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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Nine new billionaires created due to profits from Covid vaccines, says campaign group
According to the People’s Vaccine Alliance, the nine new billionaires have a combined net wealth of $19.3 billion, enough to fully vaccinate all people in low-income countries 1.3 times.
Anne McLaughlin MP: The Tories are bringing their culture war into law
‘It is kneejerk, populist and fascistic law-making to protect the lies of benevolent imperialism, and it is a dangerous attack on all of our civil liberties.’
Sarah Champion MP: The government is ‘failing the world’s poorest’
‘We desperately need a clear commitment to international development with well targeted aid that listens to the Global South.’
Natalie Bennett: The government’s new green plans are riddled with holes
It’s time to unpick the Tories’ misleading environmental promises.
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, May 2021
Our roundup of the progressive news the media missed.
Andrew Gwynne MP: Tory ‘levelling up’ plans look a lot like cronyism
We need proper scrutiny of the government’s pork-barrel politics.
Wera Hobhouse MP: The Lib Dems’ door is open to a progressive alliance
Parties need to work together to boot out the Tories – and secure PR – writes the Lib Dem MP.
EXCLUSIVE: Third of voters say government’s Covid inquiry is too late
“We shouldn’t have to wait until next year for the inquiry into how coronavirus has been handled,” Caroline Lucas tells LFF.
Jim McMahon MP: How Labour mayors are reversing the blunder of bus privatisation
Next stop, public ownership? Labour figures are adopting the London model to overhaul England’s beleaguered buses.
EXCLUSIVE: Scots have right to another indy referendum, say voters in England
The findings come as Nicola Sturgeon is once against sworn in as First Minister, after voters elected a pro-independence majority.