James Bloodworth
James Bloodworth is the former editor of Left Foot Forward.
Why do we think there’s a magic solution to child benefit?
If there is anything that really gets up the nose of the right it's single mothers on benefits. No, in fact it's any parents claiming benefits, as the sorry media sage around Mick Philpott demonstrated.
Graph: Falling pay under the Tories
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the rate of inflation has increased to 2.9 per cent in June, up from 2.7 per cent in May.
Proponents of Trident are trapped in a bygone era
The argument for keeping the Trident nuclear deterrent boils down to the following: by getting rid of Trident Britain will lose its position as a leading world power; it will also leave the country open to attack by hostile powers.
Daniel Hannan: wrong about everything on the benefit cap
Tory MEP Daniel Hannan has a piece in today's Telegraph in which he claims the left has "lost its moral compass on welfare".
The benefit cap tackles a real problem from the wrong end
A cap on the total amount of benefits that people receive begins rolling out across England, Wales and Scotland today. The cap applies to those aged 16 to 64 and means that couples and lone parents will no longer receive more than £500 a week, with single people limited to a maximum of £350 a week.
Don’t ban packed lunches, educate parents on healthy eating
People eat what their parents eat. First of all because children have to eat what they are given by their parents. But also because children pick up habits when they are young which can last a lifetime.