Fox News: Fair and balanced (occasional series)
Republican efforts to kill Obamacare with repeal bills are amounting to nothing, but it’s not for want of support from America’s most strident news outlet.
Ben Phillips
Ben is an intern at Left Foot Forward.
Caroline Spelman remains deeply confused by dangerous dogs legislation
Caroline Spelman finally responds to a consultation on microchipping dangerous dogs, yet doesn’t know that the relevant data is held by the private sector.
Forty-four years after Mexico City ’68, Tommie Smith still fights injustice
Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics is a defining image of the civil rights era. Now, a new film commemorates their actions.
Boris Johnson argues against bank regulation, misses the point
The PM’s spokesman thinks Barclays understands public concerns, while Boris Johnson says the Libor scandal is funny. Could the Tories please get back in touch?
As Spanish bond yields break 7%, the eurozone banking deal begins to unravel
A week ago, Spain secured an advantageous bank deal to drive down soaring bond yields: today, Spanish securities broke the 7% threshold. What’s gone wrong?
The government’s Work Programme (still) isn’t working
New ONS figures reveal that the number of long-term unemployed has more than doubled since May 2010: a new milestone in the Work Programme’s litany of failure.
The Higgs boson aside, Britain is still failing its scientific community
The PM’s claims to have preserved Britain’s science budget are inadequate: we continue to underfund and neglect researchers, squandering our economic advantage.
David Cameron: Once enraged over rioters, now complacent over bankers
Last summer, rioters made the headlines; this summer, it’s criminal bankers. David Cameron exhibited great zeal for punishing the one, so why not the other?
Two decades on, Labour consider returning the railways to public ownership
Labour support a new report, backed by major trade unions, which calls for the renationalisation of Britain’s railways to tackle rising fares and poor service.
After the Barclays Libor scandal, how long must we wait for a public inquiry?
Fresh news of Barclays and other high street banks misselling financial products draws condemnation from none other than the governor of the Bank of England.