Look Left
Look Left is the magazine of Oxford University Labour Club. Published at the end of each term, it aims to provide a platform for discussion, debate and opinion within the club and amongst progressives throughout the university.
Today’s unemployment figures show that it is time for ‘Plan B’
There was further bad news for Osborne today as unemployment increased by 38,000 between April and June, putting the total of unemployed at 2.49 million or 7.9%. It’s just another example of Britain’s sluggish economic recovery under the Coalition government, with the last growth figures as low as 0.2%, as compared to growth in Q3 [...]
Plans for “independent” abortion counselling are anti-women’s welfare. They mustn’t become reality.
Frank Field MP and Nadine Dorries MP are trying to slip changes to the way women access abortion into the Health and Social Care Bill. They must not be successful. At the time of writing, Labour MP Frank Fields is working with Tory MP Nadine Dorries[1] to push through harmless-looking but poisonous changes to the [...]
Rutland on the Riots – Frustration
Frustration is the overriding emotion I have felt during this period of rioting and inexcusable criminal activity in London and other cities around the country – and this frustration seems to flow in all directions. It is foolish to attack politicians for going on holiday; they deserve a break for the work that they do [...]
Labour: still working for women?
Which areas should Labour prioritise in the fight for gender equality?
Power struggles: the transition to low carbon energy in Britain
Where does the government stand on the issue of adapting the energy industry?
Labour can learn from the lessons of the 20′s
Labour’s electoral victory in 1929 was a close-run thing but a bold agenda and hard fought campaign transformed them from a party of relative obscurity into a party of government. Similar bravery needs to be shown 80 years on.
