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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 legacy of the financial crisis lives on, with banks still taking action to repair their balance sheets.
David Cameron has been in Downing Street for 36 months of falling real wages – more than any Prime Minister on record – according to new analysis of figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The government today launched a consultation on proposals for extra support with childcare costs for working families.
Renewable energy sources are more popular with the public than shale extraction (i.e. fracking), according to the latest polling from YouGov.
80 per cent of the public believe that there should always be a public sector bid when a public service in contracted out to judge if the service could be provided at better value, according to a new survey.
Slowly but surely, the persistent inequality in earnings between men and women is declining.
In May I wrote for Left Foot Forward about the chronic shortage of primary school places in parts of England and how Michael Gove’s free school programme is making the problem even more acute.
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics.
The two graphs show the rise in the number of people on zero hour contracts in the past eight years.
It has been another week when immigration stories have been in the news, with horse trading over the accuracy of the International Passenger Survey – used by the government to estimate net migration – and calls by the think tank Demos to restrict EU migration.
