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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead

UBI

Five proven benefits of Universal Basic Income

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 June, 2023

As the debate rolls on about UBI, we look at the proven benefits of a welfare scheme that provides a level of economic security to everyone and how the evidence so far does not necessarily support critics’ concerns.

Right-Wing Watch

What are the UK’s main right-wing blogs and how influential are they?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 June, 2023

Determined to pull more readers rightwards, and often propped up by millionaire donors’ intent on using their money to play politics, right-wing political blogs have become a distinctive force in UK politics.

Led By Donkeys

‘Brexit Has Failed’ poster campaign proves a crowd-pleaser, even in Brexit-backing towns

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 June, 2023

As polling shows Brexit regret has reached record levels, the billboard campaign highlighting Farage’s new slogan has been well-received, even in Leave-voting strongholds.

Daily Mail

Derbyshire school cancels Pride event following backlash peddled by right-wing press

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
9 June, 2023

Students, parents, staff, and the LGBTQ+ community were left disappointed, with many blaming the ‘inflammatory reporting’ of the Daily Mail and Telegraph.

NHS strikes

NHS staff pay dispute continues following government’s ‘in no way good enough’ pay rise

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 June, 2023

 ‘Nursing staff are fighting for their patients, and the very future of our NHS – not just for their pay.’

Rees-Mogg

Rees-Mogg mocked for saying Brexit allows us to lower food prices

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 June, 2023

The Tory MP revisited the popular referencing among Brexiteers of the repealing of the Corn Laws in the mid-nineteenth century.

Schofield scandal

Phillip Schofield hysteria slammed as ‘shameless distraction’ from government failings

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 June, 2023

The extraordinary row involving the Covid inquiry has been notably dwarfed in the media by the ITV controversy.

Right-Wing Watch

Will the Right successfully create a backlash against Net Zero?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 June, 2023

Criticism of Net Zero in Britain is rife among prominent right-wingers, but will the public buy it?

Chris Patten
News

Tory peer Chris Patten labelled ‘woke’ for evisceration of Brexit on Question Time

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 June, 2023

The former Tory chairman delivered a searing attack on Brexit, leaving right-wingers’ fuming.

Children at school development centre

Charities call for ‘complete reform’ of childcare system, including better pay for professionals

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 May, 2023

‘Childcare holds the power to tackle disadvantage by enabling parents to work and boosting children’s outcomes. But this opportunity is being missed and new government investment risks entrenching rather than changing an unequal system,’ says the JRF.

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