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Look Left: MP’s pay, Egypt and UKIP’s toxic underbelly
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
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Nick Griffin: Money from Assad ‘won’t show up until this year’s accounts are published’
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party (BNP), has been talking and writing about Syria an awful lot of late. But he’s been talking and writing about Syria an awful lot more since he returned from a visit to the country last month.
Private landlords colonising housing market, preventing first time buying
Private landlords are out bidding first-time buyers and pushing house prices out of the reach of many young people, according to a new report.
Egypt: Don’t confuse democracy with the mere holding of elections
Recently we’ve seen the emergence of another kind of autocrat. Neither democrat nor dictator, this type of leader holds regular elections and in some cases even introduces ostensibly progressive policies.
Petition sent to Duncan Smith over disability assessments
The disabled people’s benefits assessment has once again come under fire, with the launch of a petition calling Iain Duncan Smith to stop the benefits re-assessment of people living with mental illness.
Trade unionism is not about creating even more divisions based on nationality
Trade unions are about solidarity. The very name of our movement is symbolic of the fact that we are bound together by ties that go beyond nationality or location.
Islamist extremists score their first political success in the UK – moderate muslims abandoned by home secretary
At last a well orchestrated campaign by a small group of Islamic zealots has succeeded in closing the licit importation of khat, the mild naturally occurring stimulant that has been used in Ethiopia, Kenya and Yemen for millennia.
Support progressives in Israel by all means, but don’t vilify boycotts
The idea of nations and peoples cooperating instead of fixating on individual respective national interests is popular in trade union movements due to the strongly held principles of solidarity that come with trade unionism.
How pre-distribution could boost the wage share
There has been much discussion of the merits of prioritising ‘pre-distribution’ – of attempting to achieve a more equal distribution of the cake before turning to ‘redistribution’ through tax and benefits.