Left Foot Forward
Our union balloting laws stem from the Tories’ love for all things Hayek
Ruwan Subasinghe, a lawyer at the International Transport Workers’ Federation, on the background to the nation’s trade union laws.
Voting over – but will the race come down to MPs’ second preferences?
With voting now over, it looks like the Labour leadership race will be neck-and-neck - and could come down to Abbott/Balls/Burnham supporters’ 2nd preferences.
Left Foot Forward is Britain’s 3rd favourite political blog
Last week Left Foot Forward was voted Britain's No 1 left-wing blog. This week, LFF leads a left-wing insurgency of the blogosphere's Top 20 sites coming third overall.
Party democracy alive and kicking at Lib Dem conference
Lib Dem supporters are rallying behind Clegg and his Coalitioneers. The anticipated fallout has yet to surface, and a healthy dose of dissent has risen in its place.
Livingstone: Al-Qaradawi is a “leading progressive voice” in Muslim world
Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone has described Islamist extremist Yusuf al-Qaradawi as “one of the leading progressive voices in the Muslim world”.
The myth of the intergenerational workless household
References to the pattern of intergenerational worklessness in households are rarely accompanied by any relevant statistics on the no. of households involved.