SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
Labour’s servitude to big tech will not end well
The government needs to raise its game when it comes to the tech giants who behave like the robber barons of old, argues NICK MATTHEWS
Billionaires: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla / Twitter CEO Elon Musk, arrive before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, January 20, 2025
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime
by Dr David Lowry, Institute for Resource and Security Studies
This strike is about pay and conditions, says CAMERON HARRISON – but it also shows workers have the power to disrupt the mightiest war machine on Earth
IN APRIL last year Marcus Bokkerink, then-chair of the Competition and Markets Authority, made a speech to mark its 10th anniversary.
He said: “I believe we should use milestone moments like this to look forward. So, with that in mind, on the CMA’s 10-year anniversary, the question I want to ask today is this: why is an independent, impartial CMA needed more than ever today and in the future?”
Clearly Chancellor Rachel Reeves disagrees with him. Apparently, the last thing we want is an impartial CMA. We need a CMA that promotes growth.
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From sexual innuendo about Blackpool Rock to Bob Dylan’s ‘God-almighty world,’ the corporation’s classist moral custodianship of pop music has created a roll call of censored artists anyone would feel honoured to join, writes NICK MATTHEWS
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