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Broadband supply: public money for private ineptitude
The Tories screwed up the energy market by artificially boosting phoney competition with lots of little firms that went bust and had to be bailed out — incredibly, they are now doing the same for broadband, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
Broadband installation has tended to favour wealthier urban areas
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
WHEN big corporations supplying critical services exploit their dominant positions, there are two common solutions: from the left, public ownership, and from the centre and right, “more competition.”
The “more competition” plan was tested in energy supply: instead of bringing lower prices and more choice, “more competition” just let a load of spivs cash in while the public was left with a £6 billion-plus bill. Now it looks like the same might be happening in broadband supply.
In energy, the government and the regulator Ofgem were under pressure over the behaviour of the big six energy suppliers. Many felt the top energy firms used their dominance to overcharge customers and generally treat them badly.
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