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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 Hans Blix’s response to the IAEA’s report on Iran’s nuclear weapons programme, and asks why there’s been such silence from the UK government.
Alex Hern reviews the effect of the Agency Workers Directive, and finds that the right were so very wrong about what it would do to jobs.
Alex Hern covers Osborne’s attack on an FTT, and questions whether his arguments against them are even internally consistent.
IPPR’s Matthew Lockwood argues fuel poverty needs to be tackled with well targeted, well funded measures – unlike those currently in use.
Rory Weal writes about the need for a job creation programme, the reinstatement of the Education Maintenance Allowance and the protection of youth services.
Recent events should convince us further – as if any more convincing were required – that it is in suburbia the next election will be won or lost, writes Rupa Huq.
Alex Hern covers the latest smear-job by the Telegraph against peaceful protest; the message is clear: If you aren’t in bed by midnight, you can’t protest.
Trevor Cheeseman shows how the history of a Labour NHS was, far from the Conservative rhetoric, one of improving outcomes across the board.
Alex Hern runs over the “best” of Simon Heffer’s columns, and details how to write one yourself, so you don’t have to read his.
The solicitor of Milly Dowler’s family, Mark Lewis, has accused Rupert Murdoch’s News International of behaving “like the former Soviet Union”, reports Shamik Das.
