Public Services
The Royal Mail is a good reason to change the borrowing rules
Why do we insist that there is no difference between a profitable business that pays its own way, like the postal service, and one that depends mainly on taxation to fund it, like a school or a hospital?
Right-wing think tank admits stamp price rise and Post Office closures after Royal Mail privatisation
Right-wing think tank Bow Group has admitted that the privatisation of the Royal Mail would see the price of stamps rise and leave a "poisonous legacy" for the Tory party.
Scottish council tax freeze benefits rich at expense of the poor
Scotland’s council tax freeze is harming local public services and benefiting the wealthy the most, undermining the Scottish government’s assertion that the policy is a "vital lifeline to hard pressed Scots".
The ultimate betrayal – Shirley Williams and the Lib Dems hit the NHS where it hurts
April 24 brought Lord Philip Hunt’s motion against the Health and Social Care Act Secondary Legislation Section 75 - a rarely achieved format in the Lords, only allowed in exceptional circumstances.
Video: Big six energy company paid no corporation tax in three years to 2011
Energy company RWE npower did not pay a single penny of corporation tax in three years despite making profits of £766 million.
Royal Mail wants to combine the best of the private and public sectors
Earlier this week Mario Dunn of Save Our Royal Mail wrote a post claiming that privatisation of the postal service […]