Dress Down Friday

David Cameron’s wife keeps some of her campaign reading material handy – some great stuff about imposing immigration caps in there.

More immigrants = less BNP. Yay!

The Institute for Public Policy Research  have been analysing support for the BNP and trying to determine what causes communities to turn towards the far-right. You can see their findings here. The BNP would have us believe they are supported by people whose communities are over-run with immigrants and asylum seekers. But they’re lying. The [...]

Who the Hell is… Albert Einstein?

Today we’re reviving a regular feature you used to see the in the classic (pre-blog, paper only) version of Leftfield. “Who the Hell is…” brings you the low down on key folk who’ve tried to make a difference to the world in the past. Previous people we’ve profiled have included Delegate Zero/Subcommandante Marcos, and Che [...]

The neoliberal parties have no answer on poverty and inequality

This evening I was at a ‘question time’  hustings at Aberdeen College, with an audience of around 100 social science students and staff, as well as student representatives from Aberdeen’s universities and the NUS. It was only the second event of that kind that I had ever done, and it was the first time I [...]

Thailand update: Return of the Yellow Shirts

As Leftfield has already reported, the centre of the Thai capital Bangkok has been locked down for weeks now, as hundreds of thousands of Thais, mostly from the rural and urban poor, have camped out in mass protests. The Red Shirts, as they are known, demand the immediate dissolution of parliament, and fresh elections. The [...]

Liveblog Round 4: The Final Countdown…

The final leader’s debate is TONIGHT and we will once more be bringing you all the best bits LIVE. Tonight’s debate is meant to be about economic affairs. It will probably just be deja vu all over again as we see the three stooges squabble amongst themselves over who can be the most right-wing and [...]

Corporate culture industry exploits child abuse for political gain

Christian Engström, a Swedish MEP for the Pirate Party, reports how a Danish anti-piracy lawyer explained at an American Chambers of Commerce seminar in 2007 that the music and film industries were cynically exploiting the sexual abuse of children for political gain. “Child pornography is great,” said Johan Schlüter, a lawyer for the Danish Anti-Piracy [...]

What's the cradle of Western Civilisation worth to capitalism? "Junk"

Greece is known throughout the world as the birthplace of democracy, the cradle of western art, science, literature, drama and philosophy. It’s a beautiful country, with a healthy and delicious cuisine. What does capitalism think of Greece? “Junk”. Yesterday Greece’s credit rating was downgraded to “junk” status, meaning that international markets think the government will [...]

Gordon Brown lays an egg of solid fuck

Catastrofuck in the government! Today, Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a huge cock up when he, after being filmed talking to an OAP about her concerns (her pension, her grandkid’s uni debt, the Eastern Europeans..) was then caught on microphone in his car calling her a “bigoted woman”. This issue is a bit delicate. Undoubtedly [...]

Apartheid Arizona

The US state of Arizona has just passed some of the strictest anti-immigrant laws in US history, in a move that enshrines racism in law. Throughout the US it’s well known that migration cops use racial profiling to target people who have the most brown skin or look the most like they might have some [...]

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