The energy price crisis is also down to the UK’s obsession with privatisation
This week Shell reported that its profits have increased from $4.85bn to $19.3bn as rising energy prices have filled its coffers.
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Calls for a 6% increase to benefits to protect low-income families amid cost of living crisis
‘There has long been a profound mismatch between what those with a low income have, and what they need to get by’
How we can reverse the financialisation of the care sector
The care sector is only one example of how financialisation – the turning of society to serve finance, rather than seeing finance serve society is a leader, in the wrong direction
The government’s latest attempt to make Brexit work will fail
Boris Johnson says the Brexit Freedom’s Bill will help the UK become “the number one place invest and do business because of freedoms that we have.”
‘How about we get what we were promised’: Andy Burnham hits out at Tories’ Northern Powerhouse remarks
As the government finally publishes the long-waited ‘levelling up’ white paper, the Manchester mayor blasts MPs for suggesting the city ‘should be grateful’ for scaled-back rail plans.
‘Hugely outrageous’: Raab under fire for inaccurate claims on rape conviction rates
The deputy PM has been slammed for making false accusations that Starmer oversaw falling rape and sexual offence conviction rates while director of the Crown Prosecution Service.
Prof Prem Sikka: The government is plumbing to new depths of waste, incompetence and fraud
‘The latest evidence of incompetence is in the annual report and accounts of the Department of Health and Social Care for the period ended 31 March 2021.’
Disinformation minister refuses to condemn Boris Johnson’s lie
Chris Philp refused to distance himself from Johnson’s false claim and far-right smear that Starmer had failed to prosecute paedophile Jimmy Savile while he was director of public prosecutions.
Levelling up? 2 key facts that show how the country has become less equal under the Tories
Cuts to English council and schools’ spending have been larger in more deprived areas.
Tories talk tough on Russia but what about London’s Kremlin-linked oligarchs?
Sanctions and tough talk will do little to tackle the fraud and money laundering that has become so problematic in London.