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Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
Con-Dem housing policy: Thatcher's unfinished business
In the first part of a new features mini-series GLYN ROBBINS examines how Britain came to be so obsessed with home ownership
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
The government is pursuing an ideologically driven housing policy that takes up where Thatcherism left off.
The right to buy helped decide the 1983 election and the Tories hope that promoting home-ownership will do the same in 2015.
The influential Conservative think tank Renewal has recently argued that tackling housing is the only way David Cameron can connect with working-class people, particularly outside south-east England.
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CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
