Left Foot Forward
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.
UKIP: dumbed down Powellism
It's something of a love that dare not speak its name, but Powellism has remained a major subtext on the British right for something like half a century, and the rise of UKIP marks only the latest incarnation of this ongoing infatuation.
Labour’s shameful links with the anti-immigration right
Anyone opposed to this shameful collusion with the hardline anti-immigration right should write to the Labour Party figures in question, or to their constituency parties, and make their feelings clear.
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.
The Week in Washington: Immigration looms over Obama Mexico visit; admin considers arming Syria rebels and more
Larry Smith's weekly round up of American politics.
Look Left: Universal Credit, the Bangladesh garment worker tragedy and another blow for the ‘greenest government ever’
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.