2012
Comment: The “Establishment” can never be reformed if politics remains at the centre of it
Matt Pitt looks at the tight-knit nature of "The Establishment" and argues for the separation of it from politics.
David Miliband: Scotland can’t just “leave the UK on Friday, join the EU on Monday”
David Miliband yesterday warned an independent Scotland would have to "take its place in the queue" if it wanted to join the EU.
This week’s most read
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
Everyone blames Cameron for leading Europe’s disastrous austerity drive
The course of the failed EU budget negotiations have revealed David Cameron's quasi-Thatcherite negotiating style, enjoyed by Ms Merkel but not by many others.
Rising costs, mega profits, price fixing… We must make energy companies more accountable
Bill hikes, “Libor-like” fixing of wholesale gas prices, huge profits... time to investigate the limitations of private utilities running our energy supplies.
Try as he may, Chris Grayling can’t make prison cuts without cutting prison numbers
Efforts by the coalition to reduce expenditure on prisons are fraught with problems, including, potentially, from the ever-reliable G4S.