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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead

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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
News

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.’

Right-Wing Watch

Hungary: the anti-media model loved by the Right

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 May, 2025

As populist movements gain ground worldwide, the pressing question is: how far will this authoritarian, anti-media model be allowed to spread?

News

Right-wing in meltdown over Sadiq Khan’s support of cannabis reform

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 May, 2025

As ever, right-wing critics focus on fear, missing the point that the proposal does not advocate full legalisation, but rather aims to reduce harm and promote equity, while strengthening education and addiction services.

A photo of Nigel Farage at Reform UK's local election campaign rally in Birmingham
News

Farage’s anti-net zero crusade falls flat as voters blame energy bosses for soaring bills

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 May, 2025

“To make this assertion more credible, maybe he should have written it on the side of a bus.”

Food bank Britain
News

A food parcel every 11 seconds: Charity demands urgent action on hunger

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 May, 2025

Over the past five years, the number of families with children relying on food parcels has increased by 46 percent.

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