28-10-2025 14:24 via theguardian.com

It's the noblest battle of our new free-speech age: Sarah Pochin's anti-woke couch crusade | Marina Hyde

The Reform MP was driven ‘mad’ by the number of black and Asian people on the telly. What totally settled non-issue will her party tackle next?Does it matter what colour the people in a sofa advert are? I can’t help feeling it doesn’t. Certainly, after next month’s budget, our political class might find it has more pressing concerns than skin pigment in fictional families convened to flog you something comfy in chenille. In fact, if some of the even bigger global fi
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