The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL
Interest rate hike risks financial crisis
The Bank of England has been swinging its interest rate bludgeon for the last year, and the wreckage is starting to pile up, warns JAMES MEADWAY
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NEIRLAY ANDRADE, a member of the Communist Party of Venezuela’s political committee, outlines her party’s position on the crisis facing the country
A look at Taylor Wimpey’s accounts shows why Labour’s market-led housing strategy won’t deliver more, cheaper homes, as promised, says SOLOMON HUGHES
DAVID HORSLEY remembers the remarkable life and death of US black revolutionary George Jackson, whose politically passionate prison letters were published as Soledad Brother
Cuban trade union federation CTC leader OSNAY MIGUEL COLINA speaks to Ben Chacko about life and work under a crippling US siege
A part of the British empire’s network of slavery, today the Caribbean island of Nevis faces a new form of exploitation in the form of crypto-colonialism, CLAUDIA WEBBE writes
Challenges from the unscrupulous misuse of AI to steal actors’ voice and physical likenesses is being met with a firm union response, writes LYNDA ROOKE
THE Bank of England’s raising of interest rates this week was a poor decision that will do little to nothing to restrain price rises, adds to the financial burdens on households and small businesses and increases the joint risks of recession and financial crisis.
But it’s not all bad news: new figures from Unite the Union show that the four largest banks’ profits are up £7bn since the start of the pandemic, as rising Bank of England interest rates have been turned into higher borrowing costs for households and businesses — while, naturally, savings rates have barely moved.
Sarcasm aside, the best that can be said for the rates rise, with two dissenting members of the rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee voting to keep rates the same, is that the bank is less likely to repeat this madness in future.
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