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The spat over the Welsh NHS gets ugly
Jeremy Hunt has been accused of telling a ’tissue of lies’ over the health service in Wales.
MigrationWatch: a short history of spin, shoddy statistics and downright dishonesty
MigrationWatch don’t ‘talk truth to power’. They tell it exactly what it wants to hear: that it’s all the fault of the immigrants.
The sell off of our greatest national asset is the big general election issue
The most recent ICM poll puts the NHS at the top of the agenda for concerned voters.
The government faces difficult questions on Trident after the election
There are options for the next government beyond full replacement or scrapping the system.
UKIP policies: dangerous, costly and yes, racist
We don’t need to go trawling through old manifestos and historic statements; it’s right there on their website.
NHS in Wales – what the public thinks
As the Welsh government issues a rebuff of the Daily Mail’s new campaign to undermine Labour’s credentials on the health service, Left Foot Forward looks at what the public in Wales thinks of the health service.
Five reasons we need a stronger recall bill
The ‘power of recall’ doesn’t really give constituents the right to recall their MP.
The left should be honest about CAGE and Moazzam Begg
Parts of the liberal left should be honest with the British people about their alliance with CAGE and Moazzam Begg. Now more than ever we must turn to Meredith Tax’s book ‘Double Bind: The Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights’ for reference and moral clarity.
Integration should be the focus of immigration policy, not posturing
Poverty and job insecurity are more strongly associated with support for UKIP than migration.
It isn’t just child poverty that limits social mobility; inequality does too
The side of social mobility that no politician will talk about: making rich-but-dim children downwardly mobile.