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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.
Fred Cowell writes about what should be the Commonwealth’s priority – ending the widespread anti-homosexuality laws, in operation in 40 commonwealth states.
As millions suffer the squeeze in Austerity Britain, the pay of FTSE 100 directors rose 50 per cent in the last year, a sickening new report reveals today.
Ben Mitchell argues that the Occupy protests can only succeed in London if they build a broader left and enter electoral politics.
Alex Hern covers the economic incompetency of the hard-right republican Tea Party’s presidential candidates and Herman Cain and Rick Perry’s crazy tax plans.
Hurrah! The end of the world has been averted! At least, that is what exhausted leaders dragging themselves out of the latest EU summit would want us to believe.
The Daily Mail’s rent-a-rev, Reverend Peter Mullen, who has attacked the St Paul’s Occupy London protests, called for gays to be tattooed with health warnings.
The usually genteel Irish presidential elections have been replaced by a fantastically dirty campaign that has seen much mud flung, writes Kevin Meagher.
Alex Hern writes about reports of strong pro-Assad demonstrations in Damascus, raising the possibility of a Syrian revolution devolving into a fully fledged civil war.
Adam Corner calls on Chris Huhne to stop applying to rhetoric of denial to people who disagree with specific policy proposals, arguing that that weakens the argument for anthropogenic climate change generally.
Ken Macintosh argues Scotland needs to get its infrastructure in order to send out a clear message it’s a good country to do business in.
