South Africa‘s G20 presidency comes to an end this month, with a devastating takedown of global inequality — neoliberalism. This hard-capitalist ideology is the ruling class’ move towards unbridled wealth extraction. Global inequality — false scarcity The presidency, which alternates betwe...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves plans to shield banks from tax rises in her budget on 26 November, according to the Financial Times. At the same time, there is widespread speculation that she will raise income tax for workers, shredding the Labour electoral mantra that they will ‘make work pay’. ...
UK citizens on benefits may have their energy debt cancelled, should they pay what they can in the meantime. But there’s a catch: everyone else in the country will pay for the relief through higher energy bills. That’s despite the UK energy sector, including corporate suppliers and the pri...
The Greens with Zack Polanski are now polling at 17%, one point higher than both Labour and the Conservatives. That said, Reform is still leading on 32%, according to Find Out Now. Are the Greens bringing about the beginning of the end for the two main parties? Could the two-party consensu...
Keir Starmer’s “plan for change” is all talk, a new report by charity Carnegie has suggested. There has been no improvement in people’s overall wellbeing since Labour came to power. The collective wellbeing score stands at 62%. This has stagnated since 2023. Yet so far, the corporate media...
Recently elected Green Party leader Zack Polanski has been causing a corporate upset with his media rounds. This time he was on Sky News, responding to the idea that he’s splitting the ‘left vote’ and that people should vote for Labour, a larger and more established party, to defeat Nigel ...
The BBC is right. Agricultural cost increases have contributed to food inflation. But supermarkets like Tesco have used the inflation as cover to increase their profits further, known as greedflation. The cost of food has risen by 37% in five years across the board, but some essentials are...
Donald Trump may offer refugee status to people who oppose immigration, according to the Telegraph. And apparently that degree of obvious hypocrisy isn’t satire. It may as well say ‘the US will allow people who oppose immigration to become immigrants’. Anti-immigrant Trum...
Labour MP Clive Lewis took to social media and made the Economist look like a tabloid. The paper’s apparently essential question in a recent article was: How long can governments live beyond their means? “Economic claptrap” But Lewis dismantled the question itself with knowledge of Modern ...
Political commentator Ash Sarkar not only dropped facts about billionaire Britain on BBC Question Time, she also exposed the con that is privatisation of essential services. Ash Sarkar: the “failed experiment” First, Sarkar took down the corporate robbery of privatisation via new figures f...