Who are Reform’s biggest donors?
Reform UK’s donors this quarter include crypto investor Christopher Harborne, the owner of the Daily Mail’s wife and Sotheby’s
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Improving access to mental health services – it’s time to act now
Whilst I disagree fundamentally with many of the government’s reforms to the NHS, a distraction and expense the health service does not need, there is one commitment I do support and one for which ministers must firmly be held to account.
Why it’s right to extend hate crime legislation to members of subcultures
Hate crime is when someone is targeted because the assailant hates ‘what’ that person is or what the assailant perceives them to be.
In some quarters, there has been an expression of dismay that Manchester Police will now record criminal acts against subcultures as hate crimes, where there is evidence of this.
This week’s most read: The Daily Mail, Paolo Di Canio and the minimum wage
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
Is the Daily Mail killing children?
No. Obviously not. Saying such a thing would constitute sensationalist reporting of the crudest kind, and I’m not going to resort to that.
But remember this:
Just how out of touch is George Osborne?
While I don’t believe the criticism Osborne has received is in any way a distraction from the wider issues (if anything it’s an indictment of his inability to empathise with disabled shoppers), I thought it worth a quick look at just how out of touch this government is policy wise.
Tax avoidance and the myth of trickle down wealth
The files released from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) may finally put faces to the offshore accounts scandal whose numbers are quite astounding.
A recent report by the Tax Justice Network found that the equivalent to the total combined GDP of U.S. and Japan is being hidden away by those rich enough to use offshore accounts.
Cyprus, the communists and anti-European populism
We know the drill now. A eurozone member finds itself in dire financial straits. A cabal of finance ministers, European officials, domestic technocrats and global financiers pushes the stricken national government towards severe public spending cuts and tax rises. The social unrest caused by these policies bleeds into some form of populism, be it left-orientated (Syriza in Greece; 15M in Spain), right-orientated (Golden Dawn in Greece) or somewhere in the fuzzy middle (Beppe Grillo in Italy).
LFF’s James Bloodworth discusses welfare and the Philpott family on BBC News
Left Foot Forward’s James Bloodworth discusses the welfare and the Philpott family on BBC News alongside Harriet Sergeant.
Look Left – Paolo Di Canio, Michael Philpott and making work pay…by cutting the minimum wage
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
Would staff at Sittingbourne really be better off as a result of Osborne’s tax and benefits changes?
This week, the Chancellor spoke to staff working at a supermarket depot in Sittingbourne, Kent, about changes to the tax and benefits system. But would staff at Sittingbourne really be better off as a result of Osborne’s tax and benefits changes?