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By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Moments before PMQs began the news reported that twelve journalists and policemen had been shot, due to their controversial cartoon satire. The PM condemned the attack, as did Ed. Prior to the terrorist atrocity the only story leading the news was the NHS crisis and Ed would not let the Cameron bury bad news today. Almost every Labour (and Lib) question focused on the problems in our health service. In the early exchanges there was...

By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic Fanatically 'anti' fans are making non-league clubs in London increasingly political. London is no stranger to the inexplicable mix of politics and football. Class warfare, religious differences, industrial disputes; the terraces of London’s football clubs are the people’s benches of Westminster. But of late, the once concealed relationship between football and politics has come to the fore in the shape of left-leaning Ultra fans. Ultras are typically the type of sports fans...

By Elsa Buchanan, International Politics reporter How a Brazilian sporting event company went from being FIFA’s darling to its backbiter They had hired men dressed as Amazon trees, indigenous canoes and R&B singer Jennifer Lopez. On the night of the 12 June, excitement must have reached fever pitch at Team Spirit, the go-to company responsible for organising the opening and closing ceremonies at the FIFA World Cup in Brazil. But the elation was short-lived for the Brazilian sport marketing and events...

By Darragh Roche Schoolchildren are the latest to ridicule UKIP, and the parody keeps on coming. Nigel Farage now has a virtual alter ego as violent racist Nicholas Fromage, star of  a new mobile game. 'UKik' invites players to kick foreigners out of the UK (literally) and send racial stereotypes flying over the decidedly white cliffs of Dover. The Android app was developed by sixth form pupils, but its description page would make any newspaper satirist proud: "Do foreign voices...

 By Andy Irwin Immigration is once again set to be a key theme in the run up to this year’s general election. Backbench Conservatives want a tougher line in order to combat UKIP and Labour is attempting to position itself bizarrely as the ‘natural’ party of resistance against mass immigration. Toxic political narratives and campaigns of misinformation have propped up a profoundly negative way of looking at immigration in this country, particularly outside of London. All the while, families are suffering...

Mike Deverell discusses five reasons why those with less end up paying more In Terry Pratchett’s “Men At Arms” there’s a passage which neatly encapsulates why it’s so expensive to be poor: “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. “Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort...

By Elsa Buchanan, International Politics reporter They have been labelled "Nazis in pinstripes" by members of the government and rally by the thousands against asylum-seekers and the supposed threat of the "Islamification" of Germany. Yet, they are desperate to prove they are not racist to attract a wide range of supporters. Welcome into the world of the fast-growing "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West”, best known under its acronym PEGIDA. In its most recent show of strength, the German-born far-right populist movement attracted...

By Elsa Buchanan, International Politics reporter After initial news reports relayed pictures of the oil spill “catastrophe” in Bangladesh last week, the media have fallen somewhat silent. Disasters are so common in Bangladesh that they go unnoticed. Children covered in fuel oil up to their waist are trying to gather the sticky slick using buckets. Local fishermen, trudging in dark waters, are using pots and sacks to collect the viscous fuel. Yet, it is in the quasi indifference of the international community that an...