Corbyn’s intervention exposes a corrupted system, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Legalised sleaze: please keep it subtle
Supposedly, the revolving door between working for the government and working on the government for private business interests is governed by a set of rules: you really wouldn't know it, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
In the second of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
Paul Holden’s The Fraud reveals how a network of donors, MPs and opaque organisations quietly organised to destroy Corbyn’s leadership and manufacture a new centre of power inside Labour, writes JOHN ELLISON
Systems of power enable, excuse and normalise abuse, while survivors are ignored and women’s exploitation is repackaged as commerce and choice, warns CHARLIE WEINBERG
By casting himself as Supreme Pontiff, Donald Trump summoned the ghosts of the church’s most depraved eras, says STEPHEN ARNELL
As assaults on transport staff rise and the Scottish Parliament heads for dissolution, promised legislation to protect rail workers has yet to materialise, says ANN HENDERSON
THE latest business appointment data shows lobbying and consultancy businesses aiming to influence the government are also busy appointing former top civil servants from related departments.
The “business appointment rules” manage the revolving door for director and deputy director-level civil servants leaving their top government jobs for places in industry.
The rules are supposed to stop private companies from getting too much influence on the government by poaching these top insiders. Many corporations want to either win government contracts or change government regulations — and they have money to spend to help them do it.
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