Look Left – Libya: Allies urge “reconciliation and forgiveness”
World powers met with representatives of the National Transitional Council in Paris this week to plan how to win the peace following the downfall of Gaddafi.
Shamik Das
Cameron’s Bullingdon hypocrisy laid bare
David Cameron was grilled over his antics while a member of the posh boy Bullingdon Club today, an issue which exposes him and Boris Johnson as hypocrites.
LFF at the Labour party conference: Where next for new media and politics
Left Foot Forward will be hosting a fringe event at the Labour party conference on “Where next for new media and politics”, on Wednesday, September 28th at 7:00pm.
If anti-abortionists have their way on counselling, what will they demand next?
The change in the law on counselling leads us down a slippery slope; if the anti-choice zealots have their way on this, they will demand much, much more.
Another blow for Gillard as High Court rules refugee “swap” deal illegal
Australia’s Labor prime minister Julia Gillard suffered a further blow today with the High Court ruling the controversial Malysia asylum seeker “swap” deal illegal.
FT takes apart Osborne’s Swiss tax deal
Today’s Financial Times has drilled an alarming number of holes in George Osborne’s much-spun anti-tax evasion deal with the Swiss authorities last week.
Starkey’s race theories “would disgrace a first-year undergraduate” say academics
Leading academics have savaged right-wing historian David Starkey’s post-riot comments about race in which he said the problem was “whites have become black”.
Look Left – Just when you thought hackgate couldn’t get any worse…
The News of the World phone hacking scandal plumbed new depths last night, with the news Sara Payne’s phone had been targeted, reports Shamik Das.
Tories used PIs “to spy on their own supporters”
There are reports this morning that the Conservative party used private investigators, like Glen Mulcaire, to delve into the personal lives of their own supporters.
Has the coalition lost the plot on growth?
Following the depressing growth figures, coalition big wigs have been keen to offer their hapoth’s worth to George Osborne with a series of bizarre ideas.