Prof Prem Sikka: Why the privatisation of the UK energy market has been a disaster
‘One of the aims of privatisation was to separate production and retailing of energy but that is not how it turned out.’
Inequality
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, November 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Prof Prem Sikka: Government is handing billions to speculators but squeezing pensioners and the poor
‘Compare the inhuman treatment of pensioners and other vulnerable groups with welfare programme operated for the benefit of finance industry and speculators.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, November 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Diane Abbott MP: ‘Sunak is another Tory chancellor playing the role of Robin Hood in reverse’
‘The Resolution Foundation put it succinctly, ‘On taxes, by 2027 average households will be paying £3,000 more in taxes than when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, October 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Jon Trickett: A Wealth Tax is a bold policy but our times call for nothing less
‘In Britain we tax income rather than wealth. This no longer makes sense in our day and age, if it ever did’.
Jeremy Corbyn: We need radical change to fix our destructive political and economic system before it’s too late
‘Our crises of climate, inequality, the Covid 19 pandemic and democracy are all linked, and all require radical solutions that put people and planet before the interests of the multinational profiteers’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, October 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Prof Prem Sikka: The government’s claims of not being able to lift retirees out of poverty are not credible
‘Even before the proposed suspension of the triple-lock, 2.1 million retirees (18%), including 1.25 million women, live in poverty compared to 1.6 million (13%) in 2012-13.’
