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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.
The Liberal Democrats have not always been so enthusiastic about free school meals.
In Rwanda, 24 of the 80 seats in the Chamber of Deputies are reserved for women. The quota system is just a push, the rest comes naturally. Perhaps the UK would find the same?
Look Left, our round up of the week’s politics, will be going out shortly.
Salman Shaheen, a member of Left Unity’s national co-ordinating group, replies to Left Foot Forward editor James Bloodworth, who wrote a piece for the Guardian yesterday in which he argued that the left should stick with the Labour Party.
Darren Johnson AM, Green Party Member of the London Assembly, reports from last week’s Green Party conference in Brighton.
Yet again inflation has outpaced wages as figures realeased today by the Office for National Statistics show the Consumer Price Index at 2.7 per cent.
Community organising can be a source of energy for Labour as we approach 2015.
Dr Roz Pidcock of the Carbon Brief has done an exellent job of fisking the Mail on Sunday’s latest piece of climate change denial.
Look Left, our round up of the week’s politics, will be going out shortly.
Why is the government launching yet another crackdown on benefit fraud when it accounts for just a fraction of the welfare budget?
