Cuts in the UK’s science budget will cause the closure of key scientific programmes and facilities writes Robert Stevens

The Morning Star looks at the impact on the poor of Gordon Brown’s last budget as Chancellor.

Jim Mortimer analyses the growth and consequences of inequality.

We have been too slow to demand answers about the amount of money being poured into the military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, say Ian Gibson and William Mathew.

John McDonnell on New Labour’s failure to adequately deal with child poverty, a failure the new budget will do little to address.

As it emerges that the cost of Britain’s wars oversees will nearly double this year to £3.2 billion, the Morning Star asks why this money should not be spent on improving lives, instead of destroying them.