November 2011
‘Workers are children, and if you don’t like high pay, move to Cuba’
Alex Hern covers the extraordinary comments of Dr Heather McGregor, who thinks workers are basically children, and that if you don't live in Cuba, you shouldn't have a say in how your company is run.
Shapps’s subprime stimulus is a bailout for housebuilders
Kevin Gulliver details the flawed concept and execution behind the government's new housing strategy, but welcomes the desire for stimulus which lies behind it.
Tabloid hypocrisy shocker: “Aren’t those other papers nasty, with all that hacking?”
Alex Hern reports on the remarkable degree to which every tabloid manages to avoid reporting on its own implication in the phone hacking scandal.
Scottish union chief accuses government of behaving like a “Victorian millowner”
One of Scotland’s major teaching unions has warned that virtually every school north of the border now faces closure on the November 30th, reports Ed Jacobs.
Unless pay gaps are reduced, we’ll end up with Victorian levels of inequality
Unless the trend towards greater inequality is halted, we may end up back at the levels of disparity “evident in Victorian England”, the High Pay Commission says.
Egyptian military’s violent crackdown threatens dream of democracy
The latest news from Egypt, where bloggers are being arrested and protesters are being shot with American-made teargas, in a haunting repeat of the Spring.