Cashing in on the Housing Crisis
The Help-to-Buy scheme is marketed as an effort to solve the housing crisis, but it’s actually about the Tories helping those who benefit from the crisis get even richer.
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Solomon Hughes
Solomon Hughes has been writing about corporate influence in politics for twenty years, mostly for Private Eye. He also has a weekly column in the Morning Star.
The Labour Right’s Bookie Boys
As the gambling industry preys on millions of vulnerable people for profit, it can be comforted in the knowledge that it will always have one friend it can rely on: the Labour right.
Tory Party Conference: A Carnival for Lobbyists
Beyond the platform speeches and right-wing provocations, the real story of Conservative Party conference is the lobbying – with corporations paying for access to the country’s most powerful politicians.
GB News Is the Latest Plaything for Britain’s Right-Wing Millionaires
GB News, which launches next week, portrays itself as an insurgent force in British media – but its funding reveals it to be just another attempt by right-wing millionaires to control public discourse.
Peter Mandelson: Lobbyist for Union-Busters, Big Banks and Oligarchs
Peter Mandelson’s return as an advisor to the Starmer leadership doesn’t just drag the party to the right – it also puts a major corporate lobbyist, who represents union-busting Centrica, at the heart of Labour politics.
The Department for Deloitte
Tory peer James Bethell once helped Deloitte get government contracts as a private lobbyist. Now, as a health minister, he has overseen a test and trace system which employs 1,127 of their consultants.
Failing the Public While Making a Killing
England’s privatised test and trace system is failing by all international standards, but two corporations – Serco and Sitel – stand to make three quarters of a billion anyway. It should be a national scandal.
How Public Funds Are Being Used to Attack Teachers’ Unions
Right-wing lobby group the New Schools Network receives 83% of its funding from the public despite being an ‘independent charity’ – and now it is devoting its resources to attacking teachers’ unions.
Government by Landlord
Boris Johnson’s government is dominated by landlords, many of whom own multiple properties and make a fortune from rent. It isn’t a fluke that they support policies which harm tenants – it’s class politics.
The Lib Dems’ Attack on Workers
During their time in government, Jo Swinson and her Lib Dem colleagues set about pricing thousands of workers who were unfairly sacked out of access to justice.
The Tory Tax Cut Scam
In pledging to freeze corporation tax cuts, Boris Johnson has exposed a decade of Tory arguments that cutting taxes would increase revenue to be little more than a propaganda exercise for the super-rich.
The Tories’ War on the NHS
The Tories have despised the public ethos of the NHS since it was founded. In power, they have privatised its services any chance they could – often making handsome profits in the process.
Best for Britain and the Spyware Scandal
Best for Britain, the anti-Brexit pressure group which received criticism over skewed tactical voting guides, is linked to an explosive spyware scandal targeting journalists and activists resisting dictatorships.
Behind Royal Mail’s Attack on Workers
Gig economy profiteers, Tory privatisers and corporate union busters: meet the Royal Mail bosses leading the attack on the company’s workers.
The Tories’ Lobbying Bonanza
This week’s Tory Party conference featured a perp walk of corporate ghouls – from public service privatisers to gig economy scammers and arms industry lobbyists – rubbing shoulders with government ministers.
The Lib Dems’ New Friends
Anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, anti-immigrant – the Liberal Democrats’ new recruits are anything but liberal.
Priti Patel: Right-Wing Zealot
Commentators have hailed Priti Patel as part of Boris Johnson’s ‘modern cabinet.’ But her politics are driven by nostalgia for the very worst of the Thatcher era.
The Same Old Lib Dems
The Liberal Democrats are posing as a ‘progressive’ alternative to Labour. But their leading lights are as pro-austerity as ever.
What Can We Expect from Boris Johnson?
Favours for wealthy donors, white elephant vanity projects and a carousel of controversies. Welcome to Boris Johnson, PM.
There’s No Such Thing as a Nice Tory
Whether they’re Cameroons or Brexiteers, every single Tory leadership candidate is implicated in a decade of policies that tore Britain’s social fabric apart. None of them deserve to be Prime Minister.