Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
‘Frankly a disgrace’: Food bank use remains “well above pre-pandemic level”
Dependence on food banks is still “well above” what it was before the pandemic, with emergency parcels feeding children on the rise, says Britain’s leading food bank charity.
Pro-Palestine activists force closure of UK chemical factory
Activists from Palestine Action, a group committed to ending UK complicity with Israeli apartheid, has forced the shutdown of a factory implicated with supplying components used to make drones used by Israel.
Rocketing inflation to exacerbate cost of living crisis, unions warn
As inflation hits a ten-year high, millions of families are at risk of plunging deeper into poverty this winter, unions have cautioned.
Seasonal jobs for young Britons in EU battered by Brexit, says travel industry
Young people's opportunities to work in temporary jobs in the European Union have been significantly limited by Brexit bureaucracy, businesses in the travel sector reveal.
UK government was not adequately prepared for Covid, watchdog finds
With time and energy lost on Brexit negotiations, the UK was not fully prepared for the pandemic, an independent watchdog has unveiled.
‘A Conservative con job’: North up in arms as plug pulled on northern powerhouse promises
Pledges to address England’s regional inequality transpires into broken promises with the scaling back of Northern Powerhouse Rail. Naturally, northerners are in uproar.