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Right-Wing Media Watch – ‘Thanks for the publicity’: Care4Calais brilliantly reclaims a Daily Mail ‘hit piece’ 

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

The approach follows a well-worn pattern in the right-wing British press. Humanitarian action reframed as controversy, aid depicted as incentive, and Muslim identity positioned as an additional source of tension.

Manchester completes UK’s first-of-its-kind village to support people out of homelessness

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

The project comes amid rising levels of homelessness in the city.

Four of the worst recent right-wing ‘polls’ and why they’re so misleading

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

The polls that regularly appear on the pages of the right-wing press, frequently rely on loaded questions, selective statistics and audiences already primed to agree with the publication’s editorial position.

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Keir Starmer in the House of Commons

How Keir Starmer is terrified of challenging militarism

Symon Hill
30 June, 2021

It’s been a bad week for Labour ‘defence’ policy, writes Symon Hill.

Socialist Appeal supporter Alex Falconer with Jeremy Corbyn

EXCLUSIVE: Labour CLP vice-chair hits out at ‘purge’ after being expelled for supporting Marxist group

Josiah Mortimer
29 June, 2021

“There is very clearly a purge going on. Starmer is worried that many members want him gone.”

How racism in the criminal justice system harms women’s chances of finding work

LFF Reporter
29 June, 2021

Black women with criminal records face harsher barriers to employment, a new report has found.

Power to the pedestrians: High Court dismisses landmark anti-Low Traffic Neighbourhood case

Josiah Mortimer
29 June, 2021

“There is nothing irrational about consulting a cycling organisation about measures to encourage cycling,” the judge said, in a withering put-down.

Natalie Bennett: HMS Defender, Russia, and the questions that need answering

Natalie Bennett
29 June, 2021

Was this Johnson’s dangerous attempt to look big on the world stage?

Polling station sign

Fake Labour leaflet claiming party opposes ‘whiteness’ takes Batley and Spen campaign to new lows

Lucy Skoulding
28 June, 2021

A leaflet is being distributed in Batley and Spen which has all the hallmarks of a right-wing smear campaign

Extinction Rebellion dumps 7 tons of horse manure outside Daily Mail offices in protest

Lucy Skoulding
28 June, 2021

XR was protesting how 68% of the UK’s print media is owned by 4 billionaires

Priti Patel

Priti Patel’s plans to hold asylum seekers abroad deemed ‘cowardly’ and ‘inhumane’

Lucy Skoulding
28 June, 2021

‘These cash-for-people plans are a cowardly, barbaric and inhumane way to treat refugees fleeing war and persecution,’ said Refugee Action’s CEO

GB News gets fewer viewing figures than Welsh language version of kids’ TV show

Lucy Skoulding
28 June, 2021

Andrew Neil’s new channel is getting a lot of criticism online after last week’s figures have been shared

Survivors of domestic common assault only given six months to report it to the police – or face it ‘timing out’

Alexandra Warren
27 June, 2021

Three organisations have launched a campaign to extend the time allotted to 18 months.

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