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Look Left – Tories past and present battle to out-nasty each other
The past week brought a reminder of just how unpalatable some elements of David Cameron’s Conservative party still are; Shamik Das rounds up the week’s news.
Anti-Catholic bigotry in Scotland on the rise; all religious hate crimes up 10%
Religious hate crimes in Scotland have surged 10 per cent in the last year, according to research released today by the Scottish government, reports Kevin Meagher.
Blatter: Contrite, but also still head of FIFA
Alex Hern covers Sepp Blatter’s apology on BBC News for his racism comments, as well as the astonishing fact he was repeating them even yesterday evening.
He sees no corruption, hears no racism and speaks no sense: It’s time to kick Blatter out
FIFA president Sepp Blatter caused outrage last night by saying footballers who had been racially abused should just “shake hands” with their abusers.
Billionaires v millionaires maybe, but the NBA players’ resolve is amazing
Ruwan Subansinghe runs through the amazing saga that is the NBA players strike.
Nick Clegg dodges, again, the question of what he’s doing to end child detention
Labour MP for Wigan Lisa Nandy writes about deputy prime minister Nick Clegg’s failure, once again, to answer questions on his pledge to end child detention.