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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.
Opposition to the Business Secretary’s plans is misguided – the interests of business and the interests of executives are not always the same thing.
The six million American voters that live abroad proved critical to Obama’s victory in 2008. This year, Democrat activists are looking to repeat the trick.
Along with others, Cancer Research UK is trying to make sure the tobacco industry’s fears are realised with their “The Answer Is Plain” campaign.
The fast-approaching referendums on directly elected mayors in 10 major UK cities present an opportunity to invigorate local democracy and economic development.
“The results are in: Keynesians have been completely right, Austerians utterly wrong – at vast human cost” – so wrote Nobel laureate Paul Krugman today.
As the economy goes back into recession, David Cameron has downgraded an appearance at the Clean Energy Ministerial Conference from a keynote to ‘remarks’.
Pressure is mounting on Alex Salmond to come clean over his relationship with Rupert Murdoch, who last night called the first minister “an amusing guy”.
Kevin Gulliver reports on the housing crisis in the UK, and its role in yesterday’s negative growth figures, dragged down by the construction contraction.
If Ken Livingstone loses the mayoral election, the result will obscure likely gains in the London Assembly and the true scale of Labour support in the capital.
The double dip recession is a result of George Osborne’s ideological agenda and rejection of stimulus economics, writes Cormac Hollingsworth.
