Haiti appeal launched – please donate
The Disasters Emergency Committee has launched an appeal to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Left Foot Forward urges all readers to donate.
Shamik Das
Anti-Sikh BNP’s shameful attempt to exploit murder victim
The BNP have attempted to exploit the death of Sukhwinder Singh. BNP leader Nick Griffin has proposed sending all Sikhs to India.
Politics Summary: Thursday, January 14th
Sign up to receive this daily email by 9am every morning. All today’s papers lead on the devastation in Haiti, with the Guardian and Sun reporting fears that up to 100,000 people have been killed in Tuesday’s earthquake. The Timestest
UKIP crisis over “extremist views” of Euro allies
UKIP’s European allies are under the spotlight following Nikki Sinclaire’s resignation from the EFD group in protest at their “variety of extremist views”.
More evidence of the public’s dislike of disunity
Further proof that the actions of Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt has emerged today following the latest Populus poll which shows a Tory lead of 15 points.
Politics Summary: Tuesday, January 12th
Peter Robinson’s resignation as Northern Ireland First Minister is the lead story, the papers reporting on his decision to step down to clear his name.
Latest Liddle outburst: “F*** off back to where you’re from, then, you Muslims.”
Rod Liddle’s description of “Somali Muslim savages” has been criticised by leading UK Muslims, as has his insinuation that the Left do not criticise extremism.
Look Left – The Week in Fast Forward
The Week in Politics • The “Dumb and Dumber” of British politics, Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt, got their 15 minutes of fame this week with their attempt to topple the Prime Minister, at long last uniting the Labour partytest
Post-plot polls show 60% think Labour divided and 62% think contest would be a distraction
The damage inflicted by Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt on Labour’s electoral chances by their botched coup attempt are laid bare in the latest polls out today.
Long range forecasting is accurate and CO2 does cause global warming
Scientists have been responding to claims that if they were unable to predict the bad weather how can they predict climate change over the next century?