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Our nation's wealth is squandered at the time of need
DOUG NICHOLLS, general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions, takes a look at private wealth, compares it with public revenues and spending — and questions its future
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IF you took the wealth of the lowest earner on the Sunday Times Rich List 2019, with his pathetic £120m in the bank, it would take an NHS clinical nurse currently on £32,000 per annum 3,750 years of proper, valuable graft to earn that amount.
This same nurse would have to work for ten years to afford the two pounds in weight of white truffle that a peckish billionaire recently snaffled up, for a mere £300,000, for a starter with his mates.
The Sunday Times Rich list is compulsory reading each year.
Given the ruses used to hide real wealth it’s a wonder that the researchers keep up so diligently. 2020’s hasn’t come out yet, so we are using last year’s figures.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has done a great job too in tracking the scams and dodgy dealings which the rich use to stash their cash from Switzerland to Mauritius, Panama and Jersey.
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