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We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.
Pandering to anti-migrant sentiment is hurting the British economy.
Miliband’s challenge will be persuading people that government can make a difference without simply throwing money at things.
Moving beyond the market need not mean turning back the clock to a highly centralised state-run model.
The government wants to push young adult offenders into a probation service modelled on the failed work programme.
Alex Salmond’s dream of an independent Scotland could be slipping through his fingers.
The DWP isn’t just off the rails but careering down the embankment.
So what does a 21st Century Caliphate have in store for us?
Ed Miliband must show that he can succeed where so many before him have struggled.
IDS has “plunged thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens into the most abject penury”, said the Labour MP.
The widening gap between rich and poor reflects a decline in trade union power, so argue the authors of the bestselling book The Spirit Level.
