What the Express is hiding about dirty Des’s not-so-generous charity lottery
Alex Hern looks at the lack of actual health donations from vulgar right-winger Richard Desmond’s ‘health lottery’.
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.
Lord Owen: NHS is under threat like never before
Left Foot Forward’s Alex Hern reports on Lord Owen’s remarks about the health and social care bill as it enters its second reading in the House of Lords.
Exposed: The legal aid minister’s £97,000 conflict of interest
Left Foot Forward’s Alex Hern discusses legal aid minister Jonathan Djanogly’s conflict of interest with regards to the bill he is shepherding through parliament.
Alexander: Britain should lead North Africa to European companionship
Alex Hern reports on shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander’s RUSI speech today, in which he laid out how British foreign policy should respond to the Arab Spring.
Cameron recognises the eurozone problem – but too late for Dexia
Alex Hern reports on the David Cameron’s interview in this morning’s Financial Times, and the FT’s policy prescriptions for the eurozone.
Leveson Inquiry hears of the ethical rot of Fleet Street
Alex Hern reports on the evidence given on the first day of the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking.
Steve Jobs: He did it his way
Steve Jobs, the co-founder and, until recently, CEO of Apple, died last night at home with his family. Jobs had lived with pancreatic cancer for four years, but had carried on working at the company he built from nothing –test
Second reading of NHS bill offers a second chance to kill it
With the health and social care bill returning to the House of Lords for its second reading this Tuesday, the fight to prevent its passing is building. Following the publication of a letter signed by 400 public health experts againsttest
Yet again, Tories fawn over the far right
Left Foot Forward’s Alex Hern reports on Finnish fascist Timo Soini’s presence at the Conservative party fringe in Manchester this week.
Cameron’s Speech: Reaction and Response
This piece presents a round-up of press and others’ reaction to David Cameron’s speech at the Tory Conference today.