Olympic-tastic: Jess and Mo stick two fingers up to the anti-mixed race, anti-Muslim Mail
Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah stuck two fingers up to the anti-mixed race, anti-Muslim Mail and bigots like Aidan Burley MP with their Olympic golds last night.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Yaping Deng: The world’s most successful table tennis player
Yaping Deng – a 4′ 11″ woman from China – has more titles in table tennis than any other athlete.
Introducing neo-con economics
Left Foot Forward’s Cormac Hollingsworth presents your cut-out-and-keep guido to neo-con economics.
Comment: We should all get behind female Olympians – and here’s how
London 2012 offers a unique opportunity to promote women’s participation in sports and inspire a next generation of female Olympians.
Meet the GOP candidate who’s a conspiracy theorist, Islamophobe and ‘alien killer’
Here’s all you need to know about Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz, winner of the Republican Texas Senate Primary.
Derartu Tulu: The first black African woman to win an Olympic gold medal
Many remember Tulu for the victory lap she took in 1992; a symbolic gesture that signalled the end of Apartheid on the track.
Northern Ireland and Wales attack Gove’s failure to communicate
Education ministers from Wales and Northern Ireland have united in rebuking Michael Gove for failing to consult properly on changes to the examination system.
The nasty department: DWP threaten to take disabled children away from parents
The DWP is sending out threatening, menacing letters to disabled parents, ordering them to do as they say or risk having their children taken into care.
Osborne’s thrown a javelin through his own foot by failing to make FTT a reality
France has implemented a tax on the financial sector that will raise money to help the poor, writes Simon Chouffot of the the Robin Hood Tax campaign.
Nawal El Moutawakel: The first female Muslim Olympic champion
Nawal El Moutawakel: “I would wake up in the morning and say, I need to do this for the women of Arab states, African countries and Muslim women.”