Political Scrapbook

http://politicalscrapbook.net/

News and gossip from the Top 10-ranked left wing blog. Edited by Laurence Durnan.

• Top posts
  • Ex-chair of young Tories: “Should the unemployed be allowed to vote?”
  • Boris says questions on NewsCorp sponsorship are “fucking bollocks”
  • DWP letters say “voluntary” workfare scheme is compulsory

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Guy Fawkes' blog

http://www.order-order.com

Parliamentary plots and conspiracy

• Top posts
  • Motorman: Britain’s Biggest Establishment Cover-Up Thousands of Crimes Committed By Over 300 Journalists Protected from Exposure by a Judge and Newspaper Editors
  • Tory/UKIP Defection Runners and Riders
  • John Healey Could Run for Mayor of Sheffield

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Liberal Conspiracy

http://www.liberalconspiracy.org

Left-wing news, opinion and activism

• Top posts
  • Tweeter harassed and prosecuted for swearing
  • Will the return of Respect test Labour left loyalty?
  • Call for English anthem made today

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Max Farquar

http://www.maxfarquar.com/

It is what it is ...

• Top posts
  • Calling Someone The C Word On Twitter Is Now Officially A Crime
  • The Common Purpose Rogues Gallery
  • Surgical Precision

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Left Foot Forward

http://www.leftfootforward.org/

Left Foot Forward is a political blog for progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy developments.

• Top posts
  • Headline unemployment fall is good news, but underlying picture remains grim
  • On jobs, Wales shows Clegg the way
  • After all the months of debate, does the health bill actually stack up in law?

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Labourlist

http://www.labourlist.org/

Labour's biggest independent grassroots e-network

• Top posts
  • Ed Miliband has saved the union link
  • Miliband and McNicol message to staff following Bradford West defeat
  • Bradford debacle: Galloway is right, Labour must listen

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The Green Benches

http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.com

by Dr Éoin Clarke (PhD)

• Top posts
  • Wow! Court rules that Tory NHS Bill was a violation of 2010 Manifesto
  • You think ATOS are bad, wait until Serco get a hold of you
  • Exposed: The 45 NHS Trusts most at risk of Privatisation.

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Liberal Democrat Voice

http://www.libdemvoice.org

Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK.

• Top posts
  • Andrew Wiseman writes: Seeking your views on Conference accreditation
  • Julian Huppert MP writes… Safeguards to control state surveillance
  • “Reports about plans to snoop on your emails are complete nonsense” – Lynne Featherstone writes to Lib Dem members

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ConservativeHome's ToryDiary

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/

• Top posts
  • The London mayoral candidates releasing their tax returns sets an unfortunate precedent
  • The Spectator's Fraser Nelson makes the case for Boris
  • There is no commitment in either the Consevative manifesto or the Coalition Agreement to a Lords reform bill

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The F-Word Blog

http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog

Contemporary UK feminism.

• Top posts
  • Ched Evans conviction: the vitriol after the verdict
  • "Pull up your skirt to prove you're a real woman"
  • We need to talk about women filmmakers: or, two cheers for the BFI's Made in Britain season

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Black Triangle Campaign

http://blacktrianglecampaign.org

Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights

• Top posts
  • As sickness benefit cuts take effect, thousands face hard times
  • Consultation on Leveson Inquiry/press portrayal of disability
  • Sacked by the DWP after 34 years’ service for depression – and then found ‘fit for work’ by DWP/AtoS

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Harry's Place

http://www.hurryupharry.org/

Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear

• Top posts
  • Ten Years Since Something That Never Happened: A Learning Moment for the Guardian
  • Judge at Passover: “nobody” saw Raed Salah blood libel sermon as harmful
  • Ed Miliband Must Expel Lord Ahmed From the Labour Party, Today

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Mark Pack's blog

http://www.markpack.org.uk

All the original stories from my blog (excluding those cross-posted from www.libdemvoice.org)

• Top posts
  • My monthly email newsletter about the Lib Dems – sign up to get no.2
  • Walking: it’s time to take action
  • Why so many Liberal Democrats are angry

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Diary of a Benefit Scrounger

http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/

A site to share information on Welfare cuts, illness, disability and general, current, political thought.

• Top posts
  • One Ermine to Go, please!
  • Surveillance State
  • Running the Pain Gauntlet

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FullFact

http://fullfact.org

Full Fact is a tool to help ordinary people to hold influential groups and individuals to account on the claims made in political debate. We aim to take the spin out of statements and make it easier to see the facts behind a claim. Our main work is to: - Analyse, challenge and expose misleading claims - Enable people to verify or rebut claims and campaign for improved standards

• Top posts
  • Has cycling got safer under Boris Johnson?
  • Questions over Boris briefing on transport crime
  • Are private housing rents rising or falling?

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the void

http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com

'narking off the state since 2005

• Top posts
  • Disabled Protesters Bring Traffic Chaos To Central London
  • Anarchist and Benefit Claimant Online Media Take Over
  • Is Cameron Planning to End Housing Benefit for the Young?

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Labour Uncut

http://labour-uncut.co.uk

Inside Labour Politics

• Top posts
  • Livingstone’s scripted tears
  • Livingstone NIC-ed on tax avoidance
  • Ed’s funding proposals: Nearly but not quite

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Spiderplant Land

http://spiderplantland.co.uk/

Poltical posturing from The Shire of Woking

• Top posts
  • Sir Olly C and the case for free speech in Bexley
  • Free Speech sentenced to death in Bexley
  • Do Nick Clegg and the Parliamentary LibDem Party have an electoral death wish?

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libcom.org

http://libcom.org/

News, archives and discussion on the class struggle. For human beings, not human resources.

• Top posts
  • Worker Insurgency and Statist Containment in Portugal and Spain, 1974-1977 - Loren Goldner
  • Poland, 1980-1982: Class struggle and the crisis of capital - Henri Simon
  • Working: people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do - Studs Terkel

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British politics and policy at LSE

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy

Experts analyse and debate recent developments across UK government, politics and policy

• Top posts
  • The UK needs to develop an industrial policy as visionary and compelling as the German one
  • Think tanks are neglecting cheap and easy social media, and failing to reach out to broader audiences for their work
  • Civil servants are leaving the public sector in droves, highlighting the increasingly troublesome relationship between the executive and the ‘machinery of government’

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