Hospital cleaners give greater value to society than city fat cats, new research has found. The New Economics Foundation (NEF) discovered that elite city bankers, those in receipt of £1 million-plus bonuses, destroy £7 of value for every £1 theytest
Sign up to receive this daily email by 9am every morning. Foreign affairs once again dominate the front pages, following Gordon Brown’s trip to Afghanistan and his predecessor’s remarks that he “would have gone to war without Iraqi WMD”. Thetest
The Week in Politics • Alistair Darling delivered his pre-Budget Report, getting a 66 per cent score from Left Foot Forward for his troubles. Among the main announcements were a 50 per cent tax on bankers’ bonuses – criticised bytest
Tory peer in attack on Jewish climate change activists; calls them “Hitler Youth”
Sign up to receive this daily email by 9am every morning. On his first day in Copenhagen, ahead of the formal ministerial part of the negotiations, Ed Miliband writes exclusively for Left Foot Forward and outlines how the atmosphere hastest
Gordon Brown’s withered image looms large at the arrivals hall at Copenhagen airport.
Left Foot Forward reveals the truth behind the Tory-supporting Sun’s alarming claims about NHS spending – there were 72,000 extra nurses between 1998 and 2008.
UPDATE 3:45 Following comments from readers, and to make things clearer, we have recreated the word cloud with the words “Mr Speaker”, “per cent” and “year” all redacted: The original can still be viewed here. • Read it in fulltest
Shadow Business Secretary unenthusiastic about 50 per cent tax on bankers’ bonuses, implying it would be unenforcable and therefore not worth doing.
Join us from 12 noon on Wednesday 9th December for our live coverage of Alistair Darling’s Pre-Budget Report. We’ll be hosting a discussion on the key points as they’re announced, with guest commentators from across the progressive economic community, includingtest
