Budget 2011: The coalition must act on child poverty
Dominic Browne reports on Why the government must reverse its unfair policies that will hit the poor the hardest if the coalition is to make good on its child poverty pledges.
Dominic Browne
Dominic Browne is an intern at Left Foot Forward.
How to write a Richard Littlejohn column
Dominic Browne presents a step-by-step guide to writing a Richard Littlejohn Daily Mail column.
Boris’s scaremongering over ‘banker bashing’ not backed up by evidence
Boris Johnson and other Tory and right wing scaremongering over ‘banking bashing’ are not backed up by evidence, reports Dominic Browne.
Will Osborne sell out “greenest government ever” in Budget?
Dominic Browne catalogues the recent spate of government failures and half measures that undermine their stated aim of becoming the “greenest government ever”.
Balls: “Rock and roll” time for tax avoiders
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, speaking at the Unions 21 conference this morning, said that George Osborne’s cuts could spell a “rock and roll” period for tax avoidance, reports Dominic Browne.
Bradshaw: “It’s Labour’s conservatives that oppose AV”
Battle lines were drawn last night at the launch of the Labour Yes to AV campaign, against conservatives inside and outside the party, reports Dominic Browne.
Doctors tell Lansley: “Stop this bill”
The British Medical Association’s call today for the coalition to halt the NHS reforms adds to the array of experts, political veterans and grassroots campaigners now lined up against the Health and Social Care Bill.
IMF-convened economists say cuts are the wrong strategy
The international chorus of experts against sharp deficit reductions plans has grown stronger, as world-leading economists said that the US and EU economies remained too fragile to absorb major deficit cuts. The economists met at a private conference convened by the IMF to discuss “Macro and Growth Policies in the Wake of the Crisis”.
Ghastly decline in right wing reporting standards
A rebuttal of the right wing media’s manipulation of how a court dealt with a fostering case involving a Christian couple with anti-homosexual beliefs.
Conservatives build volunteers up then knock them down
David Cameron’s confused message over the Big Society took another blow after it was announced a charity at its forefront had its funding axed by the government.