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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.
While the US economy shows encouraging signs of recovery, we in the UK are paying for chancellor George Osbourne’s own misguided version of Voodoo Economics.
David Cameron and George Osborne still don’t get the need for a robust and interventionist manufacturing strategy, writes Unite’s Tony Burke.
Dr Matthew Goodwin writes about his report which revealed UKIP supporters are more extreme and closer to the BNP than Nigel Farage would have us believe.
At the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference party members voted overwhelmingly against Ken Clarke and Lord McNally’s plans to cut legal aid by £350 million.
Chuka Umunna’s speech today on a ‘One Nation’ active industrial policy – in which he praised Michael Hesletine – exposes ideological divisions in the coalition.
Jos Bell reports on the debates on the health and social care bill at the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference as the battle to save the NHS goes on.
The focus of the world has been on a viral video, ‘Kony 2012’, which exposes the actions of Joseph Kony, leader of the Lords Resistance Army in central Africa.
The absence in Red Toryism and Blue Labour thinking around personal liberty, social mobility & environmental awareness can be filled by a Green Democrat vision.
The UK once exploited the Chinese, but is it now a supplicant to their government?
Ed Jacobs rounds up the week’s news from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, plus the week’s local council by-election results.
