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On Jack Monroe, Jilly Luke and the perils of blogging 27 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm
Two days ago, we published a piece entitled Lentils and lager: why we forgive tax evaders but not benefit claimants by Jilly Luke about the media portrayal of benefit claimants. It has generated quite...
Intervention in Syria, inaction on Egypt speaks volumes about US-UK interests 27 Aug 2013 | 02:49 pm
The war-drums of Western intervention are beating ever louder against Assad, propelled by the 1,400 or more killed by the Syrian military’s chemical weapons attack in Damascus this week, in addition t...
Ed Has a Plan – but he’s not telling us 27 Aug 2013 | 01:58 pm
On his walkabout in South London on 14th August Ed Miliband said “Labour has a plan for economic recovery”. Intrigued by this claim I went to the Labour Party website where, apart from the latest mini...
Labour attack on Tory pay cuts would resonate more if MPs took pay cuts too 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Labour’s at least half right to explode the Tory economy bubble by exclaiming: Recovery? What recovery? OK for bankers’ bonuses, OK for City private equity, OK for investors’ share indices, OK for Tre...
Internet activism, politics and protest 26 Aug 2013 | 08:50 pm
I just want to make some points about this article by Joe Rivers that has appeared on the New Statesman website. Despite its title, ‘Let’s stop pretending internet activism is a real thing’, it’s not...
Can Britain’s recovery be sustained? 26 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
All around there are signs of recovery. One can almost hear the sound of champagne bottles popping and fireworks crackling in the Westminster village. Indicators are improving. Commentators are reasse...
Labour is only half-right: we should shout louder on living standards 26 Aug 2013 | 04:49 am
Labour’s at least half right to explode the Tory economy bubble by exclaiming: Recovery? What recovery? OK for bankers’ bonuses, OK for City private equity, OK for investors’ share indices, OK for Tr...
Lentils and lager: why we forgive tax evaders but not benefit claimants 25 Aug 2013 | 03:54 pm
You don’t need me to tell you that everyone on benefits is a money-grasping sponger. Or that every asylum seeker is parachuted directly into the warm atrium of a North London mansion, and not into the...
Tory bias at the BBC 24 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
The BBC is beholden to an agenda that is anti-British, pro-union, and left-wing. Or so the argument goes. Thing is, there’s no evidence for it. Back in November, I had a bit of fun asking if the BBC’s...
Young Labour: “any weakening of the union link should be opposed” 23 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
The national committee of the Labour Party’s young wing, Young Labour, vowed on Wednesday night “to defend the right of trade union members through their affiliated trade union to take part in the sel...
