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LC Investigation: Dorries claimed £70K for PR company services in 2½ Years by Unity

A detailed examination of expenses claims submitted by Nadine Dorries, the Conservative MP for Mid-Bedfordshire, indicates that she submitted almost £70,000 in expenses claims for services provided by two public relations companies in the 2½ years from November 2006 to June 2009.
These claims include more £20,000 for services provided by a PR company, set-up by [...]

Both Labour and Conservatives are failing on housing by Jenny Jones AM

I was shocked when I found that eight years of Ken as Mayor and ten years of the current government saw the housing waiting lists double and house prices spiral out of control. But with Boris now in office and cuts to the budget threatening to wipe out the affordable housing programmes, this bleak story looks set to get even worse.

In my recent report, Coming home to roost, I showed how the policies of two Mayors of London have failed to deliver secure, safe, comfortable housing.

Behind the BBC poll on climate change by Guest

contribution by Climate Sock

Another week, another shonky poll? On Friday the BBC reported their new survey, which they claimed showed a clear drop in the number of people who believe in climate change or that it’s man-made.

After the BBC’s inaccurate coverage of a climate poll last year, I was ready for this to be another bit of mis-reporting ripe for a take-down.

The rise of Labour’s new class by Neil Robertson

If you trawl Liverpool FC’s unofficial fan forums, it won’t be long before you stumble upon a long thread lamenting the lack of scousers in the squad.

You can see shades of this frustration in the backlash over Luciana Berger’s selection as Labour’s candidate for Liverpool Wavertree.

We need to drop the ‘tick-box’ approach to equality by Guest

contribution by Simon Fanshawe & Danny Sriskandarajah

Last week we published a report through ippr suggesting that we really did need to catch up in our approach to identity and how we foster diversity and tackle inequality.

Our central point was to question the belief that our identities any longer fit neatly into ‘tick boxes’ or that equality issues fit neatly into ‘strands’. Doing this produces a simplistic and sometimes false picture of disadvantage.

Why lefties should question the role of the state by Guest

contribution by Luis Enrique

The appropriate role of government in the economy is a fundamental question, and one that should excite the interest of LC readers.

In the interminable blog war between libertarians and statists, there are two polarized positions that all sensible people should disavow….

BNP employ Neo Nazi activist at City Hall by Adam Bienkov

Meet Tess Culnane, former National Front candidate, long-time Neo Nazi, anti head lice campaigner and the new employee of BNP London Assembly member Richard Barnbrook.

Culnane is the latest and most extreme member of the BNP to be employed at the Greater London Authority, since Barnbrook was elected in 2008.

Revealed: MEP praises French attack on Greenpeace that killed activist – updated by Sunny H

Godfrey Bloom is a UK Independence Party MEP from Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire.

Recently he made a video (below) standing in front of a Greenpeace boat that praised the French for sinking one of them in the past. Here, we publish the disgusting video.

On ‘Judicial Activism’ and the Common Law by Unity

There’s something I’ve been meaning to have a bit of a rant about for a while, and after listening George Galloway’s verbal excrescences on tonight’s Question Time I can hold back no longer.

If you live in England and you genuinely think that there is something deeply and desperately wrong with the idea of judges making law then you are, without question, an ignorant, mouth-breathing moron who knows nothing of this country’s history and even less about its legal and judicial system.

I’m not making this up, honest by Don Paskini

“But his ideas are often so concentrated that they need to be diluted.

“For a while, Hilton argued that Cameron’s first Queen’s Speech should contain no bills, to show that the Tories did not think legislation was the answer to the country’s problems.”

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Women, political blogging and the future of the left. by Laurie Penny

I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time these days sitting in sessions about New Media and politics in which men tell women why women don’t blog. The New Media debate at the Progressive London conference this month was exciting, and uplifting, and full of cutting-edge ideas about How to Use the Internet to Re-energise the British Left, and at the end of his speech, Andy Newman made a little, throwaway comment which made me feel as if all the air had been kicked out of my chest in one go.

“Not many women are really involved in blogging, because the blogosphere is quite pugnacious.”
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