November 2010
Hit anti-cuts song to battle X Factor winner for Christmas No. 1
Wagner's dreams of snow-capped glory may have gone up in smoke yesterday, but there's still hope for those hoping to stick it to Simon Cowell - and do the same to the Clegg-eron coalition over their savage cuts agenda. Captain SKA's hit video "Liar Liar" - featured on Left Foot Forward ten days ago - will go for Christmas gold against whoever wins the X Factor, going on sale from December 12th.
North Korea: What is to be done?
In some respects, managing the North Korean regime is rather like the British government negotiating with Irish republican separatists in the days leading up to and following the Downing Street Declaration and the Good Friday Agreement; talks continued, in one way or another, in spite of attempts to by various elements of the Irish separatists to derail them, in large part because the British government would not be baited into breaking them off, weathering outrage after outrage to keep the process alive.
Squeezed middle includes top-rate taxpayers
The Guardian this morning reports that "Labour says 'squeezed middle' earns up to £50,000". The counter-intuitive result is based on analysis by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Long term, cablegate will harm intel-sharing and US counter-terror efforts
As bloggers, foreign diplomats and freedom of information evangelists revel in what twitter invariably named #cablegate, concern should also be expressed for the long term consequences of the leak by a disillusioned US military officer.
Sierra Leone – the quiet fightback
His Excellency Mr Edward Turay, High Commissioner for Sierra Leone, discusses the improvements in his country and his optimism for the future.
Building the UK’s Netroots
2011 is shaping up to be a promising year for online progressives in the UK. The first Netroots UK conference is in London on Saturday 8 January.