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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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Tory official: Wales and Scotland will lose MPs to England in boundary review

Joe Lo
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England’s south-east, south-west and East will gain the most MPs.

Unlike in New Zealand, people in the UK just don’t trust the government

Natalie Bennett
18 June, 2020

New Zealand’s trust in government is twice as high as in the UK

Secretively-funded think tank takes credit for abolition of aid ministry

Joe Lo
18 June, 2020

They said they’d “chalked up yet another” policy change.

More job cuts blamed on decision to make blue British passports in Poland

Joe Lo
18 June, 2020

The Sun’s blue British passport campaign may have cost up to 500 jobs in Gateshead.

Labour’s strategy on a Brexit deal? Let the Tories flounder

Josiah Mortimer
17 June, 2020

Starmer avoided the issue in PMQs. Labour are picking their battles…

EXCLUSIVE: Major food wholesaler in dispute over alleged trade union victimisation

Josiah Mortimer
17 June, 2020

United Voices of the World say Premier Fruits breached workers’ rights and health and safety legislation.

Backlash grows against decision to abolish DfID

Josiah Mortimer
17 June, 2020

The Tory hardliners have got their way – but at what cost?

In the ruins of the Covid pandemic, we need Big Ideas more than ever

Gill Cookson
17 June, 2020

It’s time to be radical – and say ‘never again’ like we mean it.

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Johnson suggests UK should switch aid from Africa to Eastern Europe

Joe Lo
16 June, 2020

He suggested aid should be used to fight Vladimir Putin.

Why climate movements must stand with George Floyd

Ian Haney Lopez Roger Hallam Nuala Gathercole Lam
16 June, 2020

Of course it’s a moral imperative – but it’s also a strategic necessity.

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