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Internet freedom on Edward Snowden’s flight path
Regardless of what you think of Edward Snowden’s actions (fairly honourable, in my view), the attempt to hide out in countries with some fairly questionable records on media freedom is raising eyebrows.
Owen Jones calls on the left to unite against austerity
Chavs author, Independent writer and Labour activist Owen Jones talked to Salman Shaheen about the People’s Assembly and the prospects for resistance to austerity
Don’t turn Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer into free speech martyrs
The anti-fascist campaign group Hope Not Hate (HNH) has started a petition to prevent two American bloggers from being given permission to enter the UK.
The shadow health team should show leadership on the issue of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Standfirst: Today is the start of the first ever national Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week. With this in mind Jamie Hewitt, government affairs manager at the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS), looks at the challenges of raising public awareness about the disease and sets out why politicians need to do more.
Johann Lamont: SNP need to ‘grow up’
Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont has called on SNP backbenchers at Holyrood to grow up and stop sucking up to the Scottish government.
Does democracy hinder progressive governance?
Is Barack Obama as bad as, or even worse than George W. Bush?
This question has been asked by many liberals since the Prism revelations. One way to answer this question is to look at a range of policies (torture, detention without trial, regime change, extra-judicial killings), figure out which is the ‘Left’ position and the ‘Right’ position, and then plot where Bush and Obama belong on the spectrum.
They’re called ‘primary’ schools for a reason
If we are serious about raising school results, we’ll have to target resources towards early years and catch-up classes in primary schools. This will require the government to make tough decisions about spending on secondary education.
We should be supporting progressive forces in Israel, not boycotting them
In a long standing tradition, internationalism has been about campaigning for peace, cooperation, economic development and education.
This week’s most read: Dan Hodges, sexist advertising and QE
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
We can’t just build our way out of this housing crisis
Do you want to wait thirty years until house prices are at affordable levels again? I doubt many priced out renters in the capital would be happy to put up with the status quo for that long, but that could be the prospect if we just rely on building more homes to solve the housing crisis.