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MEDIA barons’ attempts to aid their Tory friends flopped yesterday when a bid to beat off Labour’s war on wealthy tax-avoiders collapsed.
Senior government figures cowered from the limelight to avoid scrutiny of their finances after millionaire party treasurer and donor Lord Fink suggested that “everyone does” tax avoidance.
But in an attempt to halt a relentless Labour assault, their press allies — tax-dodging billionaires the Barclay brothers and Viscount Rothermere — threw all the mud they could at leader Ed Miliband.
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES