It is apparently acceptable for Brigitte Bardot to spend decades whipping up racial hatred and still be celebrated as a national icon, perhaps helped by glamour, distance, and nostalgia. But it is unacceptable for Gary Lineker to voice contemporary moral objections to cruelty and injustice.
As ever, responsibility for this alleged civic misery was pinned on a single figure – Sadiq Khan.
Stonewall’s corporate donations more than halved over the past year.
Today we saw yet another disgraceful capitulation by this government to the interests of their friends in big business.
Payday lending has historically been referred to as fringe banking in the United States, but you couldn’t deny it’s anything other than big business today.
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
The government today announced that it will not be introducing legislation on standardised packaging for cigarettes and other tobacco products.
People eat what their parents eat. First of all because children have to eat what they are given by their parents. But also because children pick up habits when they are young which can last a lifetime.
The head of the Better Together campaign has called on those wanting to keep Scotland within the Union to base their case on a positive platform that extols the virtues of membership.
Greater Manchester police has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) following the death of a young man after attending a call out.
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
Look Left, our round up of the week’s politics, will be going out shortly.
Wimbledon is supposed to be about decorum and propriety. And yet it seems that much of the respect that is automatically conferred upon the male tennis fraternity does not extend to women.
