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This week’s most read: The Sun ashamed of its own poll, Cameron’s public health U-turns and Miliband’s dithering on Syria
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
How attractive is Britain to ‘benefit tourists’?
It’s been reported that work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith is to challenge the EU commissioner Laszlo Andor after the latter, along with his fellow commissioners, announced that the commission would be taking Britain to court for discriminatory practices in its application of regulations on welfare payments.
The Week in Washington: AG Holder denies perjury claims, Obama pushes for judges and more
Larry Smith’s weekly round up of American politics.
EU benefits are ‘land grab’ by Brussels, says Duncan Smith
The EU Commissioner for employment and social affairs, Laszlo Andor, is taking the British government to court over what it says are discriminatory practices in its application of regulations on welfare payments.
UK construction industry shrinks 10 per cent under coalition
The UK construction industry has shrunk by ten per cent under the coalition and construction output is now at its lowest level since 1998, according to new analysis by the TUC.
Anti-Muslim incidents and the Woolwich attack: an initial appraisal
There’s no one, easy solution to this problem, and the origins of hatred and prejudice are extremely complex. However the first step should be to recognise that anti-Muslim incidents like these are a serious problem in their own right, and in a just and fair society, no one should be subject to this sort of violence and prejudice.
Half of Telegraph readers belief climate change a ‘natural phenomenon’. 98% of scientists disagree
On the back of chairman of the Commons Energy and Climate Change committee Tim Yeo’s comments that climate change may not be man-made after all, the Telegraph have done a poll asking its readers if they think the same.
Look Left: ring-fencing the NHS and schools budget, CO2 emissions and intervention in Syria
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
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Very little link between migration levels and attitudes to immigration
Much like the assertion that nobody can talk about immigration without being accused of being a racist (if anything immigration is talked about too much relative to its impact), the idea that public concern about immigration is related to the numbers of migrants settling in the UK appears also to be a myth.