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The Flinty heart of crony capitalism
Where are they now? asks SOLOMON HUGHES, of yesterday’s civil servants. With their noses in the corporate lobbying trough, of course
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The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP
NICK WRIGHT recalls one man’s journey from student revolutionary to Labour grandee – part of a wider world of working-class militants and communist activists whose lives shaped a generation and who should not be forgotten
Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era
EVERY week I ask “Where are they now?” The answer often differs in the details, but the big picture is the same: a picture of corporations buying slices of the government.
I consider this “where are they now” question by checking various registers for what happens to senior civil servants and former ministers as they exit the government and enter well-paid corporate jobs.
I assume at the conferences, flower-show receptions or corporate boxes at the races where top civil servants and ministers gather they ask the same question – and are heartened to hear about the corporate careers of their former colleagues.
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