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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead

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Unions call on government to strengthen protection for creative industry workers against AI exploitation

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
9 March, 2025

Writers’ work is already being stolen on an industrial scale to train AI systems, without permission or payment, and is thereby infringing 300-year-old copyright protections.

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Trump’s media divide: Business barons cower to his power, while Murdoch resists

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 March, 2025

The coercion of the media to conform to the new administration undermines the integrity of unbiased, factual journalism.

Zero hour contract
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Calls for stronger worker protection as over-50s on zero-hour contracts soar

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 March, 2025

Older workers now account for a quarter of all zero-hour contract workers in the UK.

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European Movement launches campaign to strengthen EU-Canada ties in response to Trump’s trade war

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 March, 2025

‘The time has come for a European Movement Canada.’

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UK universities poised to gain from Trump presidency

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 March, 2025

During Donald Trump’s first term, the number of international students enrolling in US universities declined each year.

Woke-bashing of the week – Freckleface Strawberry, the latest casualty in the war on books

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 March, 2025

The story, which follows a young girl learning to live with her freckles and her unique identity, has been removed from schools operated by the Department of Defense under the Trump administration.

Right-Wing Media Watch – Mail on Sunday’s incredulous frontpage assault on the ‘thought police’  

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 March, 2025

“It isn’t the thought police if she expressed those thoughts in writing and published that writing on social media.”

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Immigration key to solving Britain’s construction crisis – say experts

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 March, 2025

‘The government has assumed restricting migrant workers will lead to higher wages and productivity but that doesn’t happen automatically.’

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Corporate America’s MAGA makeover – will the UK follow suit?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 March, 2025

Resistance will require strong political leadership from progressive politicians in the UK and in Europe to withstand the hopelessly short term and contradictory bombast of Trumpian politics.

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As energy prices soar in Britain, Spain keeps bills low with renewable energy

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 March, 2025

Overall costs of electricity, heating, cooling, water and waste disposal are 40 percent cheaper in Spain, where the cost of living is, on average, 26.5 percent lower than in the UK.

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