Posts by David Taylor
David is Chair of the Labour Campaign for International Development; he formerly worked as a campaigner for Oxfam and Wada Na Todo (the national campaign against poverty in India), and as a student activist with People & Planet on Fairtrade.
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Most read this week
- The DWP’s ‘scrounger’ rhetoric is causing real harm
- The government’s drug policy favours dogma over harm reduction
- Climate change sceptics and rural romantics – the Tories are a shambles on renewable energy
- Polls apart? The news for the SNP might not be as good as it looks
- Don’t believe the spin – the health reforms are Cameron’s just as much as Lansley’s
Best of the web
Polling Observatory #11: When is a tie not a tie? – Rob Ford, Will Jennings and Mark Pickup, Ballots and Bullets
UKIP MEP makes Euro Parliament speech on booze and drugs cocktail – Political Scrapbook
Desperately Seeking Dalston: A Field Study – Frank Jacobs, Strange Maps
Daniel Radcliffe ends support for Liberal Democrats – Ben Quinn, The Guardian
Benefits: In Defence of the Fake Disabled – Jason Reed, Huffington Post UK
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