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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.
Capitalism’s legitimacy will disintegrate if a tiny elite are allowed to capture the rewards of growth for themselves.
The Met wants to buy weaponry that can injure, blind and even kill.
MLAs will meet at Stormont today to consider the previous UK government’s agreement to write to 187 members of the IRA on the run offering them effective immunity from prosecution.
The government’s child poverty strategy is disappointingly short on new ideas.
Ulster Bank remains the missing part of the RBS story.
The outrage at the arrest of Moazzam Begg is misplaced.
Cameron’s invoking of the Green Investment Bank in defence of his government’s environmental record is ironic given the limitations placed on it by his government.
This week’s announcement by HSBC of the extent to which they are circumventing European Union rules limiting bankers’ bonuses provoked more than usual outrage.
New figures reveal that taxpayers lost billions of pounds in the privatisation of the Royal Mail.
Misunderstanding the nature of this attack may result in politicians pushing through legislative change that would have disastrous consequences.
