CJ ATKINS takes a closer look at Trump’s recent spate of red-baiting speeches and asks why the authoritarian president is running scared
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The broken model of outsourcing and privatisation must be challenged, writes PAT RAFFERTY
Former Carillion boss Richard Howson has a camera shoved in his face
JOHN McINALLY sees little chance of change at Westminster, and calls on the left to get serious about building a real alternative
With the centenary of the UN Slavery Convention upon us, ROGER McKENZIE argues much needs to be done to rid us of all its contemporary manifestations
SEVIM DAGDELEN says European Nato states are escalating ever closer to direct conflict with a nuclear power, and sacrificing welfare states built up over a century to finance it
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
KENNY MacASKILL says the lines between party, government and Civil Service in Scotland have been blurred and we need a thorough investigation into how
PICTURE it if you will. It’s a family gathering and those crowded round the living room decide it’s time for the parlour game Who am I? The opening clues are male, alive, and in the news recently.
“I used to be the chief executive of a major multinational company,” the player says. “It has plundered the public purse for billions in the last few years alone. I was chief executive for five years — in that time I made more than £6 million in wages, not counting my shares.
“When I was chief executive we paid out £400m in dividends to the shareholders. In the same time we short-changed the pension fund for the workers which is why it has a black hole in it of almost £600m.
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