Look Left – Wonga’s student ‘scam’ comes unstuck
Wonga: Their annoying adverts are everywhere, they continue to prey on the vulnerable, yet this week, we got them to take down a page targeting students.
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Biggs: ‘Boris Tunnel’ is four years late and “doesn’t appear to have any funding”
Labour have criticised Boris Johnson’s delay in approving plans for an east London river crossing, calling the wait “four years longer than it should have been”.
Express editor: We left PCC because it failed to stop us lying
Daily Express editor Hugh Whittow today told the Leveson Inquiry the paper withdrew from the PCC because it failed to stop them publishing defamatory material about the McCanns.
Welfare reform bill in tatters after Lords defeats
Key parts of the welfare reform bill were defeated in the House of Lords last night, reports Shamik Das.
“Delivering fairness in difficult times”: Miliband outlines the “new reality”
Ed Miliband will today warn only Labour can deliver fairness in straitened times, and that whoever wins the next election will have to deal with a big deficit.
Look Left – Boris attacks welfare reforms while Byrne goes the other way
Welfare reform and the coalition’s cuts to disability benefits were one of the leading policy issues in the first week back, with growing opposition.
Liverpool fans backing Suarez, Lefties backing Abbott… When tribalism trumps reason
In the wake of the Luis Suarez and Diane Abbott race rows, Shamik Das looks at the tribal backing received from their supporters, despite being in the wrong.
Stephen Lawrence: The legacy that lives on, the hope, the dreams of a better future
Shamik Das looks at Stephen Lawrence’s legacy of hope for the future, as his racist killers David Norris and Gary Dobson are jailed for his murder.
Syria: When will the West act?
With each passing day, at the dawn of 2012, the future for Syria looks ever bleaker, with President Bashar al-Assad becoming ever more brutal, writes Shamik Das.
Look Left – Look back at the year
Shamik Das presents Left Foot Forward’s progressive of the year, regressive of the year, and our 10 most read stories of the year 2011.