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Social Justice

Job Centre

Union warns of further poverty if benefits aren’t brought in line with inflation

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
9 October, 2022

‘Attempting to balance the books on the backs of the poorest in society is fundamentally wrong at any time and it will be especially devastating for many workers in the midst of a cost of living crisis.’

News

DWP criticised for rejecting calls to pause Universal Credit payment deductions during cost-of-living crisis

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 September, 2022

‘The deductions policy is acting as a recruiting sergeant for food banks.’

News

High Court battle to defeat government’s ‘inhumane’ Rwanda deportation policy underway

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 September, 2022

The Home Office’s claims that Rwanda is a safe country have been branded ‘irrational’ by the claimants.

Oxford City Council to provide free period products in public spaces

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 July, 2022

As period poverty in the UK rises, Oxford is to launch a scheme offering free sanitary protection in public toilets and other public buildings across the city.

No 10 lied about Chris Pincher, says former top civil servant

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 July, 2022

‘It’s sort of telling the truth and crossing your fingers at the same time,’ said Simon McDonald.

Go Slow protests

Priti Patel urges police to get tough with fuel protestors

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 July, 2022

Under the new legislation roadblocks can carry a six-month prison sentence.

Steve Bray

Support for Steve Bray shows extent of opposition towards ‘Soviet-style’ policing bill

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 July, 2022

As police flex their new powers by targeting a peaceful protest outside parliament, resentment towards the government’s controversial legislation seems higher than ever.

Dominic Raab

Thousands sign petition opposing government’s ‘toxic’ Bill of Rights

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
23 June, 2022

“The public, quite rightly, is very concerned that the government is putting themselves above the law and making themselves untouchable.”

‘A dark day for press freedom’: Left reacts to Patel’s decision to extradite Julian Assange

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 June, 2022

Following the announcement by the Home Office, politicians, activists, and advocates of free speech, have been sharing dismay at the extradition decision and support for the WikiLeaks’ founder.

XR

Tory crackdown on protests prompted by oil-funded think tank, investigation finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 June, 2022

Report shows that Policy Exchange, which called for the criminalisation of Extinction Rebellion and is funded by US fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil, influenced government clampdown on protest rights.

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