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Hands off our postal service

Tuesday 21 May 2013

A government guided by common sense would respond to news that publicly owned Royal Mail has increased profits to £403 million by scrapping plans to flog off the service.

No excuse for drone killings

Monday 20 May 2013

Foreign Minister Alistair Burt's admission that the Cameron government has "supported" a survey of attitudes to US drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas amounts to a tacit admission of British involvement.

Exploit Tory woes, Labour

Sunday 19 May 2013

Lord Feldman says that he didn't call grassroots Tories "mad swivel-eyed loons" while his accusers stand by their stories that he did.

Stand by our firefighters

Friday 17 May 2013

Fire Minister Brandon Lewis probably had a fair idea what Sir Ken Knight would deliver when he asked him to conduct an "independent" report into fire and rescue services in England.

RBS job cuts are a scandal

Thursday 16 May 2013

Unite national officer Dominic Hook's description of the latest jobs massacre at RBS as "brutal and irresponsible" says it all about a bank that is 81 per cent publicly owned but has no public allegiance.

Osborne the job stealer

Wednesday 15 May 2013

Britain's latest jobless figures stand as stark condemnation of George Osborne's refusal to face reality and admit that his austerity agenda is a killer for jobs and workers' living standards.

Private-sector incompetence

Tuesday 14 May 2013

Shouldn't the small group of private conglomerates backed by the government to take over our public services be expected at least to dream up new excuses for poor performance?

Rhetoric and reality on tax

Monday 13 May 2013

Actionaid's revelation of the scale of British corporate involvement with tax havens exposes the yawning gap between government rhetoric and reality.

Blood on the Tories' hands

Sunday 12 May 2013

"Where is the fairness, we ask, for the shift-worker, leaving home in the dark hours of the early morning, who looks up at the closed blinds of their next door neighbour sleeping off a life on benefits?"

IDS should apologise

Friday 10 May 2013

When government ministers make up evidence to justify their policies, it's an indication of their desperation and their unsuitability for office.