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Woke-bashing of the week – Express jumps on alleged cricket fan fury at ‘woke’ Syrian art exhibition at Lord’s

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

It’s a familiar editorial pattern in the right-wing media, isolate a dissenting voice, amplify it, and present it as emblematic of a larger cultural shift under siege.

Right-Wing Media Watch: “The Murdoch empire is terrified” – Polanski hits back at Sun’s Grand National smear

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

No wonder the Murdoch empire is terrified.

Scotland opens second ‘housing village’ to help people transition out of homelessness

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

The development follows a similar scheme in Manchester amid growing efforts to tackle homelessness through community-based, supported housing.

A homeless person sheltering under a concrete wall

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Spain approves undocumented migrant amnesty policy, breaking with Europe’s migration crackdown

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 April, 2026 (2 days ago)

The aim is to bring those already embedded in Spanish society into the formal economy, ensuring they can work legally, contribute taxes, and access protections.

Right-Wing Watch

Viktor Orbán’s defeat exposes Reform’s fragile benchmark

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 April, 2026 (2 days ago)

Beyond Hungary, the result may point to something broader. Across Europe, parts of the populist right appear to be encountering limits and have, dare we say it, peaked.

News

UK’s official return to Erasmus+ widely welcome as a step towards renewed opportunity

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 April, 2026 (2 days ago)

“It certainly destroys the ‘Little England’ outlook.”

A photo of a ballot box
Opinion

Could York lead the way on proportional representation?

Celine Barry
17 April, 2026 (3 days ago)

Labour and Lib Dem councillors in York unanimously supported a motion to replace First Past the Post with proportional representation

Grenfell

Successive governments have failed to learn lessons of Grenfell Tragedy

Prem Sikka
17 April, 2026 (3 days ago)

The conditions that facilitated the tragedy remain unchecked

Shabana Mahmood
Opinion

We need to end the hostile environment, not create a moral panic against LGBT asylum seekers

Alex Powell
17 April, 2026 (3 days ago)

Government policies are creating the conditions through which unethical actors can profit

Richard Tice goes on lengthy rant about an investigation into his taxes
Opinion

5 Reform UK disasters this week

Olivia Barber
17 April, 2026 (3 days ago)

From Richard Tice failing to pay tax, to Nigel Farage promoting a cryptocurrency firm, Reform’s leadership continues to show where its interests lie

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