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Budget 2014: To help low earners, look to self-employment tax cuts
In setting out the Budget and their manifestos, political parties should take account of the recent rise in self-employment.
19p should be the first step towards a mandatory living wage
When the National Minimum Wage is increased in the autumn, it will remain far below a living wage and will leave millions earning poverty wages.
Gypsy MPs and condom harmonisation: the 10 best right-wing EU scare stories
A compendium of right-wing scare stories about the EU.
It’s spin season: a note from the Editor
Can you give just £2 a week to help us push back against Tory spin?
The government has once again shown its contempt for NHS staff
Average NHS workers have had a 10 per cent real terms pay cut since this government came to power in 2010.
Cameron cosies up to Israel while lecturing Palestinians on peace
Cameron’s speech demonstrates everything that’s wrong with international engagement with the Israel-Palestine peace process.
Migration Watch’s latest report: a ‘stark misapprehension’ and ‘simply wrong’
‘Immigrants cost Britain £3,000 a year each’, booms today’s Daily Telegraph. They are completely and utterly wrong.
An interview with pro-Palestinian activist Gary Spedding about anti-semitism in Galway
Left Foot Forward editor James Bloodworth caught up with Gary Spedding to ask him about his concerns over anti-semitism in some sections of the pro-Palestinian movement.
DWP advises jobcentres on foodbank referrals
The DWP has been advising jobcentres on referring benefit claimants to food banks – despite the government’s insistence that food banks do not form part of the welfare system.
Police scandal and reform: can we break out of more of the same?
We should abandon the idea that the police alone keep us safe from crime and that everything else must defer to that goal.