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After decades of the USA and China preventing global agreement, they are finally making progress to combat climate change.
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The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
It’s The Sun Wot Lost It
The newspaper industry, and the power of the press barons, is declining. The internet is on the rise and this holds opportunities for the left.
Tackling the productivity orthodoxy to boost pay
Millions of working people find themselves working harder for less. We need to rebalance our economy.
Labour has betrayed its supporters on the welfare cap
The Tory austerity drive – bound up as it is in the barefaced lie that Britain was brought low in 2008 by benefit scroungers and not reckless bankers – was never about fixing the economy. It was about shrinking thetest
UK Labour lovebomb Wales
Shadow Welsh Secretary, Owen Smith, has launched a scathing attack on the UK Government for launching a politically motivated “war on Wales” to shore up their position in England.
The welfare cap ties a Labour government to ‘predistribution’
The welfare cap could help focus attention on the drivers of benefit spending.
4 ideas to make our political system more democratic
The Telegraph reported yesterday that a House of Commons committee has called for the abolition of the monarchy’s role in signing off new laws. The Political and Constitutional Reform committee said that the role of the monarchy in giving approvaltest
Dear FCA, Harm is harm, whoever the lender
Harmful debt is not concentrated in one section of the market alone.