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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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Hannah Davenport
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Tory Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson is being sued by man who runs foodbank charity

Basit Mahmood
14 February, 2023

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14 February, 2023

“Yes, we suffered much more. A bit of that is that we have this larger financial sector. But I think it really goes back to Brexit.”

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Hannah Davenport
14 February, 2023

End to long and ‘bitter’ dispute after London bus drivers accept pay offer and improved conditions

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Treasury spent £3,000 of taxpayers’ cash on fine art photographs while the rest of us are told to ‘tighten our belts’

Basit Mahmood
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Spending on government-issued “credit cards”, also known as Government Procurement Cards, has risen 70% since 2010.

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Rishi Sunak’s claim that Just Stop Oil ‘bankrolls the Labour Party’ is proven to be false

Basit Mahmood
13 February, 2023

Sunak made the claim at PMQs

Rachel Reeves
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Labour must use its growth mission to reshape Britain

Tom Collinge
13 February, 2023

‘The question of how we raise the funds for our ambitious plans will be absolutely critical to the success of a Starmer government.’

Lee Anderson
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Tory Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson slammed ‘over link to white supremacists’

Basit Mahmood
13 February, 2023

Anderson is facing further condemnation for his links to Nazi-supporting members of a scooter club.

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Daily Mail and Express report fake asylum seeker hotel costs

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 February, 2023

With a media that doesn’t hold back in printing anti-immigration stories designed to fan the flames of hatred, using the most inflated figures possible to report on asylum and refugee resettlement in the UK, comes as no surprise.

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Government refuses to sack Australian trade advisor Tony Abbott for joining climate-sceptic think-tank

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 February, 2023

‘Talking tough on climate action while filling your Board of Trade with people like Abbott is a dismal signal to the world about Britain’s climate leadership.’

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