January 2011
The BA cabin crew dispute: The view from the shop floor
It is easy to forget that the British Airways cabin crew dispute is about real people's lives; here, Left Foot Forward presents the testimony of a BA employee.
Clegg’s latest lie: UK was on verge of a “sovereign debt crisis”
This morning the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg repeated the now discredited claim that when the coalition formed Britain was "on the edge of bankruptcy".
Sheriff attacks “vitriol” about “tearing down” govt. after Arizona shooting
An Arizona sheriff has attacked "the vitriol... the anger, the hatred, the bigotry" in America following the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Giffords.
Decentralisation of NHS cancer services already well underway
There has been apprehension at plans for a revolutionary decentralisation of NHS management, yet for NHS cancer services a similar experiment is well underway.
Comparing coalitions in Wales and Westminster
Mark Drakeford discusses six different points of difference between the conduct of the coalition at Westminster and the post-devolution experience in Wales.
Britain’s Netroots must turn online activity into offline protest in 2011
The Netroots UK conference has been a huge success. The ethos of the 570 delegates has been one of learning from each other but single-mindedness about the challenge ahead.