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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 shows quite how expensive Osborne’s skiing holiday was.
Ed Jacobs gives the round-up of how the devolved nations reacted to Osborne’s autumn statement
The government is salpping a tax on public sector workers to clwar up the bankers mess. If ministers negotiate in good faith, a deal can still be done says Brendan Barber
The economy has done even worse than Osborne’s critics on the left feared – and now we all have to pay the price.
Alex Hern runs through four myths about the public sector strikes, and shows why they’re all false.
If the government misses its targets for growth and spending, it will be forced to cut further – making the bad times worse. Oh Goodee!
Richard Exell follows the money on the chancellor’s autumn statement, and finds that it’s the poor who are paying the price.
Alex Hern shows that the proposed Northern Line extension has always been condemned as “a cut-price stand-alone extension, built for one purpose only – private profit.”
Will Straw examines the regressive nature of the chancellor’s autumn statement
In his Autumn statement, George Osborne confirmed that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) now projects that the government will borrow more than Alistair Darling was projected to at the time of the last election. This puts the OBR intest
