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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 bad smell lingering around Scottish first minister Alex Salmond’s relationship with Rupert Murdoch gets worse and worse, reports Ed Jacobs.
A year on from the biggest call of his Presidency, to kill Osama bin Laden, Barack Obama has signed a new pact with Karzai on a surprise visit to Afghanistan.
Shell scrapping its North Sea wind farm plans suggests George Osborne’s stimulus policies for the oil and gas industries are deterring investment in renewables.
Labour today warned there will be further instances of London councils seeking to export families north as the government’s welfare reforms begin to bite.
A new poll has revealed Welsh Labour is “on course to make sweeping gains” in Thursday’s local elections.
In the wake of the unfolding A4e scandal, a new survey reveals bafflingly low client referral rates among welfare-to-work subcontractors. What’s going on?
MPs today said Rupert Murdoch “is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company”, accusing him of “wilful blindness”.
Amanda Ramsay reports on campaign for an elected mayor in Coventry ahead of the referendum this Thursday.
As polling day approaches, London Mayor Boris Johnson is coming under increasing pressure to explain the full extent of his relationship with the Murdoch empire.
Annie Powell of Fair Pensions writes about the “Your say on high pay” campaign against excessive executive pay.
