Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Andy Burnham backs living income campaign for Greater Manchester
“If you set people up to succeed, they will succeed. We are saying to the government, let us here in Greater Manchester rethink the entire benefits system and turn it from a negative deficit model that’s trying to see the worst in people into an empowering system that builds people up rather than knocks them down.”
Homelessness in Northern Ireland more than doubles over past decade
Rising rents, stagnating wages, and mounting pressure on housing benefit are all contributing to the crisis.
Woke-bashing of the week – Jacinda Ardern becomes the latest target of the ‘post-woke’ movement
Rather than wielding authority for its own sake, Ardern emphasises the importance of empathy, principled leadership, and purpose-driven politics. It’s a vision that stands in depressing contrast to the reactionary impulses of the so-called ‘post-woke’ movement.
Right-wing media watch – Bring back Boris! Conservative media flirts with fantasy as Tories flounder
It makes you wonder if the tabloid tussle over Johnson’s return is just a ploy for clicks. In any case, would Johnson want to a second coming? He seems pretty busy making money, and babies.
Express begrudgingly concedes Brexit reset benefits, not that you’d know it from the headline
'Many readers won’t get past the headline.'
Nativism: The real reason behind the right’s newfound concern for child poverty
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.