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8 - Akshata Murty
Features / 11 April 2025
11 April 2025
Why is the Labour government so addicted to giving government jobs to Tories when it spent so long trying to oust them? In the hope the favour is returned the next time the Tories return to power, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
HELD IN CONTEMPT: Elbit has faced a long campaign of sabotag
Features / 4 April 2025
4 April 2025
Israel’s number one death dealer supplying the IDF in its murderous campaigns against the Palestinians is now actively wining and dining our military top brass, looking to flog its blood-soaked wares, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
DON’T BLAME CLAIMANTS: People take part in a protest outsi
Features / 28 March 2025
28 March 2025
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
BLUE’S WHO? Maurice Glasman (left), who founded Blue Labou
Features / 21 March 2025
21 March 2025
A new book shows the group’s close links to Labour Together, which hoodwinked the party membership into voting for Starmer on fake left promises. SOLOMON HUGHES attempts to get some answers about what ‘Blue Labour’ actually stands for
clinic
Features / 13 March 2025
13 March 2025
Despite using female spokespeople for its campaigns against clinic buffer zones, ADF UK’s board consists entirely of men, with 80 per cent living outside Britain and most funding from its US parent, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
PM+KS
Features / 7 March 2025
7 March 2025
You’ll never guess why a quick peace in Ukraine might be in the ambassador to Washington’s interests, writes SOLOMON HUGHES. Actually, of course you will – he stands to make a lot of money from his business links to Russia
a teacher and students in a classroom
Features / 20 February 2025
20 February 2025
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
cartoon
Features / 13 February 2025
13 February 2025
What’s behind the sudden wave of centrist ‘understanding’ about the real nature of Starmerism and its deep unpopularity? SOLOMON HUGHES reckons he knows the reasons for this apparent epiphany
07/06/24 of Taylor Swift performing on stage during her Eras
Features / 7 February 2025
7 February 2025
They’re the problem it’s them: SOLOMON HUGHES on the freeloading flunkies of the Labour Party hoovering up VIP tickets to musical and sporting events
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to
Features / 31 January 2025
31 January 2025
SOLOMON HUGHES examines how Labour has gone from blaming Tory deregulation for our economic woes to betting the nation's future on more of it
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to guests as he hosts
Features / 24 January 2025
24 January 2025
SOLOMON HUGHES reports on how a mega-wealthy hedge fund manager is dishing out cash to a ‘cringe’ Labour Party mediocrity with contempt for the voters
8 -- Elon v Starmer
Features / 17 January 2025
17 January 2025
By spreading race-based conspiracy theories, the billionaire tycoon turned right-wing provocateur has been seriously undermining the case against those who really did let victims of the grooming gangs down, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Starmer
Features / 2 January 2025
2 January 2025
Supposedly top journalists and commentators are suddenly reversing their earlier proclamations that our Labour PM is terrific, and are now saying he’s crap. SOLOMON HUGHES has a shrewd idea why
Alan Milburn speaks at the first national conference of the
Features / 20 December 2024
20 December 2024
Behind a facade of flimsy restrictions, the man who was Tony Blair’s privatisation champion is back in an advisory role, despite the fact he already works for firms that will profit from the selling off of the NHS, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
ANNOYING YET OMNIPRESENT: The podcasting left must find ways
Features / 6 December 2024
6 December 2024
Despite mainstream political podcasts drowning in centrist drivel, Labour Left Podcast offers an authentic grassroots perspective from decades of working-class struggle and resistance, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
CAUGHT OUT AGAIN:  The MP for Birmingham  Yardley can’t re
Features / 4 December 2024
4 December 2024
Despite promises to clean up her act after previous violations, Home Office minister waited five months to declare a luxury Chelsea flower show dinner with Lloyds Bank, as Labour’s love of freebies continues, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
SITTING PRETTY: (Left to right) Baroness Liddell, Claire Kob
Features / 29 November 2024
29 November 2024
Let’s take a closer look at the sprawling network of former ministers, political insiders and officials who make money from the firms responsible for soldiers’ squalid accommodation, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
BL
Features / 22 November 2024
22 November 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES reveals how one of the leading lobbyists for new technology set to hoover up billions in subsidies is already embroiled in a privatisation scandal that has been described as ‘disastrous for taxpayers’
10 - retail
Features / 8 November 2024
8 November 2024
Our homegrown literary scene seems stuck in a bit of a middle-class bubble with a key sector deeply unrepresented in the stories it tells: retail workers. Ireland and the US do much better, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
JL+JC
Features / 24 October 2024
24 October 2024
By hiring a former TikTok PR man as its new head of comms, Labour shows that corporate wheeling and dealing rather than principled politics will be the party’s priority, says SOLOMON HUGHES
RR
Features / 18 October 2024
18 October 2024
Why is Labour so excited about unproven and untested schemes to burn fossil fuels while radically reducing CO₂ emissions? Just follow BP, Drax and Hynet’s money, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds leaving Downi
Features / 11 October 2024
11 October 2024
Jonathan Reynolds’ appearance at a Starling Bank-sponsored event speaks volumes about Labour’s attitude to financial regulation, as the bank faces criticism over Covid loan fraud and money laundering failures, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Peter Sellers (left) as Dr Strangelove from Stanley Kubrick'
Features / 4 October 2024
4 October 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES looks at the sorry career of Brett McGurk
A Serco prison van arriving at the Central Criminal Court, b
Features / 27 September 2024
27 September 2024
Despite being roundly criticised by Labour shadow ministers when in opposition, the notorious outsourcing company appears to be back in the party fold and expecting further lucrative government contracts, SOLOMON HUGHES reports
Reeves
Features / 19 September 2024
19 September 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES reveals how one of the organisations shaping Labour’s investment plans was created by Tories and bankers, looking like a slightly green-flecked PFI vehicle instead of a body for proper investment
Thameslink train
Features / 13 September 2024
13 September 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES explains how rolling stock companies like Angel Trains will continue milking taxpayers for billions even after renationalisation, as Canadian pension funds and Texan oil billionaires cash in on our daily commutes
The Grenfell Memorial Wall in west London. The long-running
Features / 6 September 2024
6 September 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES exposes how executives behind lethal cladding have pocketed £302 million since the tragedy, as Labour frontbenchers continue to schmooze at luxury conferences funded and organised by implicated firms
KS +
Features / 30 August 2024
30 August 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES delves into a consultancy that claims it 'grew out of the labour movement'
walz+
Features / 23 August 2024
23 August 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES points at the Establishment as the inspirers of recent race riots and explains why Brits have a blinkered view of US politics
Features / 15 August 2024
15 August 2024
The sad thing about the fibs being told about ‘green’ hydrogen heating our homes is that there are indeed green, energy-conserving avenues we could explore, but these diversions only obscure them, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
8 - Rayner Starmer
Features / 2 August 2024
2 August 2024
As Angela Rayner pushes for a small but not totally insignificant number of council houses, SOLOMON HUGHES reveals how the Starmer-backed pro-developer Growth Group of MPs is likely planning to undermine this anyway
Starmer Housing
Features / 11 July 2024
11 July 2024
Taylor Wimpey’s eye-watering profits expose Labour’s ‘affordable homes’ plan as a joke. Cushy incentives for private sharks won’t build houses – just bigger exec bonuses, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
Protestors outside the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry at the
Features / 28 June 2024
28 June 2024
Evidence from the Post Office inquiry suggests Simon Blagden – formerly of Fujitsu and now in a government quango role – had greater involvement than previously realised in the notorious IT scandal that blamed subpostmasters for crimes they did not commit, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
8 - Royal International Air Tattoo
Features / 21 June 2024
21 June 2024
Foreign Office documents reveal ministers’ cosy relationship with weapons manufacturers, as they eagerly seek industry input on a confrontational strategy in the Indo-Pacific region, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak launches the Conservative Party G
Features / 13 June 2024
13 June 2024
Mainstream media pundits have recently discovered that our PM is terrible at politics, leaving a puzzle over how he reached the top. There’s really no mystery, writes SOLOMON HUGHES, but they wouldn’t like the answers
8keirstarmer
Features / 7 June 2024
7 June 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES explains the logic behind the ‘Ming vase strategy’ that’s firing up the thinking of Starmer and his gang of centrists
An NHS hospital ward
Features / 31 May 2024
31 May 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES shines a light on the US privateer that’s failing to provide safe care to vulnerable mental health patients in services that the NHS is paying millions for
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves speaking about the economy a
Features / 24 May 2024
24 May 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES examines questions raised about the Crown Commercial Service’s organisation of cross-departmental spending – and finds Labour sadly committed to ‘more of the same’
8 - bring back British rail
Features / 25 April 2024
25 April 2024
One thing about an incoming Labour government looks great: taking the railways into public ownership. But we won’t actually own the trains, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
8 - A&E
Features / 19 April 2024
19 April 2024
If you need a hospital now, you may not realise you are being robbed at the door as private firms cash in on A&E – with Labour waiting in the wings to bring in even more privatisation, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
People inspect the site where World Central Kitchen workers
Features / 12 April 2024
12 April 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES investigates the machinations of the Israeli state and to what extent the headline ‘aid drops’ by sea and air are diversion tactics from its grim starvation plan to drive Palestinians from Gaza
8 - Rees Mogg
Features / 29 March 2024
29 March 2024
As Tories grapple with potential electoral defeat, the faction that fancies its chances is the Trumpite culture warriors that worry even the rabid Thatcherite wing of the party. We can’t just point and laugh, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
8 - Gaza bombed out
Features / 22 March 2024
22 March 2024
The good news is that protests in Western capitals do actually jeopardise crucial arms supplies to Israel — but we need to remember exactly why our leaders continue to support their genocidal ‘strategic ally,’ writes SOLOMON HUGHES
shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves
Features / 15 March 2024
15 March 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES warns Reeves’s proposed national wealth fund hands City financiers control over billions in public money for big business — and we get... to pay!
Keir Starmer Rachel Reeves London Stock Exchange
Features / 8 March 2024
8 March 2024
Champagne receptions all about ‘growth’ under a Labour government that don’t include any plans for actual productive growth and a load of PFI-tainted spivs says it all, laments SOLOMON HUGHES
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Features / 23 February 2024
23 February 2024
Labour seems to think we’ll be impressed about this new defector — but even a cursory glance shows he’s a professional neoliberal lobbyist, not some 'traditional One Nation Tory' concerned with social justice, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Silver birch
Features / 9 February 2024
9 February 2024
The '80s media fawned over an anti-strike, anti-Scargill supposed 'leader' of dissident miners. Digging in declassified files, SOLOMON HUGHES discovers the police actually thought he lacked support — and brainpower
palestinians
Opinion / 2 February 2024
2 February 2024
Our political class is ready to hound out MPs who even mention Gaza in the same breath as other accepted genocides — yet China’s actions in Xinjiang are ‘a genocide’ despite no mass killings. That doesn’t add up, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Al Shifa
Features / 25 January 2024
25 January 2024
Even when Israel was caught using video 'evidence' it had faked itself, the Western press continued to repeat its murderous fabrications, giving a green light to its war on hospitals in Gaza, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Reeves Starmer
Features / 19 January 2024
19 January 2024
Even the right wing of the Labour Party had been critical of the invasion of the huge ‘management consultancies’ until recently – yet, as power beckons, its got over its reservations. Fancy that, says SOLOMON HUGHES
British Rail RMT
Features / 12 January 2024
12 January 2024
‘Our’ train companies — mostly partly owned from abroad — are trousering millions of taxpayer cash, as usual, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
The actions of the IDF must not be attributed to Jewish peop
Features / 5 January 2024
5 January 2024
Even as Israel ramps up its wilder accusations of anti-Jewish prejudice against those who oppose its war, we need to remember the struggle against racism of all kinds is vital to the left and anti-war movements, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
Keep the NHS public
Features / 22 December 2023
22 December 2023
Britain is back to its bad old ways, spending billions on health service stand-in staff — a vicious cycle that lines up the private providers to take over entirely as the NHS drains its funds on temps, explains SOLOMON HUGHES
Bob Vylan
Features / 14 December 2023
14 December 2023
SOLOMON HUGHES give a full-throated endorsement to punk-tinged, hardcore-splashed, grimey political output of Britain's foremost rap-rock duo
Housing
Features / 14 December 2023
14 December 2023
House building must be ‘attractive’ to people who need a house, not to the for-profit private developers, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Netanyahu
Features / 7 December 2023
7 December 2023
In times of war, the press should consider whether the most sensational stories are true before publishing. Of course, it doesn’t — and there’s no penalty when they turn out to be nonsense, laments SOLOMON HUGHES
IDF
Features / 30 November 2023
30 November 2023
From smaller bombs to more targeted murders, Britain and the US are offering what amounts to advice on the ‘correct manners to massacre’ for their Middle East ally, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
Corbyn
Features / 23 November 2023
23 November 2023
SOLOMON HUGHES looks back at 2018 and the Corbyn wreath-laying controversy — a complete sham that also smeared the West’s now-preferred negotiating partner, the PLO
Effigies of dead children are laid out in Trafalgar Square during demonstrations calling for a ceasefire, November 4 2023
Features / 9 November 2023
9 November 2023
SOLOMON HUGHES exposes the off-the-cuff improvisation of new 'rules' used by the political class and its supporters that are currently being deployed in support of Israel's bloody war on Gaza
a school safety zone sign
Features / 3 November 2023
3 November 2023
The man appointed to regulate schools is the head of a giant academy chain of 41 schools with a turnover in the millions: the boss class’s choice then — and already a friend of the Tory government, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair (left) and Labour leader Si
Features / 19 October 2023
19 October 2023
Spreading its neoliberal ‘reform’ mission around the world, the institute has been raking in the cash working for any government that pays — now it’s looking at Britain, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
energy bill
Features / 6 October 2023
6 October 2023
SOLOMON HUGHES reports from Tory Party conference where E.ON and EDF were calling for government action to preserve their profits as thousands of customers struggle to pay their bills
during the State Banquet held at Buckingham Palace in London
Features / 28 September 2023
28 September 2023
Attendance and viewing figures for the coronation show a slump in support for Charles Windsor, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Liz Truss returns
Features / 22 September 2023
22 September 2023
Liz Truss is back as a rebel icon for Tories preparing for a spell in the wilderness — when they return, they may be heralding an all-out ‘flat tax’ assault on our welfare state, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
keir starmer
Features / 14 September 2023
14 September 2023
A recent article by Claire Ainsley conceals more than it reveals about current Labour thinking, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Gillian Keegan
Solomon Hughes / 8 September 2023
8 September 2023
The hotch-potch of local school management allows central government to pass the buck over the Raac concrete crisis, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves
Features / 31 August 2023
31 August 2023
Is the shadow chancellor’s pledge to ‘not tax the rich’ just a ruse to get into office, which will then be reversed? SOLOMON HUGHES looks to a public spending turnaround in 1998 for possible evidence
a general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Features / 18 August 2023
18 August 2023
SOLOMON HUGHES looks at the multiple IT projects that are currently failing the NHS, and asks why the state doesn’t simply train its own health staff to do the work in-house
Starmer
Features / 3 August 2023
3 August 2023
There’s a swathe of people now belatedly realising just how right-wing and policy-free Starmer’s Labour now is, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
SO+cooper
Features / 14 July 2023
14 July 2023
Shared ownership is set to be another broken retaining wall in the housing crisis, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Boris Johnson
Features / 29 June 2023
29 June 2023
SOLOMON HUGHES laments that the media and the official opposition are more interested in Boris Johnson’s drinking and deceiving than the much larger scandal of deaths in care homes
the BBC Broadcasting House in London
Features / 23 June 2023
23 June 2023
Our state broadcaster is so excited about the dangerous fake news coming from the fringes that it has not bothered to fact-check wildly inaccurate Establishment research, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Reeves and Starmer sell out
Features / 16 June 2023
16 June 2023
SOLOMON HUGHES reveals why Labour is attempting to build its own spending review body: the existing one might not like its love affair with the outsourcing giants who provide terrible value for public money
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer chairs a meeting with shadow
Features / 9 June 2023
9 June 2023
The proposed massive investment in a greener economy looked like a flagship policy — but it is already on shaky ground when Labour figures cannot make the most basic arguments for it, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer meets customers at the Cupcak
Features / 1 June 2023
1 June 2023
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the reprised role of Lexington Communications – key player in the 1999 cash-for-access scandal
The Louis Vuitton store on New Bond Street, London
Features / 25 May 2023
25 May 2023
Luxury fashion house Luis Vuitton-Moet Hennessy and its chairman have recently become poster-boys for the ugliness of capitalism. SOLOMON HUGHES explains why
Just Eat
Features / 25 May 2023
25 May 2023
An adviser to a shadow minister was handed a tasty freebie in the form of tickets to the British Kebab Awards from notorious ‘gig economy’ employer Just Eat. So much for caring about workers’ rights, says SOLOMON HUGHES
PV
Features / 18 May 2023
18 May 2023
SOLOMON HUGHES discovers that supposed grassroots campaigners from Our Future Our Choice and For Our Future’s Sake who helped deliver Labour’s disastrous second referendum policy are now happily ensconced in pro-Brexit-type jobs
AWKWARD TRUTHS: Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murthy would di
Features / 4 May 2023
4 May 2023
Privateer Circle Healthcare is back, this time funding the wife of a health minister to send business to them — away from the NHS. What a strange coincidence, says SOLOMON HUGHES
stevenage
Features / 20 April 2023
20 April 2023
A think tank that was originally seen as ‘soft-left’ has released a new report that leans right on social issues – and right on economics too. How convenient for the Labour leadership, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
INTELLECTUAL WING: Academic Matthew Goodwin aims to lend his
Features / 13 April 2023
13 April 2023
Matthew Goodwin wants us to worry about a ‘new elite’ of media workers and academics, not the actual elite of billionaires — like his backers. SOLOMON HUGHES unveils the trail
Matt Hancock
Features / 7 April 2023
7 April 2023
To ease the pressure on the NHS, private hospital chains were given state money to take care of non-Covid cases — the problem was, they only did half the work, explains SOLOMON HUGHES
By appointment: Tory-fying the state
Features / 30 March 2023
30 March 2023
This era of crony conservatism has been characterised by sticking failed politicians into any state body available — sometimes to neutralise it, sometimes for a favour down the line, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
WMDs
Features / 24 March 2023
24 March 2023
Back in 2009, SOLOMON HUGHES debunked the media's misinterpretation that an FBI agent’s long-withheld notes showed that Saddam ‘bluffed’ about having germ and nuclear weapons. But now the media is running this fake news once again