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Sadly, an attempt to challenge lazy and dangerous anti-Muslim stereotypes has ended up reinforcing them.
With less than half of the population saving enough for a decent income in retirement, we’ve got a living standards crisis on the cards.
Away from the rarefied atmosphere of Davos, the reality of tackling inequality is not at all palatable to elements of the UK’s business community.
So did the 50p rate of tax – introduced by Alistair Darling in 2009 – really raise a “statistically insignificant” sum, as the Independent’s editorial put it?
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.
Two councillors involved in the decision to close Sulivan school have some serious questions to answer about personal interests.
I won’t be playing the world’s smallest violin for those affected by the proposed 50p tax rate, and neither should you.
We should welcome Larry Summers showing how incoherent this chancellor’s economic policy really is.
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
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.
