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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.
The UK government cannot ignore the huge issue of outsourced emissions any longer, writes Guy Shrubsole.
Society should place a firm limit on the amount of time we are prepared to tolerate anyone being unemployed, writes IPPR’s Graeme Cooke.
Liverpool MP Steve Rotheram expressed renewed anger today at Alan Davies’s semi-apology for his ill thought out remarks on Hillsborough, reports Shamik Das.
Gaffe-prone employment minister Chris Grayling added to his opus of incompetence today; Shamik Das chronicles all his balls ups down the years.
Quite how David Cameron thinks this can be the greenest government ever if he isn’t serious about household energy use is anyone’s guess, writes Charlie Samuda.
Making it easier for British multinationals to shift the profits they make into tax havens makes no sense whatsoever, explains ActionAid’s Chris Jordan.
IPPR chief economist Tony Dolphin presents his latest Left Foot Forward economic update, for April 2012.
This weekend’s nuclear negotiations between Iran and the six world powers seem to have yielded a broadly positive outcome, with Cathy Ashton to the fore.
Martin Dockrell, policy and campaigns manager for Action on Smoking and Health, explains how plain packaging on cigarettes will work.
The Department for Work and Pensions’ failure to scrutinise the consequences of disability benefit reform raises serious questions about their competence.
