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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.
Sam Bacon, of the Global Poverty Project, urges the chancellor to commit to the 0.7 per cent target of UK GNI to be spent on international development.
“We can’t take our foot off the gas for some time yet,” new energy secretary Ed Davey said at the weekend; Guy Shrubsole explains why this strategy is wrong.
Ahead of the budget, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves calls on the government to act fast on infrastructure investment to boost the economy.
Shamik Das reports on the student accused of sending racist tweets about Bolton footballer Fabrice Muamba, who collapsed in the match against Spurs on Satuday.
David Cameron’s ‘road privatisation’ proposals, which he unveiled today, are nonsensical, writes Sustrans’s Eleanor Besley.
Labour’s Murad Qureshi AM writes about London Mayor Boris Johnson’s abject failure to tackle air pollution in the capital.
Caroline Lucas MP, leader of the Green Party, writes about the ungent need for peers and MPs, at this late stage, to vote down the health and social care bill.
Jos Bell reports on the latest Parliamentary developments in the health and social care bill, with the legislation set to be passed into law.
Ahead of the budget, a new poll has revealed more Conservative voters oppose George Osborne’s plans to abolish the 50p top rate of tax than support it.
Tom Rouse looks back at the world’s news this week, including David Cameron’s visit to the US, plus the latest from the GOP race, Afghanistan and Syria.
