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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
Today

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
Today

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
Today

Stonewall’s corporate donations more than halved over the past year.

Trump

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Children at school development centre

Charities call for ‘complete reform’ of childcare system, including better pay for professionals

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 May, 2023

‘Childcare holds the power to tackle disadvantage by enabling parents to work and boosting children’s outcomes. But this opportunity is being missed and new government investment risks entrenching rather than changing an unequal system,’ says the JRF.

Express headline

Eurosceptic media mocked for ‘Brexit victory’ gushing over car plant deal

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 May, 2023

‘Having to pay £500m isn’t a win, it’s another cost of Brexit. Where are those extra maths lessons?’

Murdoch's private jet

The Sun forgets its owner’s taste for luxury travel in dig at Rachel Reeves’ business class flight to US

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 May, 2023

The newspaper didn’t dwell on Rupert Murdoch owning an $84 million private jet.

Right-Wing Watch

Right-wing ramp up ideological war on civil servants

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 May, 2023

A competent government should be capable of crisis management. But what we have seen in 13 years of Tory rule has been the complete opposite.

Peston and Farage

Farage announces more Brexit ‘regrets,’ while hinting at a potential political return

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 May, 2023

The former Brexit Party leader also said he would have accepted worker shortages to reduce net migration.

Brexit and EU
News

Chart sums up how much of a failure Brexit has been

Basit Mahmood
26 May, 2023

Even former UKIP leader Nigel Farage had to concede that the decision to leave the EU had been a failure

water pollution
Opinion

Here’s why privatisation of the water industry has failed and why public ownership is needed

Prem Sikka
26 May, 2023

‘The rot set in 1989, when the Conservative government privatised ten state-owned regional water boards’

A drawing of a human head with a range of mental health issues written inside it
Opinion

To tackle suicide rates and improve mental health, men need to talk about masculinity

Adam Allnutt
26 May, 2023

Masculinity is not strength, is the false impression of confidence and it what drives some in a bad place.

Just stop oil
Opinion

Wera Hobhouse MP: ‘The Public Order Act has ‘no place in our society’

Wera Hobhouse MP
26 May, 2023

‘The Home Secretary needs to accept that The Public Order Act was a complete misstep and order a review of the legislation’

Jeremy Hunt
News

Jeremy Hunt says he is comfortable with Britain being plunged into recession

Basit Mahmood
26 May, 2023

‘These lot have absolutely lost it.’

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