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Adam Barnett is staff writer for Left Foot Forward. Has written for Private Eye, Dissent, New Statesman, Prospect, and the Independent. Will Straw @wdjstraw is Associate Director for Strategic Development at the Institute for Public Policy Research and Founder of Left Foot Forward. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Progress and was a 2007-08 Fulbright Scholar. His personal blog can be found at RadicalDandy. And you can follow him of Twitter: @aaronjohnpeters. Alexandra is an intern.
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Politics | Kath Raymond Hinton
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A topnotch WordPress.com site. RSS feed for this section. Something is wrong when the ‘independent’ CPS is swayed by a Twitter storm. If everything had gone according to the Met’s plan, three men would today go on trial for stealing food from a rubbish bin. After a sympathetic online story in the Guardian last Tuesday night [ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/three-charged-vagrancy-act-food-skip-iceland. A little over an hour later, the company put out a press statement. It was trying to find o...
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Something is wrong when the ‘independent’ CPS is swayed by a Twitter storm | Kath Raymond Hinton
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A topnotch WordPress.com site. Something is wrong when the ‘independent’ CPS is swayed by a Twitter storm. If everything had gone according to the Met’s plan, three men would today go on trial for stealing food from a rubbish bin. Clutching bags of out-of-date tomatoes, mushrooms and cheese enough for a nice omelette if only they’d managed to find a box or two of cracked eggs the three were arrested last October after climbing a wall to forage for waste food outside an Iceland store. A little over an hou...
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Public Sector | Kath Raymond Hinton
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A topnotch WordPress.com site. RSS feed for this section. Licensing may raise teaching standards but only heads should have the right to hire and fire. But Labour is also anxious not to alienate teachers too much, or for too long. The original plan to create a licensing system came after complaints from headteachers that it was difficult to get rid of poor teaching staff, and that under-performing teachers would simply move schools to avoid sanctions or dismissal. On 13th January 2014. But the health-car...
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Media | Kath Raymond Hinton
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A topnotch WordPress.com site. RSS feed for this section. Something is wrong when the ‘independent’ CPS is swayed by a Twitter storm. If everything had gone according to the Met’s plan, three men would today go on trial for stealing food from a rubbish bin. After a sympathetic online story in the Guardian last Tuesday night [ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/three-charged-vagrancy-act-food-skip-iceland. A little over an hour later, the company put out a press statement. It was trying to find o...
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February | 2014 | Kath Raymond Hinton
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A topnotch WordPress.com site. Archive February, 2014. Would you want policemen like these anywhere near a crime scene? As if the malodorous muddle of Plebgate weren’t bad enough, we’re now told that a cabal of Downing Street policemen may have been whiling away their lonely hours on night duty by swapping pornography. Three officers were arrested in December and a fourth questioned last month after obscene images were found on the men’s smartphones, examined as part of the Plebgate inquiry. The images i...
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SLINGERBLOG: My Labour speech at the office election hustings
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Strategic communications consultant, occasional writer of letters and op-eds, musician and song-writer (semi-retired), political activist (currently taking a break but I'll be back). Friday, 1 May 2015. My Labour speech at the office election hustings. This is an election where expectations nationally, and in this room, are being confounded. Where Ed Miliband smashed the caricature, hugged a Hen party, while Dave forgot his footie team. Where it’s now Labour competence, versus Tory chaos:. If Ed worked h...
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SLINGERBLOG: September 2014
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Strategic communications consultant, occasional writer of letters and op-eds, musician and song-writer (semi-retired), political activist (currently taking a break but I'll be back). Thursday, 25 September 2014. My LabourUncut piece on Phil Collins' stage interview with Chuka Umunna at Labour Conference. Chuka Umunna – A pro on what Labour must be pro if we are to win again. The wit was there, from Collins of course, but while refuting the “nonsense” charge that Labour isn’t sufficientl...It was good to ...
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SLINGERBLOG: February 2015
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Strategic communications consultant, occasional writer of letters and op-eds, musician and song-writer (semi-retired), political activist (currently taking a break but I'll be back). Friday, 20 February 2015. Times letter: government showed Putin and others our weakness in Syria. Http:/ www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article4359508.ece. Friday, 13 February 2015. My Times letter on rape sentencing. Sir, You report that “Britain leads Europe on sending rapists to jail” (Feb 12). Heres my twitter pr...
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SLINGERBLOG: My London Evening Standard letter on valuing humans above statues in Palmyra
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Strategic communications consultant, occasional writer of letters and op-eds, musician and song-writer (semi-retired), political activist (currently taking a break but I'll be back). Friday, 22 May 2015. My London Evening Standard letter on valuing humans above statues in Palmyra. During the Syrian conflict, the international community chose not to intervene as 200,000 people died. But there wouldn’t be a more pathetic image of Western weakness than if action was taken to save Palmyra. I used to play and...
