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 […]
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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 […]
Ο Προϋπολογισμός που καταθέσατε είναι μια κωδικοποίηση ενός αφηγήματος success story με το οποίο θα πορευθείτε, κυρίες και κύριοι συνάδελφοι της Νέας Δημοκρατίας, θα πορευθεί ο κ. Μητσοτάκης κατά τη διάρκεια της προεκλογικής περιόδου. Και το success story στο οποίο βασίζεστε έχει μια απλή λογική. Το είπε και ο κ. Γεραπετρίτης πριν. Θα πείτε «είχαμε να αντιμετωπίσουμε μια σειρά από πολλαπλές […]
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On behalf of DiEM25, greetings and Happy New Year. 2022 brought us a hideous War and crippling price hikes. 2022 brought environmental disaster closer to home and varieties of neofascism at our door. 2022 was the year our dire predictions about Europe’s failures and the world’s slide into a New Cold War were confirmed. But, […]
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Vice-president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine Ian Higgingson doesn’t expect to be trampled in the rush of politicians coming to experience appalling situation they’ve created Ian Higginson, Vice-President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, has challenged politicians to come and experience for themselves the horrors faced by NHS staff and patients, in an […]