Look Left – The Week in Fast Forward
The economy, mutualism, the Taleban, climate change, Swedish schools and James Purnell.
Yearly Archives: 2010
BBC vs. The newspaper industry – mobile edition
The Independent captured the wrath of the Newspaper Publishers Association following the BBC’s announcement of mobile applications at the Mobile World Congress.
Liddle won’t be Independent editor
Rod Liddle is no longer in the running for the Independent’s editorship. The decision is a significant victory for campaigners using social networking tools.
Grieve’s dogwhistle u-turn on youth crime
The Tories today released figures claiming young criminals given community sentences were guilty of “100,000 extra crimes a year”. They say that, since 2002: “Over 650,000 crimes have been committed by juvenile offenders who had received a community sentence, referraltest
Brown: Tories will betray middle classes
Gordon Brown has fired the election starting gun in an interview for Tribune and speech to Policy Network. He said the Tories would betray the middle classes.
The week outside Westminster
A convicted fraudster has apologised for any problems caused when the SNP’s Sturgeon called for the Sheriff in his case to consider sentences other than prison.
Yet another blow to Tories’ “free schools” policy
Today’s short report from the LSE marks another blow for David Cameron’s Tory party’s proposals to introduce “Swedish schools” into the UK education system.
Delay cuts, says leading economists
Sixty-seven economists have today entered the debate over the pace of deficit reduction. Left Foot Forward has reproduced the two letters to the FT in full.
Politics Summary: Friday, February 19th
Echoing Labour, more than 60 leading economists have warned that the priority “must be to restore growth” and that a “sharingp shock now would be dangerous”.
More Mail climate change misreporting
Today, the Mail continues in the same vein. They’ve published an article talking about the Climate Challenge Fund (CCF) being “utterly bonkers and misleading”.