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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 lesson from Labour’s 1992 election defeat is that unless the party wins the economic argument it cannot deliver social justice, writes Meg Hillier MP.
Sustrans Cymru’s Lee Waters writes about the Welsh government’s plans to place a legal duty on councils to provide a network of routes for ‘active travel’.
Left Foot Forward pays tribute to Vidal Sassoon, stylist to the stars, who died aged 84 in Los Angeles yesterday.
Lord Boateng was in Ghana for World Immunisation Week; read an account of his visit.
Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson has savaged her coalition partners, saying the Liberal Democrats have “ceased to function as a viable party in Scotland”.
The Libel Reform campaign has said it is “delighted” with the government’s plans to introduce a Defamation Bill, outlined in the Queen’s Speech today.
Plans to make it easier to sack workers at will are not only wrong in principle but won’t actually reduce unemployment and kickstart the economy.
The government once again failed to introduce legislation committing the UK to spending 0.7 per cent of GNI on international development in the Queen’s Speech today.
CentreForum’s Tom Frostick outlines nine measures a “big L” liberal government would enact in a Queen’s Speech.
An ‘Economic Freedom Bill’ in the Queen’s Speech could address these wider economic imbalances, writes Mike Morgan-Giles.
