Five challenges facing the new Pope
Left Foot Forward spoke to Catholic Voice writer and speaker Peter D. Williams about the challenges ahead for the new pontiff.
Movement Politics
The Left Foot Forward Debate: Hugo Chavez, tyrant or liberator?
Opinion on the Left has been divided since the news broke on Tuesday evening that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had died of cancer. We asked two of our writers to give their take on the legacy of Hugo Chavez, both for and against.
It’s time to admit football has a money problem
Football has a money problem. A first – but significant – step in dealing with financial short-termism in the game is to address the language we use.
Campaigns: Ensuring MPs stick to their 2030 Carbon Target promises
Social media is increasingly being used by activists to hold politicians to promises they have made in the past. This time those MPs who promised to back the 2013 Carbon Target amendment to the Energy Bill are being encouraged to stick to their promises via Twitter.
Comment: On Feminism and the Suzanne Moore Controversy
In an article featured in a new anthology, then re-printed in the New Statesman, Suzanne Moore told her readers that “the desired body for women is that of “a Brazilian transsexual”.” What then came after was a bucket load oftest
Her Majesty’s uncooperative Queen’s Speech
The Queen’s Speech did not deliver on energy bills, foreign aid or co-operative values.
If psephology is destiny, Cameron will be forced further to the right
David Cameron may have to spend the next three years courting voters to his right, increasingly distant from mainstream Britain.
Unions and Occupy continue to build their wary alliance
Occupy’s willingness to engage with, support, and be supported by establishment forces such as trade unions has shed some light on its dynamic persona.
Occupy have provoked the intelligent debate so lacking in mainstream politics
For four months, the protestors at St Paul’s have provoked the sort of intelligent debate so lacking in mainstream politics today, write Friends of the Earth.
Occupy London evicted, but are St Paul’s sad to see them go?
Alex Hern looks at the eviction of Occupy London from St Paul’s, and asks how much the church had to do with it. Are they really sad to see them go?