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We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.
Raul Castro will be speaking today at the Mandela Memorial and David Cameron won’t. Here’s why.
Access to justice and the rule of law, so long preached to other countries, is increasingly fragile in Britain.
In order to fit events into its supposedly ‘anti-imperialist’ worldview in which no one claiming to be opposed to the United States can do any wrong, StWC is willing to indulge fantastical conspiracy theories.
We looked at three arguments being put forward as justification for the pay rise it is recommended MPs receive this week. Oh, and why they’re wrong.
We have three questions that we believe IDS ought to be asked by the committee.
Spanish right-wing ruling Popular Party “laments the loss of Nelson Mandela” on its Twitter account. A few months earlier they voted against naming a street after Mandela – a street called “July 18” (in honour of the day Franco rose against the Republic in 1936).
Western countries are effectively giving corrupt people and companies the tools to steal from their citizens.
Shamik Das looks at Nelson Mandela’s sporting legacy, and the role rugby, cricket and football played in the years following Apartheid.
The re-balancing of the economy which Osborne promised has been all but abandoned.
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
