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Occupy protesters in new London protest
Saturday 12 May 2012
Anti-capitalism protesters from the Occupy movement have pitched tents outside the Bank of England, they said tonight.
Various Pets Alive and Dead, By Marina Lewycka
Sunday 01 April 2012
How to fool the children of the revolution
Diary: Militant tendencies resurface in Left's 'Abba generation'
Tuesday 21 February 2012
Labour Party veterans remember the great Militant war of the 1980s, as members of a secretive Trotskyist sect who denied being a party within the party were hunted down and expelled, one by one. Eventually, they gave up on the Labour Party and now function openly as the Socialist Party. Their leader, Peter Taaffe, was a guest speaker last week at the Oxford Debating Union.
Martin Hickman: Unbridled greed of Big Six cannot be tolerated in hard times
Friday 10 February 2012
The Big Six exert a far tighter stranglehold on energy than their counterparts in other industries with large calls on household budgets. The results of this oligopoly are over-the-top prices, confusing bills and poor customer service.
Leading article: Talking sense on fair taxation
Friday 27 January 2012
Nick Clegg's proposal to push ahead "further and faster" with plans to raise the income tax threshold may bear all the hallmarks of political choreography. And it may not be the difference between recession and recovery. But it is no less important for all that.
Andrew Grice: PM lags behind in rush to embrace moral markets
Saturday 21 January 2012
Inside Westminster
Chris Bryant: Changing how capitalism works won't be popular with everyone. But it must happen
Saturday 21 January 2012
A Political Life
Cameron sets out vision for 'popular capitalism'
Thursday 19 January 2012
The Prime Minister set out his vision of a "socially responsible and genuinely popular capitalism" today.
Ed Miliband: PM must tackle surcharge culture
Thursday 19 January 2012
Ed Miliband today challenged David Cameron to tackle the "surcharge culture" that sees consumers "fleeced" by powerful vested interests.
Margareta Pagano: It shouldn't be so taxing to bring in share ownership for the workers
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Midweek view
Ed Miliband 'winning battle of ideas'
Sunday 15 January 2012
Ed Miliband claimed today he was "winning the battle of ideas" but said it was a "hard process" to change the Labour Party.
'Project Ed' to be relaunched –with a dose of economic reality
Tuesday 10 January 2012
The Labour leader today takes the fight to Cameron in a speech focusing on a 'responsible capitalism'
David Usborne: Capitalist credentials will decide contest
Tuesday 10 January 2012
Democrats who believe that Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee this year calculate that one word may end up deciding his match-up with Barack Obama. It is Bain.
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