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Prem Sikka

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Opinion

We need to get serious about tackling corruption through political donations

Prem Sikka
17 February, 2026 (2 days ago)

The government’s reforms are welcome but they won’t end political corruption

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Opinion

National Insurance is a regressive tax that hits the less well-off hardest

Prem Sikka
6 February, 2026 (2 weeks ago)

Compared to income tax, national insurance contributions attract little sustained scrutiny even though they provide large amounts to the public purse.

Water coming out of a tap
Opinion

Public ownership of water is the only way to deliver security, efficiency, investment and value for money

Prem Sikka
30 January, 2026 (3 weeks ago)

37 years of privatisation has been a disaster

Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s imperialism is the latest tool to advance the hegemony of US capital

Prem Sikka
13 January, 2026

Trump’s policies are not isolationism. They’re seeking to thwart the emergence of a multipolar world.

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Opinion

To tackle child poverty the government must deal with parental poverty

Prem Sikka
12 December, 2025

Labour’s child poverty strategy offers some welcome measures, but it won’t address the factors keeping families trapped in poverty

Rachel Reeves leaving Downing Street to deliver her budget
Opinion

The government’s budget is simply managing decline

Prem Sikka
28 November, 2025

The budget does little to improve living standards or facilitate sustained economic growth

Rachel Reeves holding the budget briefcase outside Number 11 Downing Street
Opinion

This is how Rachel Reeves could deliver a progressive budget

Prem Sikka
21 November, 2025

The chancellor has an opportunity to boost the public purpose and deliver redistribution

Canary Wharf

Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich

Prem Sikka
7 November, 2025

The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few

Why the banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty

Prem Sikka
27 October, 2025

Despite making record profits and paying record returns to shareholders it resents paying taxes.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves with the budget briefcase
Opinion

Rachel Reeves’ budget must reduce inequalities and increase spending capacity of the masses

Prem Sikka
17 October, 2025

This is how to secure sustained economic growth

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