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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead

Right-Wing Watch

Brexit lies: How the cheerleaders prospered while the country paid the price

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 February, 2025

The delusions of mystic Mogg and other Brexit diehards that the rewards will eventually come, are no longer tenable. Not only can we now measure the pitiful results and consequences, but they’re impossible to ignore.

Children living in poverty

Scotland’s promise to abolish two-child benefit cap expected to reduce child poverty by 2029

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 February, 2025

Scotland has promised to scrap the two-child limit on benefits from 2026.

News

Activists disrupt Swan Lake performance to protest Sadler’s Well’s’ ties with Barclays Bank

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 February, 2025

“It’s time Sadler’s Wells took a stand against the oily financiers set on destroying everything we love, all to line their pockets.”

Angela Rayner
News

Smear of the week – Tories accuse Angela Rayner of asking civil servants to help her move house

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 January, 2025

Barely a week goes by without the deputy PM being targeted for some alleged new ‘crime.’

News

Right-Wing Media Watch – Tabloids silent on Prince Harry’s legal victory, while Dan Wootton launches absurd attack

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 January, 2025

As we’ve pointed out in previous editions of Right-Wing Media Watch, sometimes what the press doesn’t cover is just as revealing as what it does.

Northern Railway
News

Andy Burnham pushes for control of Northern Rail by 2028

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
26 January, 2025

There’s been growing frustration among Northern users over the increasing number of cancellations, delays, disruptions and ticketing issues.

News

MPs warn SEND system is failing children

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 January, 2025

‘Too many families struggle to get the help their children desperately need.’

Right-Wing Watch

Are young men drifting to the far-right?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 January, 2025

For a disillusioned young man, grappling with economic stagnation and political apathy, Trump’s return may seem like an empowering vision.

Tower Hamlets Council votes to divest pension fund from companies arming Israel

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 January, 2025

The move follows months of campaigning.

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News

MPs push for extended paid bereavement leave for early pregnancy losses

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 January, 2025

‘Desperately needed and long overdue.’

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