DIANE ABBOTT explodes the anti-migrant myths perpetrated by cynical politicians and an irresponsible mass media
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In his concluding article, ROB GRIFFITHS argues than only a tax on the assets and incomes of the richest can deliver the investment we crave
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
Read part I of this article at http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-e143-The-illusory-recovery#.VcjRdEVsUmI
THE main point of austerity has never been to reduce the government’s annual spending deficit or the national debt.
If it was, the bond and currency markets would have punished Chancellor George Osborne every time he missed a deficit reduction target as the debt has grown.
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