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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.
There is no reason not to use a fairer electoral system other than the self-interest of big parties
The Tory minister wrote in 1998 that it was wrong to abolish hanging
Until the left gets over who people are and begins to engage with what they are saying it won’t deserve power
Instead the times call for intelligent and cohesive radicalism
The 2020 election will be fundamentally different to this one
It’s important to be brutally honest about Labour’s lacklustre campaign
With elections to the Welsh Assembly due next year, the red lights should be flashing for Labour
Miliband ditched New Labour but, beyond a basket of populist gimmicks he struggled to find anything with which to replace it
As the results come in, look out for these five Labour/Tory battleground seats. They could be early indicators of whether we’ll see Cameron or Miliband in Number 10
Miliband’s promise not to deal with the nationalists may have done more harm than good
