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‘Business Councils’ – the Conservatives’ corrupt corporate cronies
SOLOMON HUGHES reveals the calibre of the creeps that head up Tories’ rotten business network
In the third of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP
NICK WRIGHT recalls one man’s journey from student revolutionary to Labour grandee – part of a wider world of working-class militants and communist activists whose lives shaped a generation and who should not be forgotten
Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era
THIS month Boris Johnson had a “meeting with Business Council co-chairs,” according to a No 10 press release.
These “Business Councils” are one of the key ways government consults big business. They give an interesting picture of which corporations count, politically.
One striking feature is how many of these companies have been involved in major corruption scandals: it does make it seem that the most important British corporations are always close to corruption.
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