Five reasons why using food banks is not a ‘personal choice’
As another Tory minister takes aim at food bank users, we take a look at some of the ways which show why using these community facilities is not a ‘personal decision.’
Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
NHS turns 75: How the Right reacted
The senior doctors’ strike has proven a particular bugbear for many on the Right. Amid the gushing anniversary celebrations, the Tory press didn’t hold back in making its contempt over the consultants’ industrial action known.
Andy Burnham warns closing ticket offices could be illegal
‘This is really wrong on so many levels, but we’re going to take a stand.’
#GeneralElectionNow trends following another disastrous week for the Tories
‘Who’s laughing now Suella. #GeneralElectionNow.’
Millions of households’ face fuel poverty as government support scheme ends, warns charity
‘Without more support too many will continue to rack up unmanageable debts or try and survive in unheated homes causing ill health, misery, and avoidable death.’
Take Thames Water into public ownership petition amasses tens of thousands of signatures
The English model of privatisation is not normal, as 90 percent of the world runs water in public ownership.
How far will UK Right go to weaponise anti-gay and trans sentiment?
Importing tactics from the hard-right in the US, a dangerous anti-gay and trans rhetoric is emerging, peddled by extremists and conspiracy theorists.
Leeds hosts Northern March for the NHS
‘Our demands include safe staffing and fair pay for NHS workers, an end to outsourcing as divisive and wasteful, and an immediate injection of capital funding to help start repairing the damage of 13 years of Conservative neglect.’
How is GB News really doing?
The right-wing network’s growing audience sadly proves there is an appetite for angry, red-faced, white men shouting at the screens about Meghan Markle and immigrants.
Right-wing press continues witch-hunt on ‘woke’ Derbyshire school
The deliberately provocative reporting comes as a new report shows that anti-drag sentiment is becoming mainstream in the UK, as US-style culture wars escalate.