“IF YOU’RE president of the CBI and there’s a moth flying around the Prime Minister, do you (a) kill it, (b) catch it or (c) ignore it?”
So asked Paul Drechsler in a noble attempt to liven up yesterday’s CBI snoozefest at the Grosvenor House Hotel. He chose, of course, option C. But at least the flitting red gatecrasher got its five minutes of fame as Theresa May proclaimed her love of capitalism.
The platform was more successful at ignoring something much bigger — Britain’s vote to leave the EU.
As extremist movements grow on the streets and at the ballot box, the emergence of the Together Alliance points to a vital strategy: unity across trade unions, campaigners and communities, says TONY CONWAY
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth


