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Thames Water fine reprieve sparks outrage over “rewarding failure”

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

“This nonsense must be, should be, has to be and will be opposed.”

A picture of the Thames Water logo

Woke-bashing of the week: The great Easter ‘outrage’ that wasn’t

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

It’s a depressingly familiar pattern, a carefully framed image, paired with a provocative narrative, travels faster than the truth, especially when it taps into pre-existing grievances about so-called ‘wokeness.’

Right-wing media watch – War, what war? The Express chooses Farage fan adulation over reality

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

Brown’s account of Farage’s campaign stops borders on the reverential. Even anonymous praise from a party candidate, “he’s going to change everything for the better,” is relayed without challenge.

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Woke bashing of the week: Font wars – Times New Roman strikes back

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
21 December, 2025

Place your bets now. In 2026, don’t be surprised if we’re reading headlines about “woke” fonts being purged from Reform-run councils altogether.

Right-wing media watch: One last swing at Ed! The right-wing press keeps missing the climate point

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
21 December, 2025

This familiar trope persists in the right-wing media – reduce climate policy to sneering attacks on Ed Miliband and avoid engaging with the substance of the argument.

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News

Spain’s €60 nationwide transport pass sparks UK debate over Europe’s costliest rail fares

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
21 December, 2025

Britain’s train operators charge fares more than twice the European Union average for routes of comparable length.

News

Why the Telegraph’s ‘Labour Christmas bonus’ story doesn’t add up

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 December, 2025

To present a frozen £10 payment, worth a fraction of its original value, as indulgence is another example of grievance-mongering dressed up as journalism.

Right-Wing Watch

Pipe bombs and chicken nuggets: how fake news became ‘fact’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 December, 2025

From Trump to Fox News, Johnson to Fleet Street, misinformation is not a series of isolated failures. It’s a business model, one that rewards outrage, punishes accuracy and treats the public not as citizens to be informed, but as audiences to be manipulated.

News

Erasmus returns, and with it, the familiar sound of Brexiteer outrage

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 December, 2025

Even readers of the Express, often dubbed the Brexpress, were not entirely convinced by their paper’s fury.

Reform Mayoral Candidate Chris Parry
News

Reform’s Chris Parry found to have repeatedly questioned ‘loyalty’ of MPs who aren’t white

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025

The Reform mayoral candidate made the comments about Sadiq Khan, Zarah Sultana, Dawn Butler and others

A photo of a ballot box
News

Which party has won the most council by-elections since the May 2025 local elections?

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025

Who’s up and who’s down?

A photo of Palestinian flags on poles
Opinion

Why councillors should pledge for Palestine

Alexi Dimond
19 December, 2025

Alexi Dimond makes the case for councillors pushing to ensure their councils aren’t complicit in Israel’s crimes

David Lammy
News

Almost one in ten MPs have called for David Lammy to intervene to ensure hunger strikers’ human rights are upheld

Chris Jarvis
19 December, 2025

62 MPs have added their names

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