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Daily Mail brutally mocked for ‘Day the Brexit Dream Died’ headline

Basit Mahmood
20 May, 2025 (2 days ago)

The latest deal with the EU gives the UK a number of wins, not only on food exports but will also mean that Brits will no longer have to queue for long periods at EU airports and ports.

Right-wing media watch – Starmer’s immigration crackdown will never appease the right-wing press

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 May, 2025 (5 days ago)

No matter how hard Labour tries to demonstrate control over immigration, the right-wing media will keep moving the goalposts, and will almost always favour the headline-grabbing provocateur that is Nigel Farage. 

Nigel Farage Reform UK manifesto
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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK ‘manifesto’ branded “unserious” and “unhinged”

Olivia Barber
12 May, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

The Economist has called Farage’s economic plans “a disaster”

Right-wing media watch – Immigration panic drowns out UK/India trade deal

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 May, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

You might expect that with a UK/India trade deal having been seen as one of the crown jewels of post-EU independence, the pro-Brexit media would be celebrating its arrival after more than three years of negotiations across successive governments.

Woke-bashing of the week – Trump’s authoritarian crackdown on universities championed by the Mail

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 April, 2025 (4 weeks ago)

The article predictably enlists a cast of familiar right-wing voices to make the case for British universities to follow Trump’s lead.

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Tories and right-wing press outraged over appointment of new Charity Commission chief

Olivia Barber
16 April, 2025

The Daily Mail isn’t happy because Mark Simms mocked Boris Johnson six years ago

Woke-bashing of the week – Naval academy forced to remove 400 books in DEI purge

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 April, 2025

Meanwhile, on our side of the pond, the right’s crusade against ‘woke’ culture in the armed forces also hit a setback this week, when ministers scrapped a Tory-initiated review into military ‘wokeism’

Woke-bashing of the week – Daily Mail claims ‘tens of thousands’ quit National Trust for ‘anti-woke’ rival

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 April, 2025

The right’s ongoing fixation on the National Trust reared its head again this week.

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Right-wing media fumes over ‘pay gap reversal’ while conveniently ignoring wider gender pay inequality

Olivia Barber
3 March, 2025

The gender pay gap between men and women remains at 13%

Right-Wing Media Watch – Mail on Sunday’s incredulous frontpage assault on the ‘thought police’  

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 March, 2025

“It isn’t the thought police if she expressed those thoughts in writing and published that writing on social media.”

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