Look left: Ed Miliband and the trade unions, the Royal Mail, and MPs’ pay
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
Is the Huffington Post branching out into sexist upskirt shots?
Wimbledon is supposed to be about decorum and propriety. And yet it seems that much of the respect that is automatically conferred upon the male tennis fraternity does not extend to women.
Two thirds of public opposed to Royal Mail sell off, including majority of UKIP supporters
Two thirds of the public are opposed to the government’s sell off of Royal Mail, with over a third ‘strongly opposed’, according to a new YouGov poll.
MPs and the Royal Family: apparently the only public sector workers who deserve a pay rise
Just a few weeks after chancellor George Osborne announced £11.5 billion pounds worth of spending cuts, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has recommended that MPs receive an inflation-busting pay increase to £74,000 – up from the current level of £65,738.
Five reasons the privatisation of Royal Mail is bad policy
Later today ministers will announce the final details of plans for the privatisation of Royal Mail.
Labour and the unions: Now the ball is in the Tories’ court
In the wake of today’s speech Ed Miliband will face the biggest test of his leadership thus far – and it is a test of his own making.
Five crazy ideas from the Tories’ new policy chiefs
Last week it was announced that the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) was to lead the Conservative Party’s policy development. The aim, according to the CPS press release, is to “feed through new ideas for both immediate implementation and the next Conservative manifesto in 2015”.
Message to Simon Danczuk MP: Being wrong is not the same as being racist
Labour MP Simon Danczuk, the MP who recently clashed with Owen Jones on the Daily Politics over the Spending Review, has a piece in today’s Telegraph in which he writes that the politics of the Labour left “should be viewed in the same way as we view the views of the BNP”.
Five party reforms Ed Miliband should consider in the wake of Falkirk
In the wake of the Falkirk scandal there is increasing pressure on Labour leader Ed Miliband to distance his party from the trade unions. Some within Labour’s own ranks are even calling for the link between Labour and the trade unions to be severed.
UKIP supporters most pessimistic about Murray’s chances of winning Wimbledon
UKIP supporters were more pessimistic than any other party’s about Andy Murray’s chance of winning Wimbledon, according to a YouGov poll for yesterday’s Sunday Times.