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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead

Right-Wing Watch

Partied out: As party membership plummets the oligarchs ascend

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 February, 2025

The growing reliance on oligarch donations risks undermining the very fabric of democracy. With political parties no longer depending on membership fees or union backing, we risk wealthy individuals pushing policies that primarily serve their own interests rather than the people. 

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#TaxTheSuperRich campaign gains momentum

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 February, 2025

‘None of us can accept this level of inequality.’

Donald Trump

Woke-bashing of the week – Trump’s attack on ‘wokeness’ and the UK right-wing echo chamber

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 February, 2025

The echoes of Trump’s presidency are already reverberating across the Atlantic, emboldening right-wing commentators in the UK to rally behind a shared vision of dismantling progressive social policies.

Refugees
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Scottish Refugee Council launches new tool to help refugees locate support services

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 February, 2025

Since 2012, the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ policy has created challenges, preventing asylum seekers and refugees from fully integrating.

News

Right-Wing Media Watch – Tory press panics over Labour’s positive signals on closer EU ties

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 February, 2025

Despite Brexit’s clear, ongoing failures, some Brexiteers and their cheerleading press are still clinging to the myth of its success, accusing the so-called ‘Rejoiner elite’ of plotting a return to Brussels.

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‘Unprecedented’ month-long strike begins at leading London museums

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 February, 2025

It’s the “longest strike in the history of all three institutions.”

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.’

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