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It doesn't have to be like this
Official inflation figures understate the real extent of rising costs, but even the government's own CPI scheme lays bare the ongoing misery for working people and those dependent on benefits. People working in the Civil Service and other public services
Twigg needs to branch out
Stephen Twigg has won some initial support from teaching unions NUT and NASUWT for aspects of his plans for education in England. Reinstating the right for all learners to be taught by fully qualified teachers is vital and should be common ground for eve
Ruled by the tax-dodgers
Government leaders attending the G8 summit in Fermanagh feign concern about global poverty and corporate tax dodging, but they are committed to a system that guarantees such phenomena. David Cameron would have us believe that he has taken a huge step for
A recipe for bloodshed
British and French government warmongers have finally had their wish granted by Barack Obama's decision to increase the supply of arms to forces seeking regime change in Syria. David Cameron, William Hague and Francois Hollande are motivated by nostalgia
Sham offers from Erdogan
The sincerity of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's offer of talks with protest organisers is compromised by his treatment of peaceful protesters. Tear gas, water cannon, rubber bullets and baton charges are not acceptable means of dealing wit
Deregulation gone mad
"It's health and safety gone mad" is a saying, like "It's political correctness gone mad," that encapsulates a right-wing agenda. Critics of supposed political correctness long for the days when it was acceptable to abuse...
Business won't solve hunger
If David Cameron is serious about helping African countries to take action to tackle hunger, the last thing he should be doing is bankrolling transnational corporations to the tune of £395 million. The 40 companies to which he intends to distribute large
There is an alternative
The People's Assembly Against Austerity has the potential to unite disparate political forces in a coherent rebuff to the government's austerity agenda and to offer a real alternative. The alternative is not of the "vote for us and it'll all be...
Miliband's forked tongue
Trade unionists should beware of reading too much into Ed Miliband's speech on welfare and mistaking what they would like to see in it for what's actually there. No labour movement activist could argue with his identification of housing benefit and worki
The great train robbery 2013
Just what would it take for cut-and-run National Express to be regarded as unfit to bid for a franchise to run passenger rail services in Britain? The company that preferred to leg it in 2009 from its contractual responsibilities to continue running the
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