Alex Hern
Alex graduated St Peter's College, Oxford, in 2011 and is a former Parliamentary researcher. He is currently working as Left Foot Forward's intern. Alex is an avid comic aficionado and critic. You should follow him on twitter.
Cable falls in line with Beecroft’s anti-worker voodoo economics
Alex Hern reports on Vince Cable's announcement of his and his department's support of Conservative donor Adrian Beecroft's anti-worker employment reforms
If the right cares about sovereignty, why the silence on credit agencies?
Alex Hern asks why there is such silence from on the risk to democracy which the credit ratings agencies represent.
‘Workers are children, and if you don’t like high pay, move to Cuba’
Alex Hern covers the extraordinary comments of Dr Heather McGregor, who thinks workers are basically children, and that if you don't live in Cuba, you shouldn't have a say in how your company is run.
Tabloid hypocrisy shocker: “Aren’t those other papers nasty, with all that hacking?”
Alex Hern reports on the remarkable degree to which every tabloid manages to avoid reporting on its own implication in the phone hacking scandal.
Egyptian military’s violent crackdown threatens dream of democracy
The latest news from Egypt, where bloggers are being arrested and protesters are being shot with American-made teargas, in a haunting repeat of the Spring.
Greening orders no opt-out for clothes-penetrating scanners
Alex Hern covers the DfT's statement ending the option for a opt-out from new scanners which reveal the naked body of the person being scanned