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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.
Ben Fox reports from Brussels with the latest on the eurozone crisis, looking at whether Herman Van Rompuy will save David Cameron from a referendum.
Jonny Mulligan makes the case for positive lobbying, rather than the sad sleaze of Bell Pottinger and slimeball Peter Bingle.
Ed Jacobs reports on the latest developments from Ireland over the budget brought on by the eurozone crisis.
Declan Gaffney looks at the British Social Attitudes Survey 2011 and asks whether the child poverty agenda now belongs to Iain Duncan Smith’s Conservatives.
Sally Hunt argues that the experience of the USA in its experiment with for-profit universities shows the danger of importing that model to the UK
The family of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane are set to launch legal proceedings against David Cameron’s refusal to establish a full independent judicial inquiry.
The jobs market risks heading back to levels of unemployment unseen since the last time the Conservatives were in government, writes Richard Exell.
Alex Hern reports on Ed Balls’s active background role in today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, and his canny prepared graph.
Anne Summers reports on the results of the 28th British Social Attitudes Survey.
Alex Hern explains why Sir Martin Sorrell’s feint over corporation tax is empty: he has no jobs to offer us, and wouldn’t pay any tax even if he did move back.
