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Too many empty promises
DIANE ABBOTT explains the consequences of Labour dropping the green investment plan
PROMISES, PROMISES: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaking at the launch of the Labour party's mission on cheaper green power, setting out policies on clean energy, at Nova Innovation, Edinburgh last June
A part of the British empire’s network of slavery, today the Caribbean island of Nevis faces a new form of exploitation in the form of crypto-colonialism, CLAUDIA WEBBE writes
A new book by Victoria Holmes illuminates the many hidden histories of the oppression experienced by Gypsy/Roma/Traveller community, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Even the oligarchs of the artificial intelligence industries are warning that their creations have the capacity for the ultimate destruction of the planet and its population. ANDREW MURRAY suggests that there might just be other solutions
The Labour government must deliver on its commitment to bring back privatised services into the public sector. This not only saves money but also creates accountability and generates wider social benefits, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Public ownership of Great British Railways has enormous potential to improve our railway network, but that can’t happen unless jobs, employee rights and union recognition is at the heart of the transition, argues MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
Challenges from the unscrupulous misuse of AI to steal actors’ voice and physical likenesses is being met with a firm union response, writes LYNDA ROOKE
POLITICIANS are allowed to change their minds, especially when facts change. They are also allowed to change policies, otherwise every manifesto would be the same as the last one.
But what the voters do not accept is being hoodwinked. And they thoroughly reject policies that will make them worse off. In the decision to drop the Labour Party’s £28 billion green investment plan, Keir Starmer is guilty of both.
The decision to cut the investment programme (the Financial Times says that it has been cut to £4.7bn a year) is shocking but not surprising.
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