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This week’s most read: UKIP on the up, Miliband’s six point plan and devolution
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
Syria air strikes: Bashar al-Assad is not the ‘lesser evil’, but a major part of the problem
A Western alliance with Assad would be based on two colossal misunderstandings of the situation in Syria.
Commons vote on ISIS: let’s clarify things
Only 43 people voted against the motion, but many throwaway statements have been made criticising intervention.
The average person is being priced out of bettering themselves and gaining an education
Do we want to live in a society that can’t afford to offer its citizens culture, free and readily available?
Labour’s green policies are warming up, but its economics lag behind
If action on climate change is urgent, why is it hard for politicians to spend a bit of money on it?
Left Foot Forward readers back airstrikes on IS
A majority of Left Foot Forward readers back some form of military action against the so-called Islamic State, according to our latest poll.
Killing people rarely kills their ideas
Our best hope of reducing the numbers radicalised would be to champion a foreign policy based on clear principles.
Taking on ISIS: doing something is a high risk strategy. Doing nothing is disastrous
We have a responsibility to protect where feasible.
Trillion Dollar Scandal – the biggest heist you’ve never heard of
The World Bank analysed the world’s biggest corruption scandals over that past two decades. Seventy per cent involved anonymous shell companies.
The Independent editorial that would make Gove proud
Why is the Independent faithfully reproducing Department for Education propaganda?