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

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 May, 2025

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

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.”

Smear of the week – Telegraph’s tizzy over Sadiq Khan dropping pronouns on X profile

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
9 February, 2025

So much for a juicy scandal.

Right-Wing Media Watch – Murdoch media goes all out attacking environmentalists

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 February, 2025

The return of Trump – a notorious climate change sceptic – seems to have emboldened the Murdoch media’s climate attack dogs.

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Right-Wing Media Watch – Tory press panics over Labour’s positive signals on closer EU ties

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 February, 2025

Despite Brexit’s clear, ongoing failures, some Brexiteers and their cheerleading press are still clinging to the myth of its success, accusing the so-called ‘Rejoiner elite’ of plotting a return to Brussels.

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