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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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‘Stop using my son to attack Black Lives Matter’, Lee Rigby’s mum tells far-right

Joe Lo
4 June, 2020

Lee loved all races in “this great melting pot of a nation”, she said.

The UK’s testing numbers are nothing to be proud of

Joe Lo
4 June, 2020

The UK was slow to start testing large numbers.

Banks risking call centre staff’s lives with work from home bans

Joe Lo
4 June, 2020

Workers are scared.

Parliament for the few: How the government rode roughshod over democracy

Josiah Mortimer
3 June, 2020

Pictured: Tory MP Karen Bradley, speaking out against the shut down of virtual Parliament procedures.

Britain’s racist institutions need to learn that black lives matter

Isaac Oliver
3 June, 2020

On how our justice system is failing black people.

Inside a scandal: The Tories are culpable for a Covid disaster in our care homes

Gill Cookson
3 June, 2020

Recently published documents shed new light on the Tories’ disgraceful handling of coronavirus in the care sector.

UK has granted dozens of riot gear export licenses to the US since 2010

Josiah Mortimer
3 June, 2020

Some of the equipment may be being used to crush Black Lives Matter protests right now.

Prof Prem Sikka: The corporate bailout bill will hurt workers and pensioners

Prem Sikka
2 June, 2020

US companies have used bankruptcy to shed jobs and scrap wage agreements.

Unions are putting ‘work-life balance’ back on the agenda

Tony Burke
2 June, 2020

A big dispute fund has been built up.

George Floyd

In the US and UK, racism is killing BAME people

Jarelle Francis
2 June, 2020

By delaying a report into disproportionate covid deaths, the UK government is displaying contempt for BAME people.

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