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Spy Cops: UK Backed Infiltration of Left-Wing Groups for Decades, Documents Show
The Home Office backed the creation of a police special unit to infiltrate trade unions, Black power, women's liberation and even children's rights groups. → Read More
Why is the government helping virus-stricken mortgage holders but not renters?
A hell of a lot of Tories are true blue members of the landlord class, points out SOLOMON HUGHES → Read More
C-19 crisis – the Tories are keen to regulate people but not property
Under emergency powers, Johnson is seeking the right to arrest humans, but wants to leave assets to run free, writes SOLOMON HUGHES → Read More
Boris Johnson: not just a sneering snob
It's important to know your enemy. SOLOMON HUGHES takes a closer look → Read More
Help to buy scheme turns out to mean ‘help the rich’
THE National Audit Office (NAO) inspection of the Conservatives’ help to buy scheme this month found more than half of people using the government’s loan scheme could have bought a house without state support. Help to buy, launched by then Tory chancellor George Osborne in 2013, offers buyers zero-interest loans worth up to 20 per cent of the cost of new-build houses. The NAO report means that… → Read More
Whatever happened to ‘new centrist party’ United for Change?
With Change UK having flopped, SOLOMON HUGHES takes a look at the fortunes of another centrist group set up by Lovefilm founder Simon Franks → Read More
How can Labour members lift the siege mentality?
Creating shifts at the grassroots is key, says SOLOMON HUGHES → Read More
Inside Wetherspoon’s ‘low pay’ fringe meeting at Tory Party conference
Pub chain boss Tim Martin spoke at an event on lousy jobs alongside Esther McVey and Iain Duncan Smith, days before facing strike action by his own workers. SOLOMON HUGHES reports → Read More
‘Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?’
SOLOMON HUGHES explains how Britain’s academy schools programme is really based on a plan by George W Bush → Read More
The Taxpayers’ Alliance may get a lot of TV airtime, but who are they really?
The Taxpayers’ Alliance likes to talk about government funding. But it keeps its own funding completely secret, says SOLOMON HUGHES → Read More
What the Story of the Billionaire Behind Pig-Gate Tells Us About British Politics
The One Percenter who spread the news about UK Prime Minister David Cameron's alleged naughty business with a pig is far from an unbiased source. → Read More
This British Foreign Minister Acted as an Arms Dealer to Colombia
And a Royal Navy ship was the floating sales office for an arms-trade party. → Read More
These Are the British MPs Who Were Given Free Tickets to Glastonbury Festival
Who says Glasto's not cool any more? Certainly not James Heappey MP, a former soldier who strongly supports the retention of Trident. → Read More
The Former US Military Top-Brass Working for Companies Profiting from Drone Warfare
There's a revolving door between the US army and the companies paid multi-million dollar contracts to support drone warfare. → Read More
"Disrepair" And "Overpowering Smell Of Urine" At Care Home Owned By Millionaire Tory Donor's Firm
Care inspectors have found two care homes run by the family firm of Lord Popat were "unsafe". → Read More
Meet The Most Powerful Court You've Never Heard Of
The London Court of International Arbitration is a private enterprise with increasing influence over the public sector. BuzzFeed News explains how a new transatlantic trade treaty, TTIP, could give... → Read More
The US Military's Forgotten Sex-Abuse Scandal That Foretold CIA Torture in the War on Terror
In 1995, the US Air Force's torture training led to a court case and allegations that cadets had been abused, an eerie foreshadowing of the larger scandals that would come in the following decades. → Read More
NHS Contract Awarded To Private Firm Despite Rival Bid Being "£7 Million Cheaper"
Private company Alliance Medical beat an NHS bid to win a contract to provide cancer scan services across the North West of England. Conservative MP Malcolm Rifkind sits on the board of the private... → Read More
Boris Johnson and His Luxury Housing Lobbyist Bedfellows
Johnson approved a luxury housing development days after their lobbying group sponsored his conference speech. → Read More
Private Health Lobbyists Are Funding a Meeting with a Tory Minister
The Conservative Party conference meeting will discuss making people pay to go to the doctor. → Read More