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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 opposition, press and economists turned on the government today for the UK’s descent into a double-dip recession for the first time since the mid-seventies.
The OBR has got its growth projection wrong again. Last month they predicted growth this quarter of 0.3 per cent. Today’s figures show they are out by 0.5 percentage points.
SNP leader Alex Salmond and the Liberal Democrats have been implemented in the Frederic Michel/James Murdoch Leveson Inquiry emails.
Would you believe it? The Sun is the only UK national newspaper not to lead on James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt and the Leveson Inquiry today.
Following last month’s budget, the government’s reputation for economic competence has taken has taken another hit, writes IPPR Chief Economist Tony Dolphin.
The battle for the centre-ground will decide the next election; Left Foot Forward previews the 2012 Progress Annual Conference.
Amanda Ramsay reports on the debate on an elected Mayor for Newcastle, ahead of the referendum on May 3rd.
Welsh health minister Lesley Griffiths described regional pay as “Tory code for cutting the pay of NHS workers in Wales”, reports Ed Jacobs.
James Murdoch today denied culture secretary Jeremy Hunt was a “cheerleader” for News Corp – yet the evidence says otherwise, reports Shamik Das.
Gary Dunion, chair of Common People, explains how Londoners can sack Boris Johnson, the Tory Mayor of the one per cent.
