Eurozone crisis update: From the analytical to the hysterical
Alex Hern rounds up commentators’ responses to the latest developments in the eurozone crisis.
Alex Hern
Website 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.
Cameron and Osborne want the unemployed to work for £1.78 an hour
Alex Hern reports on David Cameron and George Osborne’s savage undermining of the minimum wage.
Blix says Iran “clearly working towards a nuclear weapon” – yet the UK remains silent
Alex Hern reports on Hans Blix’s response to the IAEA’s report on Iran’s nuclear weapons programme, and asks why there’s been such silence from the UK government.
Remember how the agency workers directive was going to take 500,000 jobs? Yeah, well…
Alex Hern reviews the effect of the Agency Workers Directive, and finds that the right were so very wrong about what it would do to jobs.
Osborne in public: “I am not against Tobin taxes”; in private: “He remains unconvinced”
Alex Hern covers Osborne’s attack on an FTT, and questions whether his arguments against them are even internally consistent.
Telegraph just can’t let the tent-flap go
Alex Hern covers the latest smear-job by the Telegraph against peaceful protest; the message is clear: If you aren’t in bed by midnight, you can’t protest.
A three step guide to writing a Simon Heffer column
Alex Hern runs over the “best” of Simon Heffer’s columns, and details how to write one yourself, so you don’t have to read his.
GOP: Bullying’s OK if God tells you to
We report the abhorrent political posturing of the Michigan republicans which has led to them wrecking an anti-bullying bill by allowing religiously-motivated abuse.
Cuba heading for a housing bubble to beat all bubbles
Left Foot Forward’s Alex Hern reports on the creation of a property market in Cuba for the first time since 1959.
Worst Student Tories Ever Faceoff: Oxford Tories 2011 v Bullingdon 1988 – You decide
Alex Hern covers the embarrassment to the Conservative Party that is the Oxford University Conservative Association, the racist, bigoted Oxford Uni Tory club.