Right-to-buy has stoked the housing crisis – but the Tories want to roll it...
Four in ten former council homes sold under right-to-buy are now being rented out by private landlords – at double the price of council rents, new research shows. 40 per cent of housing stock sold to...
View Article40 years since her election, Margaret Thatcher still casts a long shadow over...
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the election of Margaret Thatcher’s Tories. The importance of the 1979 general election as a pivotal point in British politics is being acknowledged by...
View ArticleWhat does the ‘free market’ really mean?
A photographer recently captured something on the floor of Johnson’s car: Britannia Unchained, a publication co-authored in 2012 by five members of the party’s Thatcherite-leaning Free Enterprise...
View ArticlePatriotism and ‘you’ll never walk alone’– a Tory member on what the Left must...
It has been almost a decade of Tory rule. We have been through cuts to government services, major changes to the benefits system and an increase in the number of food banks. And now, after all this...
View ArticleUK misses out on EU funds for ‘just transition’ away from coal
The EU is devoting €100bn to measures to promote a ‘Just Transition’, much of which will be spent on helping regional economies previously reliant on coal production. The European Commission said the...
View ArticleProf Prem Sikka: The UK’s neoliberal coup has eroded democracy and human rights
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. We...
View ArticleDaily Mail columnist’s ahistorical defence of Thatcher torn to shreds
A Mail on Sunday column claiming unions ruled a ‘miserable’ 1970s Britain with ‘an iron fist’ repeats ‘right wing propaganda’ of the period. Following Boris Johnson’s comments about Margaret Thatcher...
View ArticleScottish Government could pardon miners convicted during 1980s strikes
Around 400 miners in Scotland were convicted for their actions during the historic strike that gripped Britain in 1984-85. The defeat of the miners and their union, the NUM, left communities reeling –...
View ArticlePrem Sikka: We’re in the latest stage of a right-wing coup that began in the...
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Last...
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Is the influence of the right-wing media greatly exaggerated?
‘It’s The Sun Wot Won It’, was the infamous front page in 1992, when the tabloid claimed credit for the Conservative Party’s general election victory. Five years later, and the moment that appeared to...
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