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GEORGE OSBORNE'S Autumn Statement scares the pants off me. Billed as a give-away programme to boost the NHS and the economy, its real impact could be to throw Britain into a new round of recession and austerity.
The Chancellor knows that his tax revenues are shrinking - the rich no longer pay tax and the poor are too poor to make up the difference.
However much he promises the NHS, the Chancellor knows he will have to borrow £100 billion to balance the books this year.
ALAN SIMPSON warns of a dystopian crossroads where Trump’s wrecking ball meets AI-driven alienation, and argues only a Green New Deal can repair our fractured society before techno-feudalism consumes us all
With the death of Pope Francis, the world loses not only a church leader but also a moral compass
