Carl Packman
Carl is a health researcher; he writes book reviews for Left Foot Forward. Carl has written for the Guardian, New Statesman, Tribune Magazine, and The Philosopher's Magazine and blogs regularly at Though Cowards Flinch and Liberal Conspiracy. He is currently writing a book on consumer debt.
Comment: On Feminism and the Suzanne Moore Controversy
In an article featured in a new anthology, then re-printed in the New Statesman, Suzanne Moore told her readers that […]
Comment: After 60,000 deaths in Syria, why aren’t we acting?
The general conversation on Syria has been rather quiet of late; and Syria has noticed. One Syrian blogger in Homs, […]
Comment: The world in 2013
Left Foot Forward's Carl Packman predicts the big worldwide developments of the year ahead.
Comment: What would Disraeli, Southey and Burke make of Cameron?
Carl Packman looks at how David Cameron fits into the compassionate Conservative mould the Tory leader claims to hold to so dearly.
The UK needs to get a grip on legal loan sharks
The UK has fallen behind the rest of Europe in the battle to purge the scourge of payday lenders and violent loan sharks.
Comment: Venezuela’s Presidential elections: Chavez or Capriles?
Carl Packman looks ahead to today's Presidential elections in Venezuela between incumbent left-winger Hugo Chavez and centre-right challenger Henrique Capriles.