Left Foot Forward
Where next for the parties in Scotland?
As Scottish secretary Michael Moore tells SNP to “get on with the job”, it’s Scottish Labour that needs to sort itself out - and soon, writes Ed Jacobs.
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.
The costs and consequences of Dorries’s abortion proposals
There’s no question Nadine Dorries’s proposal forcing women to be counselled somewhere other than their abortion provider will add delay and cost to the process.
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.
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Apply for the role of LFF intern; it will involve researching articles, editing copy and maintaining the website - pay: £8.30 per hour.
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".