Each year for the last eight years I have convened a panel to compile a list of the Top 100 Most Influential People on the Left. This year our panel was comprised of a Member of Parliament, a local government
Canada’s most widely read newspaper, The Toronto Star, is lamenting the lack of racial crime statistics aggregated by various levels of government. Over two decades ago, the newspaper was instrumental in facilitating outrage from the left over a revelation that police in Toronto were collecting statistics about race and crime.
A former Canadian Liberal legislator is calling for a permanent ban on political television and radio ads in Canada, citing the status quo of restrictions on political messaging in Britain as his model. In Britain, John Milloy says, “major political parties” are each apportioned an equal amount of time by on government-licensed television stations to make their pitches.
It has been a busy week for the National Union of Students (NUS). Yesterday it received a scolding from the prime minister on national television. Now it has much bigger concerns: so-called Zionist soft drinks. Representatives voted Monday to “censor” and force
Acting party leader, Harriet Harman, has said Labour should “listen” to the electorate and “not oppose” Tory benefit cuts. Activists and candidates in the leadership race – apart from unpopular Blairite Liz Kendall – have reacted with revulsion to the
Left-wingers are being asked to help telecommunications company CREDO Mobile decide how to distribute a bit of its wealth in July among three of its favorite organizations: the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Zinn Education Project.
The BBC is a lefty haven taken hostage by liberal “group think” and dysfunctional governance. It’s a criticism often voiced by those with a dislike for the lavishly-funded national broadcaster – including UKIP leader Nigel Farage – but now a former
LONDON, United Kingdom – Organisers claimed that nearly 250,000 people marched through central London today, with their ‘anti-austerity’ march culminating in speeches from left-wing politicians and celebrities in Parliament Square this afternoon. Breitbart London was at the scene. What follows
Charlotte Church has spoken out about her new-found interest in politics, describing a sudden desire to become a social justice warrior. The Welsh singer also wants to undermine the Conservative government using dancing, fun “and a little bit of hedonism”.
The “progressive” movement sustains itself on the idea that it is standing up against abuses of power by the wealthy and well-connected, that it defends the rights of the most vulnerable, that it stops special interests from taking over the state. And yet the “progressive” administration of Barack Obama has done all that, and more. It has not just committed ordinary hypocrisy, selling out its principles or breaking its promises: worse, it has often fulfilled them, blind to the consequences.
