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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.
Matt Dykes writes about the information revealed in the transport select committee’s report on the commissioning process for the Thameslink trains.
Sports minister Hugh Robertson today denied any responsibility for the school sport cuts – yet claimed credit for the school games, reports Shamik Das.
IPPR North report on the growing economic split between the north and south of England; while the former may be recovering, the latter is stagnating – or worse.
Hilton Dawson, chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers, responds to David Cameron’s speech today on ‘troubleshooting’ problem families.
Ed Jacobs writes about the unity between all the Scottish opposition parties against the SNP’s anti-sectarianism bill, which they say is badly drafted.
Alex Hern covers the incredible cheek of the News of the World journalist Jules Stenson who accused Nick Davies of being a shoddy journalist.
With the House rising next week for Christmas, and following his underwhelming performance at PMQs yesterday, Ed Miliband has much to think about as heads home.
Tim Nichols argues that Ruth Porter’s attack on child poverty targets misses the big picture in favour of a trojan horse attack on the European Union.
SNP MEP Ian Hudghton writes about the damage David Cameron’s abdication of responsibility in the European Union is having on Scottish fisheries.
Today’s unemployment figures provide a grim reckoning of the mounting human, social, and long-term economic cost of thE government’s failures on the economy.
