Channel 4’s Dirty Business shows why private companies cannot be trusted with vital services like water, says PAUL DONOVAN
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Banker’s bonuses: another Labour betrayal
We are lurching backwards politically now that both major parties are united in servicing the City before all else, writes BERNIE EVANS
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves during a visit to the London Stock Exchange Group, September 22, 2023
Washington’s unprecedented capture of the Venezuelan president was meant to demonstrate US power — but instead it has galvanised the Bolivarian movement and exposed the limits of the regime change agenda, argue ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
With our ruling class struggling to secure a new vehicle for power and the disintegration of the traditional party system, a volatile new chapter is opening, sharpened by war, austerity and electoral distortion, argues NICK WRIGHT
TONY FOX reports from a commemoration of the legendary Battle of Jarama in which four Stockton-on-Tees volunteers fell
Does widespread and uncontrolled use of AI change our relationship with scientific meaning? Or with each other? ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
WITH plans to “unashamedly champion Britain’s financial services sector,” cut down on “10,000 pages of regulation,” and impose no windfall taxes on banks despite their record profits, it came as little surprise that a Labour government will not reinstate the cap on bankers’ bonuses.
In July last year, for example, Natwest announced half-year profits of £3.58 billion, up from £2.6bn the previous year.
Imagine how much they and the other profiteering banks will be paying in bonuses to people who will have contributed nothing towards the higher profits, which were simply made by the exploitation of British customers, delaying an increase in savings rates after raising them for borrowers immediately after the Bank of England announced hikes in the base rates.
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