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The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Ex-Tory minister crosses the bridge to lobby for shady Santander bank
George Bridges’ career highlights why the Tories will never challenge the City, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
As the RMT Health and Safety Conference takes place, the union is calling for urgent action on crisis of work-related stress, understaffing and the growing threat of workplace assaults. RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY explains
Current polling shows Scottish Labour faces a stark choice: break decisively with Westminster or continue its slide into irrelevance, warns VINCE MILLS
As discussions continue between the US and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment programme, the suppression of internal dissent by the theocratic dictatorship grows. STEVE BISHOP reports.
Last weekend’s inaugural conference mixed warmth, unity and ambition with the unmistakable echo of old arguments. MATT KERR wonders whether the fledgling party’s difficulties can be overcome
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
THERESA MAY has made some noises about the hurt caused by the banks, but her government is still too close to the City to do anything about it.
They are so close to the banks that one of May’s ministers — one of the ministers in charge of Brexit, no less — came into government as a servant of a Spanish banker. He has left government to serve the same banker, almost without comment.
In her “social justice” speech at the recent Tory conference, May agonised about how “the effects of the financial crisis — nearly a decade of low growth, stagnating wages and pay restraint — linger.”
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Why is the Labour government so addicted to giving government jobs to Tories when it spent so long trying to oust them? In the hope the favour is returned the next time the Tories return to power, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Despite using female spokespeople for its campaigns against clinic buffer zones, ADF UK’s board consists entirely of men, with 80 per cent living outside Britain and most funding from its US parent, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES