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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 horror of the welfare reform bill continues to loom large, with the stress and fear engendered by the government’s inhumane reforms taking an ever more worrying toll.
Alex Hern asks why the public sector is fine for this government – so long as it’s the Chinese public sector
Val Shawcross attacks Boris Johnson over his astonishingly heartless comments about the job prospects for young people.
Alex Hern presents further questions, and an answer, for Alex Salmond on Scottish independence.
Don Flynn of the migrants’ rights network responds to Chris Grayling’s appalling dog-whistle announcement over welfare cheating migrants.
Alex Hern rebuts Grayling’s horrible misuse of statistics in the Telegraph, and asks if this represents the government’s real attitude to evidence based policy
In advance of the DWP releasing heavily-spun figures, Steve Griffiths counters claims in the press that suggest that disability welfare is often wrongly claimed.
Ann Milnes Roberts attempts to explain the lives behind the DLA cuts.
With George’s Marvellous Deficit Calculator you can predict the deficit in 2012/3 from growth in 2012
Alex Hern presents the five worst things still in the coalition government’s anti-NHS health and social care bill.
