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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.
According to comments by Tory MP Dominic Raab, Vince Cable – and by extension David Davis – are giving in to “dangerous socialist populism”.
The shortcomings of such light-touch reforms are plain, writes Rob Edwards.
A jump in the number of housing benefit claimants shows the government is prioritising being ‘tough’ about benefits ahead of being correct about them.
Touts are pricing people out of live entertainment, writes James Bloodworth.
A new report by the Children’s Society highlights the damage being done to children by debt.
Nearly 80 per cent of the public think Serco, the scandal-hit outsourcing company, should not be allowed to bid for public service contracts.
Alex Salmond’s plans for a currency union should Scotland vote for independence have suffered another setback.
Labour can again be the party of transformative constitutional reform, writes Dan Sharp.
Carl Packman reviews Solving Britain’s Personal Debt Crisis, by Damon Gibbons.
The Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine group was rife with antisemitism, writes Mark Gardner.
