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JOHN McDONNELL has thankfully refocused attention from the ludicrous “traingate” to the real problems with our economy and society represented in microcosm by Sir Richard Branson.
Unfortunately Labour Party leadership contender Owen Smith has chosen not to join in and has lined up, as some prominent right-wing Labour MPs have, with the tax exile in claiming that all those reserved seats really were free for the taking.
Smith also focuses on the stripping of Establishment trinkets, missing McDonnell’s point that people such as Branson and BHS-destroying fat cat Sir Philip Green rake in baubles and plaudits from this country’s ruling class while taking us all for a very expensive ride.
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
The wealth of the super-rich grows by £35 million daily while our NHS and schools collapse — that’s why thousands of us will be gathering in London demanding that the billionaires foot the bill for the many crises they have caused, writes TYRONE SCOTT
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
British cross-border train fares far outstrip flights, ranking among Europe’s worst