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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.
Only Labour continues to speak up for the taxpayer in banking, writes Cormac Hollingsworth.
After last week’s protests, the United Steelworkers file a formal complaint with London’s Olympic organisers against Rio Tinto’s role in the 2012 games.
François Hollande is still on course to become the next President of France, the second Socialist President since 1954, reports Sanchia Alasia.
Jack McConnell is to sue News International following revelations he and his two children could have had their phones hacked, reports Ed Jacobs.
Ed Miliband will today seek to portray the Tories as the party of the few, helping bankers, millionaires and Murdoch while doing nothing for everyone else.
Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
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With discussion of the voluntary sector’s role in welfare provision rife, one writer examines the work of the Salvation Army, and the difficulties it faces.
As the UK economy descends into a double-dip recession, new figures today show the US economy continuing to grow, albeit it at a slower rate, writes Shamik Das.
The Trayvon Martin case, and the investigations into racism in the Met, provide a much needed pretext for an open, honest discussion of a difficult subject.
