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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 failure to invest in our care services constitutes death by a thousand cuts to a vital public service and in the quality of care as private care homes are forced to cut their overheads and provide a punitive ‘no-frills’ budget.
Given how political policing is, from questions of resource allocation to outsourcing, if any independent PCCs are elected to make such political decisions, we should know their political leanings.
It is all but certain that the frontrunner Mitt Romney will be the eventual nominee, but the party’s voters simply haven’t warmed to him: Too elitist for working-class voters, too moderate for conservatives, too Mormon for evangelical protestants.
George Osborne reignited his war on working people last night by urging company bosses to lobby the government – ie. him – to make it easier to sack staff.
Business secretary Vince Cable has accused the government of lacking “a compelling vision of where the country is heading beyond sorting out the fiscal mess”.
Until now, the extent of the potential damage to vital public health work of the health and social care bill has not received the attention it deserves.
With referendums in ten of the biggest cities outside London in May, residents in Manchester will decide if they wish to have an elected mayor.
There are warnings today that 424,000 adults and 470,000 children are at risk of falling into poverty as a result of the government’s tax credit changes.
Last year, the UK donated £4.2bn to poor countries. Now Osborne is considering changes that will allow multinationals to avoid paying £4bn to poor countries.
We need to be courageous enough to adapt our own practices to individual needs; we need to talk about integration, writes Jill Rutter.
