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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.
The row between Britain and Ireland over David Cameron’s refusal to establish a judicial inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane has grown.
Alex Hern covers Sepp Blatter’s apology on BBC News for his racism comments, as well as the astonishing fact he was repeating them even yesterday evening.
The UK’s student visa system is turning prospective entrepreneurs away from the UK, according to a leading Indian newspaper, reports Will Straw from India.
Tom Brake MP, chair of the Lib Dem Parliamentary Policy Committee on Home Affairs, explains the progress made by the coalition govt. in ending child detention.
Tony Burke, Assistant General Secretary of Unite, details the victory of the Newspaper Guild Of New York in fighting for the right to free expression online.
The Tories’ and Lib Dems’ warm words on co-operatives are hollow; the resurrection of Northern Rock’s failed ownership model underlines that point.
Charlie Samuda runs through the problems with the coalition’s cutting of the “warm front” program, which helped the poorest in society heat their homes.
Alex Hern shows quite how long scrapping waiting lists has been a Tory policy, and quite how quickly they scrapped it.
Alex Hern questions why the Treasury secretaries are denying claims on borrowing that their own department put out.
Richard Dyer argues that the changes our transport system needs are far more systematic than merely reducing fuel duty.
