Memo to Cameron: The rich give less to charity
The rich give less to charity than the poor, making David Cameron’s Tory mission to roll back the frontiers of the state are deeply, deeply regressive.
Daniel Elton
How Cameron’s coalition is choking the Big Society
Half of all charities have seen costs rise due to David Cameron’s policies, a third sector survey has revealed – while 60 per cent have seen income fall.
What Would Alinsky Do: Why Occupy LSX need to quit St Paul’s
The lessons from Saul Alinksy for the Occupy LSX protesters may be to set themselves a deadline to leave Paternoster Square, and link up with left-wing Christians.
Five reasons why Commons Euro vote is not Cameron’s Clause IV moment
Euroscepticism is on the rise in the Conservative party, not in decline, meaning this will not be Cameron’s much sought after Clause IV moment.
Tories may care deeply about Europe, but no one else does
Taking a look at four issues – economy, unemployment, immigration/ race relations and Europe, we can see that while over a third of those surveyed identified the economy, and both immigration /race relations score around ten per cent, the number of respondents who answer Europe is statistically insignificant.
Weak Cameron will struggle to fire Fox
Liam Fox is a threat to David Cameron, vulnerable, damaging to his government and bringing politics into disrepute – but the PM may be too weak to get rid of him.
Cameron’s speech churns out the old Tory myths
Cameron’s speech turned out to be a trotting out of well-worn Tory tropes on spending, deregulation, family values, NHS reform, disability benefit reform and so much else. But there’s a lot of spin obscuring the truth.
LFF’s most influential left-wing thinker of the year 2010/11 is Owen Jones
Readers of Left Foot Forward have voted Owen Jones, author of “Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class”, as the most influential left-wing thinker of the year.
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How disability reforms were whitewashed from Labour’s conference
Labour have neglected the disabled at thier conference – at a time of their greatest need.