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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

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23 December, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

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Why Grant Shapps doesn’t know what he’s talking about on energy prices

James Bloodworth
12 November, 2013

Why energy bills are really sky high and what Grant Shapps and the Tories won’t do about it.

Selling-off the loan book would be the government’s most outrageous attack on students yet, so why aren’t we more concerned?

James Elliott
12 November, 2013

It shouldn’t be left up to ordinary students to organise against the privatisation of the student loan book. We both need and deserve better from NUS.

The coalition lacks any plan to get Britain manufacturing again

Tony Burke
12 November, 2013

Unite has set out ten recommendations for rebalancing the economy and developing an effective manufacturing strategy.

Obama is charting a new course in the Middle East. Can he succeed?

Larry Smith
12 November, 2013

When it comes to its new goals for the Middle East, is the US still overestimating what it can achieve?

Free schools performing WORSE, according to Ofsted

James Bloodworth
12 November, 2013

Free schools are underperforming compared to all schools inspected by Ofsted.

For young black people to fulfil their potential, we cannot focus on racial inequality alone

Chuka Umunna
11 November, 2013

We must address issues of class and social mobility that are holding people – of all colours and identities – back, writes Chuka Ummuna.

The decision to end naval ship building in Portsmouth was political

Ed Jacobs
11 November, 2013

There was more than a whiff of politics last week as BAE systems took the decision to end ship building in Portsmouth in favour of the Clyde.

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11 November, 2013

Look Left, our daily political round up, will be going out shortly.

Hong Kong: no free market paradise

James Bloodworth
11 November, 2013

Hong Kong is often cited by the right as an example of the success of free markets. Look beneath the surface, however, and things aren’t quite so rosy.

Why a bad deal on Iran is a nightmare scenario

Toby Greene
11 November, 2013

Israel’s worst fear is the P5+1 signing a deal that leaves Iran closer than it can live with to a nuclear bomb.

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