ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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Snouts in the trough
Profiteering while being an elected MP is a practice as old as the hills, particularly for the Tories, writes STEVEN WALKER
MASTER PROFITEER: Lloyd George in 1922
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
THE recent spectacular resignation of corrupt MP Owen Paterson is only the latest in a series of scandals involving MPs shoving their snouts in the greedy trough.
The government refuses to release minutes of a phone call last spring between Paterson and the health minister Lord Bethell, which took place just days before Randox, one of the companies he worked for, got a £133 million deal to supply and analyse Covid test kits.
In 1994 news broke of a corrupt financial transaction involving the owner of Harrods Department store in London and two Tory MPs. Harrods boss Mohammad al-Fayed confirmed he paid parliamentary lobbyist Ian Greer to arrange for then MPs Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith to table parliamentary questions on his behalf at £2,000 a time.
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