Kevin Gopal
Journalist at Freelance
Manchester-based freelance journalist and editor - https://t.co/SH47Go8PrP
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3 weeks ago |
national.thelead.uk | Kevin Gopal
At a glance factsThere are growing calls for a wealth tax as an alternative to Rachel Reeves’s current plans to balance the books through harsh cuts in welfare spending and elsewhere.
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2 months ago |
national.thelead.uk | Kevin Gopal
Sophie hadn’t even heard of the household benefit cap when it hit her. But then she knew. The 28-year-old from Blackpool had worked since she was 16, as a special needs teacher in a primary school and then as a carer. She was living with her son, now four, and her youngest sister, to whom she was a guardian. She was working four days a week and receiving Universal Credit when she gave birth to her daughter last April.
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Jan 16, 2025 |
national.thelead.uk | Kevin Gopal
Three Manchester men convicted of conspiring violent revenge for the death of their friend in a case where prosecutors used drill music lyrics and social media messages as evidence of their gang membership will be freed after a successful appeal. But appeals by four others among the so-called Manchester 10 were rejected in a Court of Appeal judgement yesterday [15 January] described by campaigners as “bittersweet”.
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Dec 10, 2024 |
national.thelead.uk | Kevin Gopal
It’s a tense enough moment on its own. HOPE not Hate’s undercover journalist Harry Shukman is filming covertly inside an Athens restaurant, hoping, over a dry plate of fish, to extract the name of a Silicon Valley funder of the European far right. Then, his handler Patrik Hermansson decides he too needs undercover pictures of the dinner, and strolls past the restaurant windows shooting from the hip on his phone. The tension ratchets up.
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Nov 23, 2024 |
teesside.thelead.uk | Leigh Jones |Kevin Gopal
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Also he said welfare policy is 'punitive', which is further than nearly all Lab politicians will go
Of course it's all very communitarian, New Laboury & it's so tempting to be cynical, I get that, but Burnham has no interest in rebranding the DWP, nothing to gain from slopping some polish on a turd, so it's reasonable to assume he's doing it in good faith? Worth a go, no?
One for you @yorksranter
Keighley Cougars became the symbol of resistance. Despite develping Cougermania, Lindsay was dismissive of their protests: "Everyone has a soft spot for such an enterprising little club. But we are planning a Super League not a Sympathy League." https://t.co/g2RBqrLRAT
RT @OskarGie: Seconds, apparently https://t.co/VtxtbTVnPe
