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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

The Departed

Fidel Castro: 1926 - 2016

James Bloodworth | Published Nov 26, 2016

Cuba Does Russia’s Dirty Work. Again.

Same Old, Same Old

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 | Published Oct 16, 2015

David Cameron: Historic Great or Dud?

HISTORIC?

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 | Published Oct 09, 2015

Open Cuba Doesn’t Mean Free Cuba

Left Illusions

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

James Bloodworth | Published Jul 20, 2015

NATO’s Greatest Failure Repeated?

Bosnia

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

James Bloodworth | Published Jul 09, 2015

The Banana Republic of East London

CORRUPTION

Political correctness and left-wing myopia helped protect Britain’s first democratically-elected Muslim mayor from corruption charges for years. Eventually justice caught up with him.

James Bloodworth | Published May 01, 2015

The Dark Side of Cuba’s Ebola Economy

CASTROCARE

The communist government’s medical missionaries win praise for the regime, but they are victims, too.

James Bloodworth | Published Dec 09, 2014

Putin’s Useful (British) Idiots

None So Blind

From Neville Chamberlain to the pages of today’s ‘Guardian,’ many members of the British elite, left and right, have proved themselves suckers for totalitarianism.

James Bloodworth | Published Aug 15, 2014

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