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By AnnaJoy David Why were none of us surprised when we heard recently that another bit of track had broken off this ramshackle rail network system of ours? Government consultations and announcements come and go - the latest from Lord Adonis…
By Jeremy Corbyn MP This article was first published in the Morning Star. On Monday Peter Mandeslon gave his Prime Ministerial speech to his favourite think tank about future Government spending. Later the same day Kenneth Clarke told the…
By Richard Murphy A decade ago almost no one paid any attention to tax havens, or secrecy jurisdictions as I now term them. There were two reasons for this. The first was that the secrecy they promoted was very successful - so no one…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft "Let me make it clear: they are not wrong to be planning cuts but they are wrong to try to cover up their plans for cuts. This is about honesty, it is about trust. This is about not taking people for fools". So…
By Joe Cox A year on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and it appears little has been learned. Whilst the government boldly led a rescue of the failed private banking system the fundamental questions about the effects of high pay on our…
By Chris Cook When history is written, the collapse of Lehman Brothers will be seen as a moment which defined the collapse of a complete economic paradigm and its accompanying ideology. That this was so became apparent to me during a ten…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Below is some video and the full text from Gordon Brown's speech this afternoon to the TUC: Friends let me first of all thank your General Secretary Brendan Barber, your President Sheila Bearcroft, and all the…
The Labour movement column from Tokyo By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter A year ago Lehman Brothers collapsed. The response was resolute. The British government - the Prime Minister and the Chancellor - acted with alacrity and with…
The Labour movement column from Tokyo By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter A year ago Lehman Brothers collapsed. The response was resolute. The British government - the Prime Minister and the Chancellor - acted with alacrity and with…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The full text of Peter Mandelson's lecture to Progress this morning is now available on the Progress website. Mandelson says: "What has been instructive is how the past year has exposed the limits of David…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Peter Mandelson will this morning outline Labour's priorities for a new government and say that the party will focus on "wise spending, not big spending" to help reduce the defecit. In the speech to Progress…
By Robbie Erbmann / @robbierb I won't be the first blogger during this particular guest editorship to remind people of the important role that co-operative values and principles have to the future of our economy. The challenges that we face…
