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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James BloodworthA Queen's Speech which exposed this government for what it really is

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James BloodworthThe BBC’s Mark Easton is right to compare Anjem Choudary to Gandhi

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James BloodworthLabour didn't lose the election because of Scotland, but because of

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James BloodworthLutfur Rahman played the Islamophobia card to silence his critics. And

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James Bloodworth'Bring Back Clarkson' petition: God forbid Jeremy Clarkson ever goes

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James BloodworthWas Mohammed Emwazi really 'radicalised'? Or is he just a sick loser?

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James BloodworthCopenhagen shootings: What do all acts of terrorism have in common

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

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James BloodworthSyriza's victory in Greece might not be the radical revolution you

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James BloodworthIraq inquiry: Minds were made up a decade ago. Chilcot won’t change

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James BloodworthIf you've got cancer, you can now prepare to die earlier because of

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James BloodworthKatie Hopkins' views are now considered matters for law enforcement,

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

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James Bloodworth#CameronMustGo: Step away from Twitter and close down your laptop —

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James BloodworthShutting down abortion debates and banning the SWP - what a terrible

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James BloodworthEd Miliband might make you cringe, but if you care about inequality

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James BloodworthWe celebrate our ‘British Schindler’ Sir Nicholas Winton, but

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James BloodworthRussell Brand's incoherent and scattergun approach to politics is

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James BloodworthWar with Isis: Why should anyone have faith in the left if it

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James BloodworthThe Conservatives’ plan to scrap the Human Rights Act will be

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James BloodworthSyria air strikes: Bashar al-Assad is not the 'lesser evil', but a

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James BloodworthScottish referendum results: A change is gonna come – it’s GOT to

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James BloodworthDon’t be fooled, Alex Salmond is no socialist

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James BloodworthWhy does Isis hate us so much?

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James BloodworthThe Middle East debate has more to do with the fashion for

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James BloodworthUnreliable boyfriends and other dreadful political metaphors

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

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James BloodworthIt's time to bust some myths about benefit fraud and tax evasion

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James BloodworthMeritocracy myth: The rich will always get richer and the poor will

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James BloodworthPutin is turning both left and right-wingers into apologists for

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James BloodworthUnless Labour addresses burgeoning inequality, it will not reclaim the

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James BloodworthSyria: West's kneejerk peaceniks have some explaining to do

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James BloodworthWhen will Eurosceptics realise that era of nation state is over?

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James BloodworthWoolwich: It’s about time the left spoke out against religious

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

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James BloodworthWhy is the left so blinkered to Islamic extremism?

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James BloodworthSpeed cameras: The right's blind spot

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James BloodworthUkip wins hearts, not minds

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James BloodworthThe spirit of '45 is not enough. The Left must come to terms with a

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James BloodworthThe war in Iraq was wrong. But the anti-war movement has very little

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James BloodworthThese eulogies for Chavez give the Left a bad name

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James BloodworthFrench intervention in Mali is not colonialism. The Islamists really

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James BloodworthThe Game and Real Social dynamics: Is the seduction community pushing

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

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James BloodworthAs benefits dry up, Wonga will prosper: 2013 could be the year of the

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James BloodworthThree cheers for the UN: female genital mutilation is male insecurity

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James BloodworthCigarette companies ordered to apologise, but is junk food the new

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James BloodworthA minimum price for booze? That's just middle class puritanism

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James BloodworthIsrael, Hamas, and why the conflict in Gaza needs less ideological

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

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James BloodworthIran and the nuclear threat will define President Obama’s second

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James BloodworthIt's time to give Christopher Hitchens a statue

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James BloodworthPrint journalism is becoming a luxury few can afford

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

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James BloodworthIs class politics still relevant? Well yes and no

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

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James BloodworthPorn for women is here to stay

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James BloodworthJames Bloodworth: Why single Tony Blair out for protest?

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James BloodworthJames Bloodworth: Despite its popularity, the death penalty would

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James BloodworthJames Bloodworth: The Olympics and the Jubilee distract from the real

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James BloodworthJames Bloodworth: Why do we fetishise meritocracy when most success is

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James BloodworthJames Bloodworth: Trident is a colossal waste of money that will

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James BloodworthJames Bloodworth: Instead of celebrating when Thatcher dies, the left

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James BloodworthJames Bloodworth: It’s not the Labour left that’s stuck in a time

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James BloodworthJames Bloodworth: Westfield - the brave new world of…stuff

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