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Woke-Bashing of the Week: From Christmas to cardigans – the latest ‘anti-men’ panic

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

Quite what constitutes “the very worst left-wing feminist” remains unclear, beyond, perhaps, a woman who doesn’t particularly enjoy being corrected by men.

Right-Wing Media Watch: London is safer than it’s been in a generation – much to the alarm it seems, of Khan’s loudest media critics

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

For years, London has been portrayed by Khan’s critics as a city in terminal decline, undone by liberal governance, diversity and supposed softness on crime. The hard evidence now points in the opposite direction.

Third of students say Reform UK should be banned from speaking at universities

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Yesterday

The poll suggests the problem is not with banning speakers as such, but with which speakers.

A Cambridge University building

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News

Calls grow for childcare workers to earn £15 an hour minimum wage and to end zero-hour contracts

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 February, 2024

‘Caring for and educating young children is skilled work, and the overwhelmingly female workforce deserves decent pay and conditions.’ 

Right-Wing Watch

The European Parliament: The Next Target of the Far-Right

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 February, 2024

What is fevered activity between minor parties in Europe, becomes equally fevered factional activity within the Tory Party.

News

Homelessness charity issues chilling warning over council funding cuts

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 February, 2024

A vital charity that helps vulnerable people has become vulnerable itself.

A graphic reading "'Pledge for the NHS' - Do your candidates back our NHS?"
Opinion

This is why campaigners are calling on parliamentary candidates to ‘Pledge for the NHS’

Johnbosco Nwogbo
10 February, 2024

“In this election, we must put all candidates in a position where they are either backing our NHS or being shown up to their local communities as a threat to it.”

Northern Railway

Northern mayors say train services have ‘got poorer’ since Northern Powerhouse promise

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 February, 2024

“What message does that send about the North? That we are somehow worth less than people in the South?”

Jeremy Hunt
Opinion

How the Tories created a worker shortage in the UK

Prem Sikka
9 February, 2024

Austerity, low wages, and degradation of healthcare and public services are to blame

Rishi Sunak reading from a folder on a train
News

EXCLUSIVE: Nearly half of voters think current Tory government is more corrupt than previous governments, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
9 February, 2024

Concerns over corruption in government have been rising over recent years.

Rishi Sunak
News

Rishi Sunak only has himself to blame for failing to bring NHS waiting lists down

Julia Patterson
9 February, 2024

Sunak’s pledge to bring down the NHS waiting lists wasn’t an off-hand pledge, an off-the-cuff remark, or a long-term policy proposal

Campaigners holding signs reading "No health selloff" and "Stop privatising our NHS"
Opinion

The NHS isn’t failing the public. The government is failing the NHS.

Tony O'Sullivan
9 February, 2024

There is a dual attack on the NHS of underfunding and privatisation

Rishi Sunak
Opinion

Why the Rwanda policy makes no sense practically or politically

Mike Buckley
9 February, 2024

Practically speaking the bill will not do what Sunak claims.

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