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SOLOMON HUGHES asks why government ministers are keeping their talks with disreputable outsourcing firm Serco a secret
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
THE new Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, says companies running government services should be covered by the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.
She’s right. But at the same time the government is saying right now that its talks with one private provider, Serco, should remain secret.
Which is especially worrying because it says Serco’s government talks must be secret because the firm is helping it with “the formulation of policy.”
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