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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 covers the DfT’s statement ending the option for a opt-out from new scanners which reveal the naked body of the person being scanned
The current impasse over the passage of a budget in Wales, triggered by last week’s vote, was in hindsight always likely, writes Ed Jacobs.
Alex Hern covers the claim by 15 leading economists in the FT that the Home Office plans to send home poor migrants will cut 0.29% from growth over five years.
Ed Jacobs covers the SNPs calls for Osborne to move away from strict austerity, both for Scotland and nationwide.
Government assurances that changes to public sector pensions will protect low-paid public sector workers earning less than £15,000 a year are wrong.
The past week brought a reminder of just how unpalatable some elements of David Cameron’s Conservative party still are; Shamik Das rounds up the week’s news.
BICOM’s Alan Johnson argues the lesson of the FBU Dundee to Nablus Project is that derecognition is not the most effective way to help Palestinians.
Mike Morgan-Giles argues that British drugs policy is a serious failure of evidence-based policymaking, and that we can learn many lessons from overseas.
Alex Hern reveals star Tory Harriet Baldwin’s “questions” about whether poor parents ought to be punished for having too many children.
Religious hate crimes in Scotland have surged 10 per cent in the last year, according to research released today by the Scottish government, reports Kevin Meagher.
