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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead

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Activists to take to the streets in protest of Trump’s ‘grotesque’ plan for ethnic cleansing

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
15 February, 2025

‘Trump is woefully ignorant of international law and the law of occupation. Forcible displacement of an occupied group is an international crime, and amounts to ethnic cleansing.’

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Scottish Refugee Council celebrates 40 years of helping refugees

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
9 February, 2025

Four decades of supporting refugees and asylum seekers.

Social Housing in the UK
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Think-tank calls for official inquiry into racial inequality within UK housing sector

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
9 February, 2025

‘The possibility of structural discrimination in our housing market is a serious concern, and one that warrants an official inquiry.’

Smear of the week – Telegraph’s tizzy over Sadiq Khan dropping pronouns on X profile

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
9 February, 2025

So much for a juicy scandal.

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Surge in illegal meat imports to UK sparks calls for stronger post-Brexit border controls

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 February, 2025

Officials have raised concerns that the current post-Brexit border controls are failing to stop the influx of illegal meat.

Right-Wing Media Watch – Murdoch media goes all out attacking environmentalists

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 February, 2025

The return of Trump – a notorious climate change sceptic – seems to have emboldened the Murdoch media’s climate attack dogs.

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. 

A photo of a placard reading "tax the rich, not our future"
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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.

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