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Community organising should be at the heart of the Labour movement as we approach 2015
Community organising can be a source of energy for Labour as we approach 2015.
Scientists take Mail on Sunday to task over ‘completely incorrect’ climate claims
Dr Roz Pidcock of the Carbon Brief has done an exellent job of fisking the Mail on Sunday’s latest piece of climate change denial.
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Another ‘crackdown’ on benefit fraud, yet it accounts for just 0.7 per cent of welfare budget
Why is the government launching yet another crackdown on benefit fraud when it accounts for just a fraction of the welfare budget?
Does the left need a new political party?
Writing in today’s Guardian, Left Foot Forward editor James Bloodworth rejects the idea that there is a need for a new party of the left.
Lewisham Hospital: Jeremy Hunt must disclose his reasons for appeal
It is now over three weeks since Jeremy Hunt appealed against the High Court’s ruling on Lewisham Hospital, and we are still none the wiser as to his grounds of appeal.
Video: Government advisor gives advice on tax avoidance
One of the coalition’s tax advisers has resigned after being secretly filmed offering tips on how to keep money “out of the chancellor’s grubby mitts”.
There was never any question of a ‘veil ban’. The whole thing was a Twitter storm in a teacup
There was never any question of a ‘veil ban’ at Birmingham Metropolitan College.
The clock is ticking – Better Together needs a positive plan
A swing of 5 per cent could decide whether the United Kingdom ‘is dismantled or saved’, according to leading polling expert John Curtice.
Shapps and the press are the ‘absolute disgrace’
Rather than address Raquel Rolnik’s points about the Bedroom Tax, the government has engaged in character assassination.