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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.
A recovery driven by part-time work and accompanied by falling living standards won’t feel like a recovery to most people, writes Duncan Weldon.
Katie Stanton reports on a Save the Children discussion on international development and overseas aid.
IPPR chief economist Tony Dolphin presents his latest Left Foot Forward economic update, for May 2012.
It emerged today the Tory-led government has plans to attack the benefits of blind people, reports Shamik Das.
The rise in punishment beatings in Derry serve as a warning that the road to peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland is a long and uncertain one.
The government has stripped A4e of its welfare-to-work contract following fraud and corruption allegations and a series of arrests, reports Shamik Das.
Multinationals are using overseas subsidiaries to avoid paying tax – George Osborne is relaxing the rules to make the shifty manouevre easier to perform.
A Welsh government minister has warned the “English exceptionalism” of the coalition in Westminster poses a substantial threat to the future of the union.
It is time for Nick Clegg to bridge the early intervention gap and act like a real family man, writes Family Action’s Anthony McCaul.
Left-wing snobbery does state schools no favours. Matthew Norman is disingenous in criticising state schools and sending his children to private school.
