It’s official: Britain’s out-of-control finance sector is threatening our national security
How banks, accountants and toothless regulators are shielding fraudsters from accountability.
Prem Sikka
New figures reveal an auditing sector that is beyond repair
A huge portion of audits are ‘poor quality’. What other sector would be allowed to get away with this?
Prof Prem Sikka: Budget spending is insufficient and inconsistent
Nothing for local authorities, public sector workers or the self-employed.
This government’s approach to bailouts is a national disgrace
The Tories’ handling of the economic crisis linked to Covid has been shambolic from the start, writes Prof Prem Sikka.
This Tory government is no friend of small businesses
In the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, the UK’s small businesses face an uncertain future and the government has done little to help them.
Millions of pensioners are in poverty. We can’t let the Tories scrap the ‘triple lock’
Here’s how we can pay for a vital rise in the state pension next year.
The economy after Covid: It’s time to bust some neoliberal myths about debt
The right will try and push for a new round of cuts after this crisis. It would be economically illiterate to do so, writes Prof Prem Sikka.
Elites will use this crisis to reshape the state. We have to push back
We have the money to build a better society after this crisis. But corporations and the right are already undermining our welfare.
Prof Prem Sikka: The corporate bailout bill will hurt workers and pensioners
US companies have used bankruptcy to shed jobs and scrap wage agreements.
Why the Bank of England’s new bailout ‘conditions’ are nothing of the sort
Governments across the world are fudging it when it comes to the ‘strings attached’….