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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.
After all the months of tortuous debate, does the health and social care bill stack up in law, asks Jos Bell?
Exactly 30 days before Londoners go to the polls, Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson clashed today over tax during and after an on-air row on LBC radio.
Official figures show non-academies do just as well as academies, explains Henry Stewart, a founder member of the Local schools Network.
Londoners’ concerns about noise and air pollution from an already expanding Heathrow Airport have been lost amidst the renewed debate over a third runway.
The SNP has performed a u-turn over its consultation on an independence referendum after a row erupted over claims it was fundamentally flawed.
Would the UK and the planet be better off with a third runway at Heathrow and a Labour government with Ed Miliband still at Dept. of Energy and Climate Change?
Ed Jacobs reports on Mike Nesbitt’s election at the weekend as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP).
Gurjunder Dhaliwal reports on his Ed Miliband’s speech at Labour’s local elections campaign launch and the question and answer session that followed.
Ed Jacobs reports on the latest news from Scotland, with the cash for access, dinners for donors row ensnaring first minister Alex Salmond and the SNP.
Without big changes to lobbying transparency plans, lobbyists will continue to get paid by clients to meet, fund and influence our political leaders in secret.
