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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 Bank of England is blind to the financialisation of commodities, explains Cormac Hollingsworth.
Vote in Left Foot Forward’s Budget 2012 survey. It closes at 12:00pm on Friday, March 23rd, with the results being sent out later that day in our weekly email.
A leaked internal A4e document has revealed evidence of “systemic fraud” at the company, BBC Newsnight’s Paul Mason revealed tonight.
Will Straw reports on the IFS’s budget analysis, which shows the richest 10% have done better under this government than the poorest 40 per cent.
Lord Whitty, chair of Housing Voice, calls on politicians of all parties to make the housing recovery a priority.
Left Foot Forward’s devolution correspondent Ed Jacobs rounds up the Budget 2012 reaction from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Katie Schmuecker, associate director of IPPR North, looks at the impact of George Osborne’s budget on the north of England.
Kevin Meagher wonders what will happen the next time George Osborne meets the “morally repugnant” tax dodgers James Caan, Lord Ashcroft and Sir Philip Green.
On budget day, Richard Darlington, head of news at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), presents a detailed breakdown of the benefits bill.
John Stewart, chair of AirportWatch, writes about the government’s recent remarks on airport expansion and aviation, following today’s budget.
