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It’s Time for the Government’s Contempt for Lawyers to End
Barrister Gareth Roberts explains the importance of the industrial action approved by the Criminal Bar Association Outside Court 4 of the large municipal court building where I spend most of my days, a barrister sits waiting for the doors of the court to open. She looks weary. “A stinky return,” she tells me, which is…
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How an Influential Pro-Russian Business Network Worked Silently Within Westminster for Decades
TJ Cole explores how the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce has attempted to shape UK politics and trade for more than a century
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The Non-Dom Conservative Oligarchy
Playboys and plutocrats are now the natural constituency of Boris Johnson’s party, argues Sam Bright
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Has Austerity Made it Harder to Find Dirty Money?
Sian Norris asks if cuts to the criminal justice system, and wealthy oligarchs spending big bucks on the best lawyers to protect their riches, have impacted efforts to go after financial crime
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Levelling Down: Government Energy Inaction Will Hit the Poorest People and Regions
Spiralling household costs will undermine Boris Johnson’s promises to ‘Red Wall’ voters, reports Thomas Perrett
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How Johnson’s Government is Using Oligarchs in its Attempt to Rebuild the ‘Red Wall’
Sam Bright and Sascha Lavin explore how the Government is inviting questionable regimes into Britain’s former industrial heartlands
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All the Conservative Manifesto Promises Boris Johnson has Broken
The Prime Minister’s promise not to raise National Insurance is the latest in a growing list of ripped up pledges from his 2019 manifesto, reports Adam Bienkov
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From Nostalgic Disability Direct Action On Screen – To Rishi Sunak’s Cold Shoulder in the Spring Budget
A new BBC film, ‘Then Barbara Met Alan’, looking at the beginnings of disability direct action, contrasts sharply with Rishi Sunak ignoring disabled people from his Spring Statement, says Penny Pepper
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Official Documents Show Government is Falling into Another Russia Trap – With Saudi Arabia
The Byline Intelligence Team has obtained internal official briefing notes showing how the Government is making overtures to Saudi Arabia on multiple fronts
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Putin’s Gulag-Based Empire of Abduction, Deportation, and Modern Slavery
Brad Blitz and Alexandra Lewis explain how Russia’s mass deportation of Ukrainians is not an accident, but central to the ‘Ru.Lag’ – the Kremlin’s new form of political and economic control
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Sunak’s Russia Spin Shows He’s No Different to Johnson
The Chancellor is debasing public standards and ethics in exactly the same way as his boss, argues Rachel Morris
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Very Inefficient Process: Watchdog Exposes Government’s PPE Failures
The National Audit Office has produced more shocking statistics on the £13 billion of contracts awarded to personal protective equipment suppliers, reports Sam Bright
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak in New Financial Connection to Russia
Sam Bright explores the links between a firm owned by Sunak’s wife and a Russian billionaire
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Ukraine Changes Everything: The Collapse of Boris Johnson’s Brexit World Order
Professor Chris Painter sees Putin’s invasion of his neighbour as a major turning point in history, with the values of multilateralism and an activist state set to break the spell of Johnsonian politics
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NHS Staff Face £50 a Month COVID Tests Simply to go to Work
The end of free lateral flow tests will cost NHS staff extra cash each month – while councils warn that they need more funding to manage COVID-19 outbreaks and the poorest risk not being able to test at all
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‘Close to Useless in Every Way’: The Government is Pursuing Economic and Climate Disaster
Thomas Perrett reviews Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement and how it affects the UK’s climate change commitments
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The Flawed Logic of Extreme Australia Free Trade Deal Optimism
Ben Ramanauskas critiques the outlandish ideas of influential Brexit economist Professor Patrick Minford Several weeks ago, Professor Patrick Minford of Cardiff University – one of the most influential economists in pro-Brexit circles – claimed that the UK’s free trade deal with Australia would be worth £69 billion to the UK economy, the equivalent of 3% of GDP.…
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Rishi Sunak’s Russian Hypocrisy Shows Who he is Really Protecting
The Chancellor told UK firms to cut ties with Russia – while his own family has kept hundreds of millions of pounds of shares in a company still operating in Moscow
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OBR Forecast Reveals Pressures on NHS Waiting Lists – and Casts Doubt on Chancellor’s Cash Promises
Published in the minutes following the Chancellor’s Spring Statement, the Office for Budget Responsibility’s fiscal forecast raises alarm over post-pandemic health pressures
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‘Profiting from Putin’s Russia’: Quarter of Council Pension Funds Invested in Russian Firms
Sascha Lavin reviews the extent to which UK councils have propped up the companies linked to Putin’s war effort
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All the Bad News Rishi Sunak Buried in his Spring Statement
Finer details in the Chancellor’s budget statement reveal that taxes will rise, incomes will fall, and the young and poor will pay the price
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Amongst the Noblemen: How Russian Money Bought the British Class System
Charlotte Robinson explores the ways in which oligarchs have managed to embed themselves in the aristocracy
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New Stats Show Rich Getting Richer as Cost of Living Crisis Bites for the Rest
New data shows highest paid payrolled employees saw wages soar by just under £3000 a month since 2014, while the poorest got a paltry pay rise of £167, Sian Norris reports
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London’s Financial Giants Have Made Billions from Russia’s State-Linked Companies
TJ Coles explores the tangled web that exists between British and Russian money
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How Levelling Up, Brexit and the Ukraine War are Intertwined
Sam Bright explores how Brexit has exposed Britain to the reverberations of the war in Ukraine
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UK Politics Stands at a Crossroads – Which Path Will the Conservatives Choose?
Robert Saunders assesses whether war in Ukraine will result in British governance rolling-back its recent destructive tendencies – or whether it will further retreat into them
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Boris Johnson has Left an ‘Oligarch Loophole’ in the Economic Crime Bill
The Government’s ‘crackdown’ on money-laundering by Russian oligarchs has a large loophole which will allow some oligarchs to be exempted, reports Adam Bienkov
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Conservatives Cannot Fix a Cost of Living Crisis of their Own Making
The Government does not have the ideological or intellectual tools to stop Brits from being squeezed, says Mike Buckley
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The Ukraine War Has Exposed the UK’s Russia Delusion
Successive governments have chased Russian roubles while ignoring geopolitical reality, reports Sam Bright
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The Economic Crime Bill Doesn’t Nearly Go Far Enough
If the Government really want to seize the assets of Russian oligarchs, the Economic Crime Bill doesn’t go far enough, says Gareth Roberts
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The Brexit Build Back Botch: Businesses Visited by Boris Johnson See Profits Collapse
Sascha Lavin explores the reality behind the Prime Minister’s economic exaggerations
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The Conservatives Have a Long History of Taking Money From Russia
TJ Coles explores the Conservative Party’s decades-long attempts to schmooze Russian oligarchs
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Solidarity Forever! The Modern-Day Strikers of Britain
From university lecturers to delivery drivers and security guards, people across different sectors of the UK are fighting for workers’ rights and expressing mutual support
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The Real Trojan Horse: Beware Russians Bearing Gifts
As Russian troops reach Kyiv, state terror is rained on innocent civilians. Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu explore why the British Conservative Party has ignored Putin’s violent extremism in the mother of all intelligence failures
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UK Sanctions Will ‘Flop’ Because the City of London is Compromised by Russian Money
A former US defence advisor warns that Britain is likely to be the biggest drag on any Western sanctions initiative against Putin
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Vladimir Putin Holds Up a Dark Mirror to Boris Johnson
Though the British Government and the Kremlin appear to be in conflict, Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu trace the underlying currents of oligarchy that unite them.
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The Biggest Intergenerational Gaps in Modern Britain
Sascha Lavin considers the vast, unspoken inequalities that exist between young and old
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Sunak’s Inadequate Response to the Energy Crisis Reflects the Treasury’s ‘Business As Usual’ Approach on Climate Change
The Treasury’s role in not forestalling investment in renewable energy sources is a key reason the Government cannot address the root causes of the cost of living crisis, says Thomas Perrett
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Lifting Ban on Asylum Seekers Working Helps Economy – Government Plans Expensive Immigration Deterrents Instead
A new report estimates plans laid out in the Nationality and Borders Bill could cost £2.7 billion a year – but allowing people seeking asylum to work could boost UK economy
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‘Levelling Up’ Will Fail – Because Inequality is the Conservative Business Model
Rebalancing the circumstances of the richest and poorest is not in Boris Johnson’s DNA, says TJ Coles
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Damning Report Suggests Government is Soft on COVID Fraud
A committee of MPs has found that HMRC is failing to deal with an ‘avalanche’ of fraud by businesses during the pandemic, reports David Hencke
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The Rent Trap: Britain’s Broken Housing Market
Rachel Morris delves into one of the major causes of poverty, inequality and insecurity in modern Britain
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Rishi Sunak’s Energy Delusion
The Chancellor’s suggestion that a future of dirty, expensive energy is inevitable and that the public must simply accept it is false, says Nafeez Ahmed
