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Why Thatcher’s children are key to Labour’s future
If Labour is to win in 2015, it will need to win over 25 to 44 year olds.
Football can no longer be blind to human rights abuses
By projecting a positive image of themselves in the UK, repressive regimes in the Gulf are bolstering their efforts to stay in power.
ConDem policies leave local authorities ‘decimated’
As the Labour faithful meets in Brighton this week, one of the party’s council leaders has warned that local authority-run services face being ‘decimated’ the way Thatcher destroyed many nationalised industries in the 1980s.
After Glasgow: What did the left get out of the Lib Dem conference?
Gareth Epps of the Social Liberal Forum takes a look back at what the left got out of this week’s Lib Dem conference in Glasgow.
This week’s most read: Melanie Phillips, school dinners and benefit fraud
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
Labour to scrap hated Bedroom Tax
Ed Miliband will use a speech at party conference on Saturday to commit a future Labour government to repealing the coalition’s Bedroom Tax.
Scottish Labour needs to make itself relevant this weekend
When Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont address’s the Labour faithful in Brighton this weekend, she will be faced with two key challenges.
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Goodbye Mel, we won’t miss you: A look back at Melanie Phillips’s greatest hits
James Bloodworth looks back at the five best/worst Melanie Phillips columns.
Government projections fall short of climate change targets
This week’s release of new ‘Energy and Emissions Projections’ from the government highlights some major concerns with the UK’s electricity policies.