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James Bloodworth

@J_Bloodworth

James is a political journalist and editor of Left Foot Forward. He has previously written for the Observer, the Independent on Sunday, the Irish Independent, the Huffington Post, Red Pepper and Jacobin.

Queen Elizabeth delivers the Queen's Speech next to Prince Phillip during the State Opening of Parliament in the Palace of Westminster in London
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A Queen's Speech which exposed this government for what it really is

Anjem Choudary leaves a press conference in Millbank Studios in 2010
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The BBC’s Mark Easton is right to compare Anjem Choudary to Gandhi

Leader of the opposition Labour Party Ed Miliband, speaks after retaining his seat of Doncaster North at the counting centre at Doncaster Racecourse
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Labour didn't lose the election because of Scotland, but because of

Lutfur Rahman was found to have engaged in election corruption and barred from office
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Lutfur Rahman played the Islamophobia card to silence his critics. And

Jeremy Clarkson outside Number 10
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'Bring Back Clarkson' petition: God forbid Jeremy Clarkson ever goes

Mohammed Emwazi has been named as Jihadi John
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Was Mohammed Emwazi really 'radicalised'? Or is he just a sick loser?

Police forensic technicians examine bullet holes in the door to Krudttønden café in Copenhagen
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Copenhagen shootings: What do all acts of terrorism have in common

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If I were Prime Minister: I would stop the rich getting all the best

Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras
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Syriza's victory in Greece might not be the radical revolution you

John Chilcot announcing the terms of reference of his inquiry into the causes of the Iraq war in 2009
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Iraq inquiry: Minds were made up a decade ago. Chilcot won’t change

David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt
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If you've got cancer, you can now prepare to die earlier because of

Katie Hopkins was recently praised by Donald Trump.
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Katie Hopkins' views are now considered matters for law enforcement,

Economy drive: Cuba may soon be changing
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Cuba: Obama gets it - the best way to defeat the Castro brothers is to

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Cuba: Obama gets it - the best way to defeat the Castro brothers is to

Economy drive: Cuba may soon be changing
Will he he won't he? He won't
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#CameronMustGo: Step away from Twitter and close down your laptop —

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Shutting down abortion debates and banning the SWP - what a terrible

Ed Miliband, the Leader of the Labour Party, delivers a speech at the 'Policy Network Conference' held in the Science Museum on July 3, 2014
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Ed Miliband might make you cringe, but if you care about inequality

Winton, aged 105, presented with Order of the White Lion by the Czech president in Prague
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We celebrate our ‘British Schindler’ Sir Nicholas Winton, but

Winton, aged 105, presented with Order of the White Lion by the Czech president in Prague
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We celebrate our ‘British Schindler’ Sir Nicholas Winton, but

Russell Brand was in typically combative form during his promotional interview with Newsnight's Evan Davis
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Russell Brand's incoherent and scattergun approach to politics is

Kurdish men look towards Kobani from the Turkish-Syrian border as US-led bombing grows in intensity
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War with Isis: Why should anyone have faith in the left if it

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un applauds during the second meeting of security personnel of the Korean People's Army
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The Conservatives’ plan to scrap the Human Rights Act will be

Assad has overseen a civil war in which 190,000 people have died
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Syria air strikes: Bashar al-Assad is not the 'lesser evil', but a

Pro-independence supporters wave Scottish flags in Glasgow's George Square, in Scotland, on September 17, 2014.
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Scottish referendum results: A change is gonna come – it’s GOT to

A member loyal to the Isis waves an Isis flag in Raqqa
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Why does Isis hate us so much?

A young Palestinian boy walks over debris from a house that was destroyed in an airstrike in Deir Al Balah
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The Middle East debate has more to do with the fashion for

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Unreliable boyfriends and other dreadful political metaphors

A member loyal to the Isis waves an Isis flag in Raqqa
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Why does Isis hate us so much?

A young Palestinian boy walks over debris from a house that was destroyed in an airstrike in Deir Al Balah
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The Middle East debate has more to do with the fashion for

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Unreliable boyfriends and other dreadful political metaphors

An image posted on a militant website appears to show Isis fighters leading away captured Iraqi soldiers for execution in Tikrit
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Who is and who isn’t to blame for Isis being in Iraq

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Who is and who isn’t to blame for Isis being in Iraq

An image posted on a militant website appears to show Isis fighters leading away captured Iraqi soldiers for execution in Tikrit
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It's time to bust some myths about benefit fraud and tax evasion

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Meritocracy myth: The rich will always get richer and the poor will

No political games: Alex Salmond, champion of the Scottish independence referendum
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Don’t be fooled, Alex Salmond is no socialist

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Putin is turning both left and right-wingers into apologists for

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Putin is turning both left and right-wingers into apologists for

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Unless Labour addresses burgeoning inequality, it will not reclaim the

Syrians look through rubble following a reported airstrike attack by governmenet forces on Daraya, southwest of the capital Damascus
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Syria: West's kneejerk peaceniks have some explaining to do

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When will Eurosceptics realise that era of nation state is over?

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The left has a blind spot on Venezuela. When will it acknowledge that

Abu Qatada is the face of Islamic extremism in the UK. But others go unnoticed by the left
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Why is the left so blinkered to Islamic extremism?

RAC data finds 800 more people would be killed or seriously injured each year without cameras
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Speed cameras: The right's blind spot

Flowers and tributes left at the site of Lee Rigby's murder in Woolwich
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Woolwich: It’s about time the left spoke out against religious

Ukip leader Nigel Farage in laughjing mood after the by-election result in Eastleigh, Hampshire
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Ukip wins hearts, not minds

Leader of the Labour Party Clement Attlee chatting with workers during a tour of his constituency in 1944
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The spirit of '45 is not enough. The Left must come to terms with a

Smoke covers the presidential palace compound during a massive US-led air raid in Baghdad 21 March 2003.
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The war in Iraq was wrong. But the anti-war movement has very little

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These eulogies for Chavez give the Left a bad name

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These eulogies for Chavez give the Left a bad name

A man in Ansongo on January 29, 2013 cheers the anticipated arrival of troops from Niger.
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French intervention in Mali is not colonialism. The Islamists really

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The Game and Real Social dynamics: Is the seduction community pushing

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With rates of social mobility stagnant, it’s time to admit we got it

A sign outside a 'Speedy Cash' cash loans shop on Brixton High Street
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As benefits dry up, Wonga will prosper: 2013 could be the year of the

A sign outside a 'Speedy Cash' cash loans shop on Brixton High Street
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As benefits dry up, Wonga will prosper: 2013 could be the year of the

A young woman walks past a campaign banner against female genital mutilation [FGM] at the venue of an International conference, 16 September 2004 in Nairobi.
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Three cheers for the UN: female genital mutilation is male insecurity

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Cigarette companies ordered to apologise, but is junk food the new

A drunk man sleeps on the street
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A minimum price for booze? That's just middle class puritanism

Boys inspect the rubble in Gaza City
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Israel, Hamas, and why the conflict in Gaza needs less ideological

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War is never glorious, so why we do we bully those who protest against

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Natanz nuclear plant in 2007
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Iran and the nuclear threat will define President Obama’s second

<p>Christopher Hitchens had been undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer</p>
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It's time to give Christopher Hitchens a statue

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Print journalism is becoming a luxury few can afford

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Don't forget there's a dark side to Hugo Chavez's Venezuela

Miners' pickets outside Salford Colliery in Lancashire during a national strike, 11th February 1974.
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Is class politics still relevant? Well yes and no

Writer Salman Rushdie speaks at his work at The 2009 New Yorker Festival
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Today everyone wants to defend Salman Rushdie. It was not always like

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Today everyone wants to defend Salman Rushdie. It was not always like

Writer Salman Rushdie speaks at his work at The 2009 New Yorker Festival
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Porn for women is here to stay

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Homophobia exacts a chilling price as hate crimes climb

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