At the age of 16, we can marry our MP, legally have sex with our MP, join the armed forces and fight for our MP and pay tax for our MP, but the one thing we cannot do is vote for our MP. How can this be justified?
The abolition of the UK Film Council a curious decision; indeed, the government’s decision to scrap the UKFC is not just an act of artistic philistinism – it’s a case of economic vandalism too.
Labour leadership candidate and Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP Diane Abbott outlines her views on the criminal justice system, exclusively for Left Foot Forward.
Open Left and Soundings magazine have produced an ebook entitled ‘Labour’s Future’ edited by myself and Jonathan Rutherford; the central message being that we can only engage in the process of renewal pluralistically.
Leading economist and new Labour MP Rachel Reeves writes exclusively for Left Foot Forward on Vince Cable’s lack of support for small and medium sized enterprises.
Ken Livingstone writes exclusively on the problems facing London’s economy under the ConDem cuts and why he is the man who can best deal with them.
Research published by War on Want today reveals that tea workers in northern India earn just £15.45 (1,220 rupees) a month, compared to a living wage of at least 3,500 rupees (£44.34) a month.
Labour leadership candidate David Miliband writes for Left Foot Forward on the GDP figures and the state of the economy.
Nick Clegg’s Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill was published yesterday. It removes local control and contains carve outs for Lib Dem MPs.
In a couple of months more than 200,000 Labour Party members and many other trade union members will help decide the next Labour leader…
