No Telegraph, the rich aren’t paying more tax than in the 1970s
Just ask the Barclay brothers
Thatcher
Public institutions are being felled – now can we accept that privatisation is a disaster?
The felling of Sheffield trees offers a broader lesson
Neoliberalism has failed to boost productivity. Social democracy has a better record
Productivity growth was higher from 1945-1972 than under Thatcherism
Tories are making Britain great again – for Thatcherite inequality
Poor families will be £600 worse off by 2020/21
Blairism is dead and gone – the left should stop talking about it
Even the Tories are walking away from the old economic consensus
Comment: The Tories have now gone further than Thatcher – to the extremes of British politics
The parallels in tone with the Thatcher era were clear
Comment: Blairism is no solution to identity crisis
It should be a matter of huge concern to Labour that working-class voters feel they have to turn to UKIP
Is David Cameron our prime minister, or just a travelling arms merchant?
This weekend a coterie of British businessmen including the arms dealer Rolls-Royce were jetted around Kazakhstan on board the private plane of its dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled the large Asian republic for 23 years by filtering oil revenues into his private bank account and cracking down on dissent.
Pensions – an unfinished revolution
Before Mrs Thatcher destroyed Britain’s post-war pension consensus, Beveridge had given us a decent state pension that kept up with earnings, and Barbara Castle had added an earnings related state pension (SERPS) to those whose employers did not provide a decent workplace pension on top.
Now we know: Thatcher shut down debate on Trident. Will the coalition follow course?
Kate Hudson of CND reveals what 1981’s cabinet papers show about Mrs Thatcher’s determination to secure Trident over the objections of her own party.