Woke-bashing of the week: GB News turns culture-war punditry into ‘literally insight’
Well, it is GB News, what did we expect?
Right-Wing Media Watch – ‘Thanks for the publicity’: Care4Calais brilliantly reclaims a Daily Mail ‘hit piece’
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
The project comes amid rising levels of homelessness in the city.
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School leaders say government has ‘prioritised purse strings over nation’s children’
The government has pledged less than a tenth of the cash that the former schools catch-up tsar had requested.
Mary Kelly Foy MP: Why we must oppose the new detention centre for asylum-seeking women
‘Hassockfield Immigration Removal Centre is significant not just because of the trauma it will cause for the women imprisoned there, but because of what it represents.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, June 2021
What got spiked this week?
Union Jack must be flown for Prince Andrew’s birthday, government advice says
He stepped back as a working Royal following the Epstein revelations. Why do we need to celebrate his birthday?
Revealed: NHS deal with private firms during pandemic was expensive flop
Private hospitals barely provided any beds for Covid patients – but they still netted millions in public cash.
Tories hint at secret corporate courts in UK-Australia trade deal
The plans could allow Australian energy firms to sue the UK for taking climate action.
PM’s Catholic wedding ceremony triggers constitutional questions
Is Boris Johnson now a Catholic in the eyes of Britain’s bizarre constitution?
Climate emergency: Extinction Rebellion reveals protest plans for Cornwall’s G7 Summit
XR activists are urging the leaders meeting at Carbis Bay in Cornwall to act ‘immediately’ to address the climate and ecological emergency.
Universal Credit: Ministers slammed by MPs after rejecting ALL recommendations for change
“There is now nearly two years’ extra weight of evidence that the delay in providing a first payment is causing real hardship.”
How London’s media is failing to understand Scotland
The UK media’s coverage before and after the Holyrood election shows a lack of understanding of Scotland