The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
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The Tory worldview is destroying Britain
Chancellor Philip Hammonds latest Budget wasnt so much compassionate conservatism as zombie conservatism, writes CHRIS STEPHENS
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KEITH FLETT recalls ‘the most advanced political programme to appear on the left until the time of the Bolsheviks’
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Sixty years of blockade have not made Cuba collapse, but they have devastated it. While Washington stands isolated at the United Nations, the Cuban people are paying the price, writes KATRIEN DEMUYNCK
As Armistice Day approaches, with the far right hoping to use it to promote their own form of ‘patriotism,’ NICK WRIGHT considers the nature of conflicts in the 20th and 21st centuries and the different ways they should be remembered
LAST week’s Budget was nothing less than a deliberate slap in the face to all those who were hoping for some relief from the austerity agenda, as the Chancellor added calculated insult to repeated injury.
It was widely trailed in the media that the Tories were going to lift the public-sector pay cap after pressure from all sides, including their backbenchers, but as it turned out there was nothing concrete on offer for working people, no real money on the table, only vagueness, evasion and endless reviews.
The only difference between this Chancellor and the previous one is that of style not substance. Where George Osborne could best be described as a tin of gloss — superficially painting over the cracks in our broken economy — Philip Hammond is the tin of matt, hoping to hide the worst lumps and bumps with repeated applications of more of the same.
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