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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.
Replacing Regional Development Agencies with a more-aspirational Regional Growth Fund has not produced any evidential improvements for regional economies.
The Queen’s Speech did not deliver on energy bills, foreign aid or co-operative values.
Certain sections of the press continue to run inflammatory stories on the UK’s apparent failure to deport foreign nationals convicted of criminal offences.
Even The Sun, the ultimate scrounger bashers, thinks Steve Hilton’s latest idea is “daft”, writes Richard Darlington, head of news at the IPPR.
Zain Sardar of the Young Greens looks at the scandal of fat cat university Vice Chancellors.
This week in Northern Ireland is Community Relations Week – with a warning issued that the province continues to have a serious problem with sectarianism.
Tory cuts are having a detrimental effect on the frontline staff they promised to protect, according to a report from the British Association of Social Workers.
MSPs today expressed “grave concerns” over the likely impact on Scotland’s most vulnerable people as a result of Westminster’s £2.5 billion cut in benefits.
A Robin Hood Tax would be a tiny tax on the vast wealth of our financial sector; by taxing the few, we could do so much more for the many, writes Chris Keates.
Shadow Scotland Office minister William Bain MP writes about the insanity of the European right’s mad dash for austerity.
