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With grim predictability the relentless economic conservatives in this Tory-led government have made the incision that starts the slow bloodletting of our bit of Lloyds on the London stock market.
What else could we expect from an incompetent Chancellor who follows the out-of-date mantra that sees salvation only in giving up government powers over our society and handing them to discredited "market forces."
Yesterday's sale of 6 per cent of the bank was well-trailed, and reflects the dogmatic phobia among the right of having to do anything more than set fragile rules within which, it is claimed, markets will deliver us to riches.
PHILIP ENGLISH says military spending will not create the jobs young people need — instead, build an economy based around needs, not profit
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba
