Left Foot Forward
Glass half-full for Tony as half-price books fail to fly off the shelves
On the day that Tony Blair's memoirs were released, it all seems a bit quiet. There were no queues; the bookshelves still full of hardbacks with “half price” stickers placed on the front.
Coalition cuts endanger the poorest children on UK roads
Recent announcements of the coalition government’s cuts are to dramatically worsen the plight of Britain’s poorest and most underprivileged children, new research reveals.
Livingstone: Londoners to suffer £5,625 of cuts per head
Ken Livingstone has cliamed Londoners are under attack from the Government - with £5,625 worth of spending per Londoner to be cut over the next five years.
Launching the ‘Political Innovation’ project
This week, a cross-party group of bloggers have come together to launch a project called ‘Political Innovation’. It is for anyone who has ever asked themselves “why is politics still done like this?”
UN says UK’s court system prevents access to environmental justice
It may be an understatement to say that the environmental movement is going through a rough patch. In the wake of the Copenhagen summit climate change scepticism shows little sign of going away.
Tory MEP: Poor kids are “a bunch of feckless ne’er-do-wells”
Government plans which could make highly performing secondary schools allocate places to pupils of mixed abilities have been slammed by Tory MEP Roger Helmer. According to Mr Helmer, the children of middle class parents are the most intelligent and should thus go to the best schools.