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News Watch: Striking doctors' salaries, Islamophobia against Zohran Mamdani, and Japan's far-right surge Media Storm · Episode

On today’s News Watch:

👉 Doctors strike - do they make £100k?
👉 Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals rampant Islamophobia
👉 What does the Afghan data leak tell us about the UK media’s priorities?
👉 Japan’s far-right surge

🎙️ Your hosts are
@helenawadia.bsky.social &
@mathildamall.bsky.social

LISTEN ⤵️

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What is a woman? Common sense vs culture wars Media Storm · Episode

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨

‘What is a woman?’ The question that has plagued British media and distracted politians for years.

This episode, we ask: why?

🗣️ With @katymontgomerie.com

🎙️ Hosts @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social

Sadly now the AfD is coming back - and the government didn’t ban them like they could’ve under this law, as they (probably accurately) assessed the backlash would be worse

Second this

Any ideas? 👀🙏

What does Hungary’s decision to withdraw from the ICC mean for international law? Should we be worried?

Our Director @tayabali.bsky.social spoke with @mathildamall.bsky.social of Middle East Eye to explain why accountability will win out in the long run.

#Hungary #InternationalLaw #ICC

'Keir Starmer’s Painful Immigration Speech Is a Direct Affront to the Diagnosis He Was Voted in On' The PM's white paper was not the 'evidence-led' policymaking he promised, rather it was 'cheap, short-termist, headline politics', writes Mathilda Mallinson

I measured Starmer’s immigration white paper against his own standards. He found himself wanting.

@bylinetimes.bsky.social

We are back. And we’re coming for Starmer.

Any listeners out there? We’re going live! I’d really love to meet those of you who value what we do at Media Storm (or have no idea what we do but have your own ideas about how the media can improve). Come join us for some fun & fury on 20th May ✨

Israel's foreign minister holds 'secret' meeting with David Lammy | MEE LIVE YouTube video by Middle East Eye

I have even more questions about the secrecy of this meeting in the UK mainstream media, than in government.

So does Mulla, the reporter who broke the news.

In interviewed him on MEE Live 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqAG...

3/ MPs from multiple parties condemned the secret meeting when the news was broken by @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social's Imran Mulla.

Two NGOs even even filed for an arrest warrant for Sa'ar, while he was in the UK.

2/ It marks the first (known) UK visit by an Israeli minister since the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

It also breaks tensions between Lammy and Israel over Israel's refusal of entry to two Labour MPs.

1/ Why did UK media not pick up this story? Of all mainstream outlets it only made the Guardian, oddly a full 24 hours later.

A secret meeting in London between UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and Israel's Foreign Affairs minister Gideon Sa'ar 👉 This *should* have been a major political story...

Having excluded all trans people from proceedings before it, the Supreme Court decides in favour of For Some Women Scotland.

Huge, if true.

@bylinetimes.bsky.social

Media Storm Investigates: Are Universities Protecting Predatory Professors? Universities have turned the complaints process into a 'warning not to challenge the behaviour of men and the institutions that protect them', reports Mathilda Mallinson

Situation A: 14 abuse allegations against one male professor result in him staying and multiple female staff resigning in protest

Situation B: Academia gets more male-dominated every level up you go

Is it possible Situations A and B are related? I investigated.

bylinetimes.com/2025/03/17/m...

I spoke to women leaving academia posts because they feel universities are protecting predatory professors.

Is this one cause for the ‘leaky pipeline’ problem, which sees women falling out of academia at every rung of the ladder?

Thank you for listening and sharing!

🔴'The Media is Misreporting Why People Aren't Having Children'

These are the real reasons birth rates are falling, argue @mathildamall.bsky.social and @helenawadia.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/03/10/b...

It works for me!

👂You can hear from Jess & Nathan too @mediastormpod.bsky.social

Believe it or not, I went on a Channel 4 reality show titled ‘Go Back To Where You Came From’ to try to fight sensationalist polarisation. It was really hard.

Here’s what I learned.

You can hear from Jess and Nathan too 👂@mediastormpod.bsky.social

Go straight to episode 4! 😉