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Woke-bashing of the week: The great Easter ‘outrage’ that wasn’t

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

It’s a depressingly familiar pattern, a carefully framed image, paired with a provocative narrative, travels faster than the truth, especially when it taps into pre-existing grievances about so-called ‘wokeness.’

Right-wing media watch – War, what war? The Express chooses Farage fan adulation over reality

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

Brown’s account of Farage’s campaign stops borders on the reverential. Even anonymous praise from a party candidate, “he’s going to change everything for the better,” is relayed without challenge.

NEET young people with mental health conditions face disproportionate hospitalisation rates, new data shows

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

Disability activists have raised concerns that young disabled people are being unfairly targeted in welfare reforms aimed at pushing more people into work.

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Peter Brown
8 April, 2020

In the middle of the coronavirus crisis, social landlords are hiking rents. The government needs to act swiftly.

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Richard King
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Gill Cookson
8 April, 2020

There’s no going back: low paid workers must be recognised as ‘key workers’ for good, writes Dr Gill Cookson.

Labour members should ditch the politics of labels

Edward Jones
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Words like “Neoliberal” and “Trotskyist” are thrown around too easily.

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Joe Lo
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Road traffic levels have been consistent since the lockdown.

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