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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.

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Green Party votes to support family reunification and voting rights for migrants

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11 March, 2023

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Green Party co-leader claims Greens could gain 100 council seats in May

Chris Jarvis
11 March, 2023

Carla Denyer made the claim at the party’s spring conference

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A Tory witch hunt for MPs held responsible for ousting Johnson?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 March, 2023

Has a purge of the Tory ‘moderates’ begun, and how will the Brexit ultras respond to Sunak’s post-Brexit Northern Ireland deal?

Gary Lineker

#ImWithGary: Flood of support for Gary Lineker shows level of public opposition towards government’s ‘morally repugnant’ immigration policy

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 March, 2023

‘Gary speaks for me, not Braverman.’

Ellie Chowns speaking at Green Party Conference
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Green Party sets sights on Tory parliamentary constituency as spring conference opens

Chris Jarvis
11 March, 2023

Ellie Chowns is hoping to unseat a Tory MP in North Herefordshire

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Anti-privatisation campaigners gather in London for huge Keep Our NHS Public demonstration

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 March, 2023

Led by the SOS NHS coalition, the protest involves over 50 campaign groups and unions coming together to demand the government funds the NHS properly, pays NHS staff what they deserve, and ends NHS privatisation.

Braverman
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Suella Braverman roasted over false claim 100 million refugees ‘are coming here’

Basit Mahmood
10 March, 2023

FullFact has looked into Braverman’s claim and says that there is no data to suggest 100 million displaced people are ‘coming to the UK’.

Nigel Farage on GB News
News

GB News loses £30million in first year of broadcasting

Basit Mahmood
10 March, 2023

GB News racked up a pre-tax loss of £30.7m in the year to the end of May 2022.

Question Time
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Question Time audience member ‘absolutely nails’ the real motive behind Tories Illegal Migration Bill

Basit Mahmood
10 March, 2023

They’re forecasting to the next election. They can’t run on their governing record, there’s sewage in the rivers, inflation is through the roof…

Strike Bill

Strikes Bill threatens workers’ protection from unfair dismissal says equalities watchdog

Hannah Davenport
9 March, 2023

‘The Bill raises several human rights considerations’ – latest damning report of Strikes Bill

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