New group blog puts its Left Foot Forward

Online for a while but launching officially today, Left Foot Forward (twitter) is the latest entrant into an increasingly crowded selection of lefty group blogs. The site takes its inspiration from US blog ThinkProgress, grounding the editorial outlook with a “what we’re fighting for/against” manifesto.

In the video below, editor Will Straw sets out the stall for a perhaps more serious kind of political blog: ”It’s not that we don’t like opinion or gossip, we think that our team of experts can add most value by analysing what’s behind the news and looking at the facts”. You know it’s earnest as he’s located the nearest bookcase for that 15% added gravitas!

Straw will be talking the talk this evening on Sky News at 7:15pm.

(Lefty) policy wonks of the world unite!