The warnings about Barclays’s tax-dodging greed were there in 2008
Cormac Hollingsworth explains how the warning signs for Barclays’s tax-dodging were there back in 2008.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Le Pen’s fascists claim French youngsters are ‘joining in their droves’
Marine Le Pen’s Front National have claimed that young people are joining the fascists ‘in their droves’.
Even GPs implementing Cameron’s health reforms have come out against them
Even GPs who are implementing the NHS reforms oppose them – it’s time to drop the legislation and strangle the disastrous health and social care bill.
The benefits Britons want to save are the ones the Tories want to cut
Declan Gaffney examines Progress’ report on the support for benefits cuts in depth, and finds that it doesn’t show what it purports to show
FISKED: News Corporation’s ‘we didn’t hack (that much)’ 2009 statement
Alex Hern looks through News Corporation’s 2009 statement on hacking. Is there any line which is true?
Occupy London evicted, but are St Paul’s sad to see them go?
Alex Hern looks at the eviction of Occupy London from St Paul’s, and asks how much the church had to do with it. Are they really sad to see them go?
Salmond courts Murdoch as pro-union dream team finally begins to emerge
Ed Jacobs reports on the solidification of the pro-union side in the Scottish referendum – and not a moment too soon, as Murdoch comes out batting for the nationalists
Is the government finally ‘getting it’ on industrial policy?
Tony Burke assesses Nick Clegg’s commitment to industrial policy, and asks whether it shows he’s getting better, or if it’s just all talk.
Nick Clegg’s letter to Lib Dem MPs and peers is just furious spin concealing NHS privatisation
Clegg praised the Labour’s Lords health team for helping to ensure the NHS bill did not lead to privatisation. They insist the service is still under threat.
Why haven’t we intervened in Syria? Is Iraq to blame? Is Libya?
Ben Mitchell argues that the examples of Iraq and Libya are scaring western governments from intervening in Syria – and maybe that’s a good thing, he says.