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Claims of murky corporate manoeuvring at bankrupt courier City Link grew yesterday as its owners were accused of asset-stripping and cash grabs while thousands lose their jobs.
Business Secretary Vince Cable faced union calls for a “forensic investigation” into the collapse of the company, whose tax-dodging parent Better Capital (BC) stunned workers by announcing they were out of a job on Christmas Day.
Taxpayers are now likely to foot the redundancy bill for up to 2,700 former staff who face P45s by New Year’s Day.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
![BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE: Yanaocha mine in Cajamarca, Peru is the largest gold mine in South America operated by Newmont Corporation. It is considered the most profitable in the world [Pic: Elbuenminero/CC]](https://msd11.gn.apc.org/sites/default/files/styles/desktop/public/2025-09/extractive%20caoitakism%20webpic.jpg.webp?itok=lkf5b6oi)
JOE GILL appreciates a lucid demonstration of how capital today is an outgrowth of the colonial economy
When privatisation is already so deeply embedded in the NHS, we can’t just blindly argue for ‘more funding’ to solve its problems, explain ESTHER GILES, NICO CSERGO, BRIAN GIBBONS and RATHI GUHADASAN