Tory childcare plans could see families of over-fives lose £18,000 worth of help
More than 100,000 families could lose out on up to £18,000-worth of childcare help under a new government scheme announced today.
The ‘new’ garden city announcement that isn’t new at all
Plans for a garden city in Kent are little more than a rehash of a 2012 idea.
Left Foot Forward writer Duncan Weldon to be new Newsnight economics correspondent
Congratulations this Friday go to the Duncan Weldon, a Left Foot Forward contributor since 2009, who is joining BBC Newsnight as their economics correspondent.
Ed Balls is right: the Marriage Tax Allowance is perverse and unfair
Just 28 per cent of couples in a marriage or civil partnership will benefit from the policy.
Gypsy MPs and condom harmonisation: the 10 best right-wing EU scare stories
A compendium of right-wing scare stories about the EU.
It’s spin season: a note from the Editor
Can you give just £2 a week to help us push back against Tory spin?
Migration Watch’s latest report: a ‘stark misapprehension’ and ‘simply wrong’
‘Immigrants cost Britain £3,000 a year each’, booms today’s Daily Telegraph. They are completely and utterly wrong.
An interview with pro-Palestinian activist Gary Spedding about anti-semitism in Galway
Left Foot Forward editor James Bloodworth caught up with Gary Spedding to ask him about his concerns over anti-semitism in some sections of the pro-Palestinian movement.
Ed Miliband is right, the promise of an EU referendum won’t win the 2015 election
Ed Miliband understands that people want a government that understands their concerns about Europe but is not obsessed with it.
Ethnic minorities better qualified than their white British counterparts
Many immigrants are increasingly more well qualified than their white British counterparts, according to a new study by the University of Manchester.