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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 takes to task the Tories’ repeated refrain, most recently voiced by Claire Perry MP, that no one else is borrowing their way out of a borrowing crisis.
This week the coalition government has new cause to regret strapping itself to a pledge of reducing net migration to the “tens of thousands” per year by 2015.
Leo Barasi examines whether the arguments that Labour can’t politically support deficit spending for growth hold up against the polling data.
IPPR’s senior economist Tony Dolphin looks at the key economic indicators and reviews the state of the economy in his latest economic update for Left Foot Forward.
Alex Hern reveals that the Telegraph’s story on Free Schools and section 28 is ten years out of date – this isn’t Gove’s nasty, it’s Blair’s.
Ed Jacobs writes about the Scottish infrastructure investment plan, announced mere days after the Conservative one.
Unite has launched a new strategy to help save UK manufacturing, writes Assistant General Secretary Tony Burke.
Ben Mitchell writes about how the role of the police in sparking, and then failing to deal with, the England riots is becoming clearer.
Daniel Hannan and that ‘there are no public sector cuts’ brigade are being perverse. By their framing, we could end up much poorer & they could declare victory.
In the wake of the autumn statement, and in the midst of the pensions dispute and eurozone crisis, focus has shifted to Labour’s policies on the economy.
