mahmood
5 June, 2023

Our society is going to require some form of basic income in the coming years, given the tumult of climate change, tech disruption and industrial transition that lies ahead.

Nigel Farage
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Nigel Farage is roasted over his ‘desperate’ attempt to get paid subscribers

Basit Mahmood
5 June, 2023

“The grifter keep on grifting … why am I not surprised.”

Mick Lynch
News

Mick Lynch makes journalists look clueless yet again

Basit Mahmood
5 June, 2023

‘If I have a strike and nobody knows it’s happened and it’s had no effect whatsoever, I’m wasting my members’’ time’

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Opinion

Why we must reduce the reliance of political parties on a small group of wealthy donors

Lord Rennard
5 June, 2023

We need to change the regulation of Party Finance, says Lib Dem Peer Lord Rennard.

NHS strikes

NHS staff pay dispute continues following government’s ‘in no way good enough’ pay rise

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 June, 2023

 ‘Nursing staff are fighting for their patients, and the very future of our NHS – not just for their pay.’

Rees-Mogg

Rees-Mogg mocked for saying Brexit allows us to lower food prices

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 June, 2023

The Tory MP revisited the popular referencing among Brexiteers of the repealing of the Corn Laws in the mid-nineteenth century.

Schofield scandal

Phillip Schofield hysteria slammed as ‘shameless distraction’ from government failings

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 June, 2023

The extraordinary row involving the Covid inquiry has been notably dwarfed in the media by the ITV controversy.

Right-Wing Watch

Will the Right successfully create a backlash against Net Zero?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 June, 2023

Criticism of Net Zero in Britain is rife among prominent right-wingers, but will the public buy it?

Chris Patten
News

Tory peer Chris Patten labelled ‘woke’ for evisceration of Brexit on Question Time

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 June, 2023

The former Tory chairman delivered a searing attack on Brexit, leaving right-wingers’ fuming.

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