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Sinn Fein retain Mid Ulster on record low turnout
Sinn Fein has won the Mid Ulster by-election with a sharply reduced majority on a record low turnout, with almost half of the electorate not voting at all.
The Week in Washington: Obama and GOP talk budget, filibuster fails to block CIA director and more
Left Foot Forward’s Larry Smith gives his weekly US politics round up.
Elizabeth Warren: Drug dealers go to jail while bankers sleep in their beds at night
American senator Elizabeth Warren has launched a scathing attack on US bank regulators for allowing British bank HSBC to continue doing business in the U.S. despite confessing to what one regulator called “egregious” money laundering violations.
Vince Cable’s New Statesman article makes plain the need for a new economic strategy
Against the backdrop of the loss of the triple-A rating much coveted by Conservative Ministers – and trivialised by others – Cable is right again. Wednesday’s remarkable New Statesman article makes plain the case for a new economic strategy, and the need for as elegant as possible a reversal of Osbornomics that was itself eclipsed by Cable in the economic debates of 2010.
Britain will be left behind if it doesn’t support the financial transaction tax
It’s time Britain joined the other major economies of Europe in introducing the Financial Transactions Tax to help pay down the deficit. The other option is to continue to cripple its poorest citizens.
How the Left learnt to stop worrying and love Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Zizek is accepted as left-wing, even a kind of Marxism, because most Marxists long ago abandoned the rational and material values of the social democratic Second International.
Look Left – El Comandante, Payday lenders and immigration
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
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David Cameron is being totally disingenuous on food banks
Yesterday during Prime Minister’s Questions, David Cameron responded to a question on food banks by claiming that the use of food banks increased “ten times under Labour”.
When Cameron says this he is factually correct. He is being totally disingenuous, however.
People in Guildford don’t vote BNP
Yesterday Ed Miliband made another step in reframing Labour’s position on immigration. With Ukip surging in the polls and likely to come first in next year’s European elections, and the media already beginning their racist attacks on Bulgarians and Romanians, Labour has a choice. They can follow the Conservatives in drifting to the right in the hope of choking off Ukip support or they can offer a positive, more progressive alternative that deals with concerns over immigration but in a wider context.