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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.
Alex Hern celebrates a minor victory over workfare, but warns that there is more to fight for in the future.
Matt Cavanagh runs through the government’s plans to throw out workers who don’t earn enough fast enough – but it won’t work the way they want it to.
Ed Jacobs details the full extent of the welfare cuts on Wales. They’re nasty.
Airport Watch presents the actual evidence around the expansion of airport capacity. It doesn’t bode well for airports.
Why on earth would the Sun focus on benefit fraud rather than tax avoidance, asks Alex Hern. Could it be because of the actions of their proprietor, one R. Murdoch Esq?
Cormac Hollingsworth replies to Open Europe, and demonstrates that RBS and Lloyds really are being bailed out.
For four months, the protestors at St Paul’s have provoked the sort of intelligent debate so lacking in mainstream politics today, write Friends of the Earth.
Cormac Hollingsworth explains how the warning signs for Barclays’s tax-dodging were there back in 2008.
Marine Le Pen’s Front National have claimed that young people are joining the fascists ‘in their droves’.
Even GPs who are implementing the NHS reforms oppose them – it’s time to drop the legislation and strangle the disastrous health and social care bill.
