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.
Pick and Mix MPs- By Claire Smith
When Rachel Reeves came and spoke to OULC in Trinity term of 2011 the women’s caucus sat down with her first and discussed some of the finer points of her time in parliament. Apart from one more in a long time of terrible stories of the challenges young female MPs face, I vividly remember her [...]
The Primacy of Social Policy – By Ben Sullivan
If we accept the relatively uncontroversial notion that the main aim of the state should be to improve its citizens’ quality of life, materially and immaterially, all policy eventually becomes social policy. This occurs because quality of life is inherently a social or societal issue; economic ones such as income levels become social as soon [...]
Fallacy and faddism- By Matthew Forrest
There is a belief on much of the ‘radical’ Left that the Arab Spring and the global financial crisis are, in fact, two sides of the same coin. They term this amalgam of phenomena ‘the crisis of neoliberalism’. The theory is that a particular way of running the world, combining capitalist economics and a focus [...]
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?
