Left Foot Forward
Ineffective ban on Islamist group shows May’s desperation
Theresa May’s desperation to be seen as a strong home secretary is apparent in how badly the banning of Islamist thugs Muslims Against Crusades has been handled.
FT slam dog-whistle May’s “preference for popular pandering over rational policy”
The FT has hit out at “the true scandal” of a fear-based immigration policy today, attacking the “preference for popular pandering over rational policy”.
The human tragedies of the M5 crash
Parliament united to remember the victims of Friday’s horrific M5 crash tonight, following an emergency statement by new transport secretary Justine Greening.
Labour: Anti-sectarian legislation is right in spirit, but flawed in execution
Shadow Scottish justice secretary James Kelly MSP explains why Scottish Labour is opposed to the SNP’s anti-sectarianism bill.
Worst Student Tories Ever Faceoff: Oxford Tories 2011 v Bullingdon 1988 – You decide
Alex Hern covers the embarrassment to the Conservative Party that is the Oxford University Conservative Association, the racist, bigoted Oxford Uni Tory club.
Philip Gould: 1950–2011
Tributes have poured in to Philip Gould, one of the architects of New Labour, one of the great modernisers of British politics, who has died from cancer, aged just 61.