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SOLOMON HUGHES reveals how Chris Grayling did over small businesses under railway arches to benefit two big finance groups for short-term gain
In the third of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
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
CHRIS GRAYLING sold off over 5,000 railway arches worth around £1.4 billion to big investors, without caring that all the small businesses renting the premises face being squeezed by big rent rises from their new owners.
Grayling’s plan gave the Treasury a big injection of cash in the short term, but it only looks like a good deal in the longer term on fiddled figures.
What the deal shows is that the Tories are the party of big finance. But they are also the party of screw the small businesses and of grab the short-term cash. They are also the party of jobs-for-the-boys, as senior Tories worked for both firms who bought the arches.
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