Look Left: The Queen’s Speech, the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson and Britain falling behind in the ‘global race’
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
Benefit fraud accounts for just 0.7 per cent of welfare budget, official figures show
The latest report estimates fraud and error levels in the benefit system in Great Britain, published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) today, found that benefit fraud accounts for just 0.7 per cent of the welfare budget.
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So why did Stephen Hawking think it was ok to visit Iran and China?
Is Israel uniquely bad, or has hypocrisy towards the Jewish state become so widely accepted among some progressives that even an eminent scholar like Hawking is susceptible to hypocritical and lazy double standards?
Does Virgin have a sexism problem?
For Virgin this is the latest in a long line of questionable stances it has taken to its women employees (as well as women more generally), which leads one to wonder if Virgin has a problem – a sexism problem.
UK performing worse than all but one G7 country in ‘global race’
The UK is experiencing a slower economic recovery than 23 of the 33 advanced economies monitored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and is lagging behind all but one G7 country on exports, wage growth and manufacturing, according to new analysis published today by the TUC.
Five things Sir Alex Ferguson said about the Tories
With the announcement today that Sir Alex Ferguson will be retiring as manager of Manchester United at the end of the 2012/13 season after 26 years in the job, Left Foot Forward thought it fitting to look at some of Sir Alex’s best political quotes.
What’s to stop landlords passing the cost of immigration checks on to already squeezed tenants?
For the sake of appeasing a handful of Tory backbenchers and shoring up the UKIP vote, the government may have just heaped another burden on already hard-pressed tenants.
This week’s most read: Universal Credit, Sharia Councils and the privatisation of the Royal Mail
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
Leave the Tories to worry about UKIP. Let them do a 2005 all over again
There is a myth, propagated by much of the commentariat, which says that the public are far to the right of the major parties on three issues – immigration, welfare and the European Union. It is a myth that has been doing the rounds for some time now, but one which will no doubt be given another boost by today’s local election results.