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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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Movement spreads across the UK for removal of colonialist statues

Sophia Dourou
9 June, 2020

Here are some of the campaigns to remove or replace effigies of the UK’s controversial historical figures

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How austerity helped fuel the spread of Covid misinformation

Dean Hochlaf
9 June, 2020

Misinformation spreads when government steps back from its role as a purveyor and promoter of public health. A vacuum is created which allows false information to grow.

Far-right football fans are planning to confront BLM protesters in London

Sophia Dourou
8 June, 2020

Football hooligans and the far right will be marching in London on Saturday to face off with anti-racist protesters.

Five shocking stats about police brutality in the UK

Sophia Dourou
8 June, 2020

As Black Lives Matter protests are picking up all around the UK, here are some statistics of the disparate policing of BAME people

Schools must face up to Britain’s colonial past

Amar Raja
8 June, 2020

Teaching a whitewashed history excludes British students from different cultural backgrounds: it ignores the impact of their ancestors.

Wera Hobhouse: The Lib Dems must lead the charge for a new Progressive Alliance

Wera Hobhouse MP
5 June, 2020

The leadership contender sets out her ideas for taking on the Tories.

Radical roundup: 10 stories that got buried this week

Josiah Mortimer
5 June, 2020

Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed.

Beware: The ‘Bring Back Failure’ team is back

Natalie Bennett
5 June, 2020

How many former chancellors does it take to change an economy?

Public bodies prepare for PFI assets to be handed over in a dire state

Josiah Mortimer
5 June, 2020

Shareholders are keen to squeeze as much as they can out of PFI contracts before they’re handed back.

Elites will use this crisis to reshape the state. We have to push back

Prem Sikka
5 June, 2020

We have the money to build a better society after this crisis. But corporations and the right are already undermining our welfare.

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