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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 covers the extraordinary comments of Dr Heather McGregor, who thinks workers are basically children, and that if you don’t live in Cuba, you shouldn’t have a say in how your company is run.
Kevin Gulliver details the flawed concept and execution behind the government’s new housing strategy, but welcomes the desire for stimulus which lies behind it.
Alex Hern reports on the remarkable degree to which every tabloid manages to avoid reporting on its own implication in the phone hacking scandal.
One of Scotland’s major teaching unions has warned that virtually every school north of the border now faces closure on the November 30th, reports Ed Jacobs.
Unless the trend towards greater inequality is halted, we may end up back at the levels of disparity “evident in Victorian England”, the High Pay Commission says.
The latest news from Egypt, where bloggers are being arrested and protesters are being shot with American-made teargas, in a haunting repeat of the Spring.
The Resolution Foundation today published a new paper by Professor Lane Kenworthy of the University of Arizona; James Plunkett reports.
John Stewart of AirportWatch explains why even other Tories, from Gideon Osborne down, are privately briefing against Boris Island: it’s a ridiculous idea.
Labour MP Lisa Nandy is correct to point out that Nick Clegg has reneged on his promise to end child detention, writes End Child Detention Now’s Simon Parker.
Seven in ten voters would take some form of action if their pension contributions were to increase while promising lower returns, writes Neil Foster.
