Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
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Andy Burnham’s growing stature has fuelled hopes of a Labour revival – but ALAN SIMPSON warns that Britain’s crisis runs far deeper than just its leadership and traces its roots to decades of financialised capitalism
SEVERAL days ago, Thames Water was fined £20 million for pumping 20 million litres of raw sewage into the waters of the Thames. This is quite literally the opposite of what a firm called Thames Water should do.
The case was well covered in the press because pouring millions of litres a day of visible human waste into the Thames is newsworthy, even these days.
Judge Francis Sheridan, who ordered the fine, said Thames Water had a “history of non-compliance” with rules, and ignored repeated warnings its own staff wrote down in logbooks.
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