Profit, above everything
What runs through the minds of banking bosses who decide to squeeze £46 million out of their low-paid workers after announcing annual profits of £13.7 billion?
View ArticleNHS chief has no shame
NHS chief executive David Nicholson must be delighted to find that he has not only David Cameron fully behind him but also a gaggle of new Labour former health secretaries.
View ArticleChavez, we salute you
Hugo Chavez's death is a grievous blow to Venezuela's working people, but his importance extends beyond his native country's borders.
View ArticleTransparent class war
David Cameron is secure in his belief that Vince Cable will not react in any meaningful way to the Prime Minister's contemptuous dismissal of his proposal for government borrowing to spur growth.
View ArticleThe delirium of rail privateers
Bob Crow's description of the train operating companies taking legal action against the government as like lottery losers demanding the price of their ticket back sums up the madness of rail...
View ArticleNeoliberalism turns sour
Post-1991 capitalist euphoria over the demise of the Soviet Union encouraged the perception that the private enterprise system had triumphed historically over socialist alternatives, heralding a new...
View ArticleFox's dogma spells doom
David Cameron is perpetrating a cruel hoax in pretending that spending on the NHS has been ring-fenced by his government.
View ArticleReferendum solves nothing
David Cameron must be more gullible than he seems if he really believes that the world will "respect and revere this very, very clear result" to the Falkland Islands referendum.
View ArticleMiliband can't be complacent
It would be comforting to accept Ed Miliband's assessment at Prime Minister's Questions that David Cameron is "absolutely hopeless" and his government "falling apart," but caution dictates otherwise.
View ArticleDon't bury Leveson
It would require the most abject betrayal of political principle by Nick Clegg for Liberal Democrat MPs to troop into the division lobbies next Monday behind David Cameron's attempt to bury Leveson.
View ArticleWe must beat this cruel tax
Almost exactly a decade ago two million people responded to the call by the Stop the War Coalition to march against the illegal invasion of Iraq.
View ArticleLessons from Cyprus
Both George Osborne and William Hague are attempting to use the situation in Cyprus to justify their pig-headed commitment to the government's austerity agenda.
View ArticleDemocratise the media
The inter-party agreement on establishing a successor to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) merits two cheers, although further judgement must be suspended until the dust is settled.
View ArticleResistance or surrender
Members of the Civil Service union PCS will draw encouragement from the decision by Labour and Plaid Cymru members of the Welsh Assembly to refuse to cross their picket line tomorrow.
View ArticleOsborne's class war
The sight of Tory back-bench MPs clapping each other on the back when the Chancellor announced a 4p-a-pint tax reduction on beer reveals the depths of George Osborne's desperation.
View ArticleOpportunity for Turkey
Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan's announcement of an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of Kurdish peshmerga guerillas from Turkey provides the opportunity for a lasting peace that the Turkish...
View ArticleEU's mask stripped away
Fact one. Cyprus is the only country in Europe where the parliament has reflected the will of the people and rejected the vicious austerity assault orchestrated by EU-led financiers.
View ArticleUnshackle our unions
Media moguls' outrage at the prospect of statutory oversight of the press stands in stark contrast to their notable silence on the biggest undemocratic disgrace of our time - Thatcher's anti-trade...
View ArticleMigrants aren't the scroungers
UKIP leader Nigel Farage must be delirious at the spectacle of all three of major parliamentary parties' leaders dancing to his anti-immigration tune following the Eastleigh by-election.
View ArticleA historic train wreck
The 50th anniversary of the Beeching report throws up many lessons for the present and future.
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