May “looking shoddy”, but not toast yet
Alex Hern reports on the revelations from Brodie Clark’s testimony on Theresa May, borders and immigration to the home affairs select committee today.
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Clegg under fire over voter registration, party funding and youth unemployment
Nick Clegg was grilled on boundary changes, the voter registration reforms, party funding, youth unemployment and child detention at DPMQ’s in the Commons today.
£200m of aid budget to be spent on St Helena airport – after lobbying from Lord Ashcroft
The government has approved £200 million of the aid budget to be spent building an airport for St Helena – after lobbying from £127m tax dodger Lord Ashcroft.
Memo to Cameron: The rich give less to charity
The rich give less to charity than the poor, making David Cameron’s Tory mission to roll back the frontiers of the state are deeply, deeply regressive.
The rotten borough of the City of London needs to be dragged into the 21st century
The City of London, the rotten borough at the heart of our capital, is not going to reform on its own – we need to make it reform, writes Jenny Jones AM.
In touch?! Backbench Tories grumble over “inadequate” £65,738 salary
Alex Hern asks what on Earth out of touch Tory backbenchers were thinking when complaining to Conservative Home about their “inadequate” £65,738 salary.
Safe in their hands? Tory peers, private health and the threat to our NHS
Tory peers with links to the private healthcare industry, peers who normally never vote, are helping push through Andrew Lansley’s health and social care bill.
Gray warns Scottish Labour successor of “poison” being levied at them
The outgoing leader of Labour MSPs at Holyrood, Iain Gray, has issued a warning to his successor once they are elected in December, reports Ed Jacobs.
Republican tax plans put the myth of conservative economic prowess to bed
Alex Hern covers the economic incompetency of the hard-right republican Tea Party’s presidential candidates and Herman Cain and Rick Perry’s crazy tax plans.
Top five reasons why you can’t protest (according to the right)
Alex Hern details the ridiculous arguments used against Occupy London by people on the right seeking to discredit them.