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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.
Alex Hern reports on sleazebag lobbyists Bell Pottinger’s vandalism of Wikipedia, and Jimmy Wales’s personal appeal to them to stop it.
David Cameron’s cowering reliance on the City was exposed for the world to see this morning when he refused to sign the City up to a Financial Transaction Tax.
Kevin Meagher argues that increased spending on military-style equipment for the police is the last thing that the riots should lead to.
Alex Hern covers Rick Perry; he remains, ineluctably, Rick Perry.
Alex Hern highlights the spectacle that was Nadine Dorries ‘debating’ Malcolm Rifkind on Newsnight.
King of Labour’s Left Tony Benn today called for the Speaker of the House of Commons to be made President of Britain.
John Cryer MP points out that the crisis of lobbying is inextricably linked with a system that reinforces the power of an elite who went to the same schools, universities and drinking clubs
William Bain MP details the four basic realities about the British economy which the government is ignoring, to its peril – as well as all of ours.
Matthew Butcher argues, with Duncan Exley, that the Living Wage is the only way to reconcile the seemingly conflicting desires to end child poverty but also to decrease taxation.
Duncan Exley argues the lessons we should draw from the British Social Attitudes Survey are to push for a living wage and retain the 50p top rate of tax.
