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‘Osborne’s recovery is built on sand’
Shadow chancellor JOHN MCDONNELL writes exclusively for the Star as Britain braces itself for another year of austerity
DR DAVID GORDON SCOTT tells the story of the North Sands Massacre, Sunderland, as part of the ongoing work of remembrance of those killed by soldiers during the 1825 Seafarers Strike and the bicentennial commemorations on Sunday August 3
MATT KERR charts his bike-riding odyssey in aid of the Royal Marsden charity and CWU Humanitarian Aid
JOHN CALLOW tells of the rise, fall and rise again of a young martyr to the early French republic, Joseph Bara, whose short life was elevated by Robespierre and, later, others for its emotional and ideological appeal
April 9 1928 – July 26 2025
OLIVER SNELLING, a south London stonecarver and yeoman stonemason, relates how he is helping bring about a new festival next month
GEORGE OSBORNE will today unveil another package of cuts. Unless he changes direction from everything he’s done before, they will fall heavily on women, who have so far borne 81 per cent of spending cuts. They will fall on people with disabilities. Disgracefully, 640,000 people face losses of up to £150 a week as a result of changes to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
Labour will oppose these Tory cuts. We will oppose them today, and we will oppose them every step of the way in Parliament. We will not allow the failures of Osborne’s economic programme to be carried by those least able to bear them.
He has failed every test he set himself. The fiscal deficit is not closed. Government debt has skyrocketed under his watch. Business investment slumped at the end of last year, whilst government investment is scheduled to dwindle over the course of the Parliament.
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