What sort of person would three minutes of Muslim prayer at 3am ‘provoke’?
There’s Songs of Praise for the Christians every Sunday. There are special messages from the head Rabbi for Passover and Yom Kippur.
Five arguments against paying MPs lots of money
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) is likely to recommend on Friday that MPs receive an inflation-busting pay increase of £10,000.
This week’s most read: Rape apologism, banning islamophobes and boycotting Israel
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
Look Left: The Comprehensive Spending Review, fracking and (yet more) rape apologism
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
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Ireland, poster child for austerity hawks, slips back into recession
Ireland, Europe’s poster child for austerity, has slipped back into recession, and the country’s 2012 GDP has been revised sharply lower from +o.9 per cent to just +0.2 per cent.
‘Absurd’ to read significance into today’s GDP revision, says ONS
The UK economy did not enter a double dip recession at the beginning of 2012, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Channel 4 highlights Osborne’s ‘grossly misleading claims on investment’
Faisal Islam at Channel 4 Factcheck claims to have witnessed “the most egregious statistical chicanery…in a Treasury fiscal event in 13 years of covering economics for newspapers and TV”.
Spending Review: Osborne to take 10 years to simply get back to 2007/08
Considering the government likes to throw every question they are asked in the chamber back at Labour – i.e. “we’re clearing up the mess left by the last government” – it’s strange how, going by the projections released along with today’s spending review, it’s going to take until 2017/18 for the Tories to be back where the Labour government was in 2007-2008.
Spending Review: All in it together? Not according to the data
During his Spending Review speech George Osborne made much of the fairness of his announcements. He also repeated what has now become a cringing cliche: that we are “all in it together”.