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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (5 days ago)

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23 December, 2025 (5 days ago)

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Craig Berry
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Quantitative easing and ‘loose’ monetary policy have not been successful in boosting UK export performance.

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James Bloodworth
18 February, 2014

Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi made a particularly egregious claim about workless households on last night’s Newsnight.

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Katharine Knox
18 February, 2014

Why we need a long-term plan to protect the country from climate change – and to right the wrong of the injustice it causes.

What are the alternatives to private monopolies on the railways?

Joe Barnes
17 February, 2014

With passengers wholly dissatisfied with the service provided on the railways, is now the time to look for an alternative?

A Lib-Lab coalition should not be dismissed out of hand

Richard Carr
17 February, 2014

The most likely scenario in 2015 is a hung-parliament. Policymakers should be considering how they deal with that reality.

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17 February, 2014

Look Left, our daily political round up, will be going out shortly.

10 right-wing myths about climate change and the floods

James Bloodworth
17 February, 2014

Left Foot Forward editor James Bloodworth debunks 10 of the most common right-wing myths about flooding and climate change.

Alex Salmond needs to woo, not bully, the rest of the UK

Ed Jacobs
17 February, 2014

When voters go to the poll in September’s referendum they deserve to know how Scotland’s ministers will respond if they can’t get their way.

Now the ‘new politics’ is dead, what is the point of the Lib Dems?

Steven Donlon
17 February, 2014

Here are some of the key pledges of Nick Clegg’s ‘new politics’ agenda which the party has dropped.

This week’s most read: Climate change deniers, Tristram Hunt and the University of Edinburgh

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