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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead

Andy Burnham
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Andy Burnham backs living income campaign for Greater Manchester

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 June, 2025

“If you set people up to succeed, they will succeed. We are saying to the government, let us here in Greater Manchester rethink the entire benefits system and turn it from a negative deficit model that’s trying to see the worst in people into an empowering system that builds people up rather than knocks them down.”

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Homelessness in Northern Ireland more than doubles over past decade

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 June, 2025

Rising rents, stagnating wages, and mounting pressure on housing benefit are all contributing to the crisis.

Jacinda Ardern

Woke-bashing of the week – Jacinda Ardern becomes the latest target of the ‘post-woke’ movement

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 June, 2025

Rather than wielding authority for its own sake, Ardern emphasises the importance of empathy, principled leadership, and purpose-driven politics. It’s a vision that stands in depressing contrast to the reactionary impulses of the so-called ‘post-woke’ movement.

Right-wing media watch – Bring back Boris! Conservative media flirts with fantasy as Tories flounder

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 June, 2025

It makes you wonder if the tabloid tussle over Johnson’s return is just a ploy for clicks. In any case, would Johnson want to a second coming? He seems pretty busy making money, and babies.

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Express begrudgingly concedes Brexit reset benefits, not that you’d know it from the headline

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 June, 2025

‘Many readers won’t get past the headline.’

Right-Wing Watch

Nativism: The real reason behind the right’s newfound concern for child poverty

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 June, 2025

The benefits that Reform champions are largely reserved for those who conform to the right’s ideal of the ‘traditional family,’ that is married, heterosexual, and supportive of conservative values.

NHS worker conditions
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Radiology delays linked to ‘unsustainable’ NHS privatisation

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 June, 2025

If current trends continue, annual spending on outsourcing could exceed £400 million by 2028, enough to fund 3,389 full-time consultant radiologists.

Right-wing media watch – Dovid Efune insists his ‘British bid’ for Telegraph still alive amid foreign takeover deal

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 June, 2025

The sale of the Telegraph saga goes on.

Woke bashing of the week – woke-bashing backfires as GB News faces backlash over anti-LGBTQ+ slur

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 June, 2025

“That is an actual comedy show. Not comedy masquerading as news like GB News output.”

Jeremy Corbyn speaking at the launch of his campaign to be an independent MP for Islington North
News

Jeremy Corbyn hints at new left-wing party ahead of next election

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 June, 2025

The party would promote ‘peace, justice, equality, and diversity.’

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