Look Left
Look Left is the blog of Oxford University Labour Club. It aims to provide a platform for discussion, debate and opinion within the club and amongst progressives throughout the university, through a wealth of interviews, opinion pieces and articles.
Britain in the EU – by Ben Whisker
Ben is currently the Campaigns and EL Officer for OULC. He writes a regular blog that can be accessed here. Like John Major, David Cameron’s has found his European policy needlessly derailed by his own party. Unlike Sir John, a weak Mr Cameron has given his backbenchers almost what they wanted at each stage but ultimately [...]
Labour Can Win – by Ben Whisker
Ben is currently the Campaigns and EL Officer for OULC. He writes a regular blog that can be accessed here. After the 2012 local elections, the Conservatives were belittling gains of 824 council seats on the grounds that William Hague led the Conservatives to 1,344 gains in the 1999 local elections only to be defeated in [...]
Interview with Karen Landles – By Dan Turner
What made you join the Labour Party, and why have you chosen to run for an elected position in the EU? Coming from the Rhondda, daughter of a miner, I have always been Labour. Being at Oxford brought home the inequality however, not just between the two areas but within Oxford itself on opposite sides [...]
The government’s welfare policy is based on misinformation and demonisation. Where is Labour’s response? by Sam Bumby
We have a serious problem in our country. Five years after the banking sector collapsed in 2008 we still have over two and a half million people unemployed. We have a government that is economically illiterate, one that is sticking to it’s plan of deficit reduction even as that plan is destroying the fragile recovery [...]
An Alternative Easter Message by Dan Turner
I’m writing this post, secure in my warm bed, from the comfort of my (fully-occupied) home. Today is Easter Monday, and April Fools’ day. Some may think this ironic, but judging by today’s main news stories it probably better reflects the schizophrenic nature of British civilisation. Christians up and down the country celebrate the Resurrection [...]
“YOU’RE LOOKING AT A CONSERVATIVE!” (and they look nothing like you) by Joe Collin
The People’s Flag is Deepest Blue, a piece in this week’s New Statesman by George Eaton, explains the buffoonery currently crippling the Tory party. Despite the pleas of the likes of Lord Ashcroft for the party to modernise, for the party to get the public schooled posh-boy monkey off its back, and appeal once more [...]
This Government is Failing Women – Helena Dollimore
Two women a week are killed by a current or former male partner in this country, one in three will be beaten, coerced into sex, or abused in their lifetime, and nearly half of all young women experience street harassment each year . Domestic violence, sexual violence and harassment affect women in Britain on an [...]
Interview with Margaret Curran- by Jon Metzer
As a former academic at the University of Strathclyde, what made you decide to go into politics? I really enjoyed my time teaching Community Education at Strathclyde University and I thought the best way to take my interest further, was to get involved in a practical sense myself. I believe the Labour Party is the [...]
The Myth of Margaret Thatcher as a ‘Conviction Politician’ —— Joe Collin
In a Radio 4 interview last November, Ed Miliband remarked that Thatcher, “was a conviction politician, and I think conviction really matters.” Ed is simply wrong and we must end this misconception. All “Thatcherism” was, was an exercise in PR. She was not a conviction politician. She did not have a consistently firm anti-European stance. [...]
Lessons from Greece for the Labour party ———- Felix Light
The agenda of national belt tightening stubbornly pursued by the present government, when seen within a broader European and international context, has the potential to appear a somewhat mild and restrained programme, characterized above all by moderation. Indeed, while not wishing to excuse this government for its failings both economic and political, compared to the [...]
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