James Bloodworth

James Bloodworth is the Editor of Left Foot Forward, Britain’s most popular centre-left political blog. He’s a contributing editor for Progress and writes regularly for the Independent, the New Statesman and the Guardian. He tweets at @J_Bloodworth

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Adios, Caudillo

Fidel Castro: 1926 - 2016

James Bloodworth

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Same Old, Same Old

Cuba Does Russia’s Dirty Work. Again.

Reports that Cuban forces are now fighting in Syria follow a long history of the Castro brothers working closely with their patrons in Moscow.

James Bloodworth

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David Cameron: Historic Great or Dud?

He has passed massive reforms to the welfare state and played the leader on the world stage, but something always seems to be missing.

James Bloodworth

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Open Cuba Doesn’t Mean Free Cuba

Obama thinks that repression in the Castro regime will decrease as a result of contact with the U.S. He’s wrong.

James Bloodworth

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NATO’s Greatest Failure Repeated?

The excuses, indifference, and utter callousness that met genocide in the Balkans sound eerily familiar in Barack Obama’s Washington.

James Bloodworth