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Forget challenger banks, Ed – and hand shares in RBS and Lloyds to the British public
It is easy to produce banker bashing sound bites in bonus season. But as Ed Miliband recently showed, it is rather harder to stop rhetorical flushes damaging the value of our unintentional investment in RBS and Lloyds.
Scandal at Sulivan Primary: the plot thickens
Two councillors involved in the decision to close Sulivan school have some serious questions to answer about personal interests.
50p tax rate: play the world’s smallest violin for the rich
I won’t be playing the world’s smallest violin for those affected by the proposed 50p tax rate, and neither should you.
Why Larry Summers was right to give Osborne’s economic policy a kicking
We should welcome Larry Summers showing how incoherent this chancellor’s economic policy really is.
This week’s most read: Sulivan school, UKIP and free expression
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
SNP crushed by Labour in Cowdenbeath
Labour has held the seat of Cowdenbeath in a Scottish Parliamentary by-election sparked by the death in November of the sitting MSP, Helen Eadie.
Have charities become too corporate?
Many charities have long ceased to challenge the powers that be.
The coalition’s cost of living sleight of hand
The transparent attempt by the government to selectively reinterpret the data so as to downplay the so-called ‘cost of living crisis’ is frankly rather alarming.
As the Rennard furore fades, all parties must reflect on how the Lib Dems got it so badly wrong
Here are some basics from the world of law and policy on sexual harassment and violence, which are worth bearing in mind in reviewing procedures.
James Turner Street exists: Benefits Street doesn’t
52 per cent of the people in the areas where Benefits Street was filmed are in employment.