
Corporate vs human welfare: The story of Drax
There is no means-testing for corporate welfare payments.
There is no means-testing for corporate welfare payments.
Despite the damning evidence the government is clinging on to private ownership of water, which has fleeced customers for 36 years.
Laws and policies are crafted to give the appearance of sternness and fairness, but are rarely fully enforced on corporations and the rich.
This bill grants the government powers of surveillance on the bank accounts of the poor, old, sick and disabled people receiving specified benefits
The obscene profits of the energy industry show the sector is broken
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement is atest
‘Despite the increase, the minimum wage will still be comparatively low, and millions will live below the minimum acceptable standard of living.’
Governments remain obsessed with austerity and choose not to inconvenience the rich or curb tax abuses by corporations.
‘The government needs to recalibrate policies’
Censorship and indoctrination diminish the possibilities for emancipatory change