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Child poverty
News

Lord John Bird urges government to step up on poverty to head off Reform threat

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 May, 2025

Bird warns that unless the government acts now, they will not hold back the rise of Reform at the next general election.

Child poverty in the UK
News

Ending poverty could save Britain £75bn a year, says charity

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 May, 2025

Trussell is calling for an “essentials guarantee” to be embedded within Universal Credit to ensure recipients can afford basic needs such as food and heating.

Right-Wing Media Watch – GB News’ outrage over teaching union’s apparent comments about Reform

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 March, 2025

It doesn’t take much for Nigel Farage’s loyal employer GB News to jump to the defence of the Reform UK leader.

Paul Marshall

Right-Wing Media Watch – Why we should be afraid of Paul Marshall’s plan to fund new generation of UK journalists

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
15 March, 2025

His funding of a new crop of journalists raises fears that the political neutrality of journalism is under siege.

Woke-bashing of the week – Freckleface Strawberry, the latest casualty in the war on books

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 March, 2025

The story, which follows a young girl learning to live with her freckles and her unique identity, has been removed from schools operated by the Department of Defense under the Trump administration.

Keir Starmer
Opinion

Ignore the naysayers, Labour is delivering on our promise of change

Abdi Duale
25 February, 2025

In less than a year this Labour government has pursued a radical agenda to rebuild and reform our public services, and finally address the fundamental problems in our economy the Tories ignored for 14 years.

Donald Trump
Opinion

How governments distract from social injustice by creating moral panics

Prem Sikka
21 February, 2025

Censorship and indoctrination diminish the possibilities for emancipatory change

Trade unionist arms factory protest Israel. Banner at front of protest reads "ceasefire now, stop arming Israel, end the occupation'
News

Local council pension funds investing billions in companies ‘enabling Israel’s genocide’

Olivia Barber
6 February, 2025

‘Divestment from Israel’s crimes is a moral and legal imperative that cannot be ignored’

News

Reactions to Trump’s attack on LGBTQ+ rights: ‘Trump cannot legislate people out of existence’

Olivia Barber
21 January, 2025

‘All this does is highlight the hypocrisy of those on the right who advocate for free speech while simultaneously seeking to suppress the expression of others.’

a photo of social media apps
Opinion

Dawn Butler MP: Social media companies abandoning the use of independent fact-checkers is a danger to society

Dawn Butler
10 January, 2025

‘When social media companies fail to tackle hatred and abuse, and fail to censor fake news and conspiracies, there is a risk of creating a group of people who are bad actors who can put people in danger’

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