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Prem Sikka

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

Prem Sikka: A boost in the minimum wage is welcome, but more must be done to improve people’s material conditions

Prem Sikka
21 March, 2025

‘Despite the increase, the minimum wage will still be comparatively low, and millions will live below the minimum acceptable standard of living.’

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Opinion

UK governments are failing to curb corporate tax abuses and leaving people to pay the price

Prem Sikka
14 March, 2025

Governments remain obsessed with austerity and choose not to inconvenience the rich or curb tax abuses by corporations.

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

Here’s how Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement must offer hope

Prem Sikka
7 March, 2025

‘The government needs to recalibrate policies’

Donald Trump
Opinion

How governments distract from social injustice by creating moral panics

Prem Sikka
21 February, 2025

Censorship and indoctrination diminish the possibilities for emancipatory change

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The water industry shows how the state indulges corporations to the detriment of society

Prem Sikka
4 February, 2025

Since 1989, water companies have been the subject of over 1,100 criminal convictions, but governments are content for them to control the industry.

Pensioners

Pensioner poverty in the world’s sixth largest economy is a political choice

Prem Sikka
27 January, 2025

The hardship inflicted on retirees now will surely visit future retirees unless steps are taken to alleviate misery.

Labour leader Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves reading papers
Opinion

Labour hasn’t delivered growth or happiness. It needs an economic reset.

Prem Sikka
17 January, 2025

Successive governments have tailored economic and tax policies to impoverish the masses

A photo of the House of Commons
Opinion

MP’s second jobs are institutionalised bribery. They should be banned.

Prem Sikka
10 January, 2025

‘Preventing MPs from selling their souls to the highest bidder is a necessary step in democratising parliament.’

house-commons
Opinion

How our democracy has been hijacked by corporations and wealthy elites

Prem Sikka
3 January, 2025

The only effective remedy is to ban all private donations, or bribes, to political parties.

Keir Starmer
Opinion

Labour’s drift to the right could risk Keir Starmer being a one-term prime minister

Prem Sikka
20 December, 2024

The government’s honeymoon has been short lived.

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