If time is money, then why is it often ignored in relation to inequality and gender?
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The Republican Party’s Worst Nightmare
Republicans have been trying to crush unions for decades, but American workers are fighting back with a vengeance.
Many GOP leaders wink and nod while talking about “making America great again,” as if the country was more prosperous when they were in charge.
Rubbish.
Superb by Mick Lynch in this clip published by Joe.co.uk from last night’s Parliament Square gathering against the government’s planned anti-union laws: SKWAWKBOX needs your help. The site is provided free of charge but depends on the support of its readers to be viable. If you’d like to help it keep revealing the news as […]
During an appearance on LBC on Monday, Keir Starmer was asked by the presenter whether the country would be better off if Jeremy Corbyn was PM. He refused to answer: Hundreds of thousands have died needlessly since 2019 because of Tory governments. The economy is in collapse along with the NHS, other public services and […]
Damning words as Professor Philip Banfield says Labour has no clue how GPs or their referrals to specialists work – and aren’t willing to listen or learn Professor Philip Banfield, the chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) has publicly condemned not just the stupidity of Wes Streeting – and by extension his boss Keir […]
People are already criticised for turning up at GPs and A&E when they may not need to – a false accusation in many cases, used by politicians to excuse the interminable waits caused by intentional fragmentation, privatisation and underfunding. Now Keir Starmer wants to open the floodgates by allowing people to refer themselves to specialists […]
Can you say ‘Forde Report’, Ms Kendall? Labour right-winger Liz Kendall has used an appearance on Peston to regurgitate the thoroughly discredited – even by the party’s own inquiry – lie about Corbyn and the EHRC report. Kendall claimed Corbyn had ‘only himself to blame’ for Keir Starmer’s rule-breaking withdrawal of the Labour party whip […]
The Truth About Corporate Subsidies
Why won’t big American corporations do what’s right for America unless the government practically bribes them?
And why is the government so reluctant to regulate them?
Prior to the 1980’s, the U.S. government demanded that corporations act in the public interest.
For example, the Clean Air Act of 1970 stopped companies from polluting our air by regulating them.
Conspicuous Consumption in the US & Germany
Kevin Higgins, the brilliant socialist poet and political commentator, has died aged only fifty-six. One of the kindest and most generous people and a passionate supporter of human rights for Palestinians. Higgins’s poetry could be subtle or superbly acerbic, as in the case of this brilliant ‘tribute’ to Margaret Hodge, the unpleasant Barking MP who […]