Comment

PUT rats in charge of the granary and, without doubt, you will get cereal thieving, and haven't Gordon Brown and his Chancellor Alistair Darling found the truth behind that rather feeble joke.

SOMEWHERE in the depths of the City, lurking behind closed doors, a coven of high-ranking bankers must be pouring out the champagne and celebrating raucously at the tops of their well-bred voices.

DATING from the collapse of the Soviet Union, capitalism appeared to enter a new phase.

THERE is absolutely no reason, apart from rampant greed, why petrochemical company Ineos should have to downgrade its current staff pension scheme at Grangemouth.

CONSTRUCTION Confederation chief executive Stephen Ratcliffe must think that the rest of us came up the nearest river on a bike if he thinks that we will accept his special pleading for the crooks in his organisation.

IF Justice Secretary Jack Straw really thinks that, as a part of doing a chummy little deal with the other parliamentary parties over funding rules, he can haul every penny of trade union cash given to the Labour Party straight into its central funds, to be dispensed as party HQ sees fit, then he has got another think coming.

GORDON Brown will, no doubt, preen with delight to hear that Digby Jones will continue to give him his 100 per cent support.

THE government portrays its new regulation making it mandatory for petrol and diesel to contain 2.5 per cent biofuel as a contribution to lessening oil dependency and building a renewable alternative.

THERE is always a note of schizophrenia in pronouncements by this government and its lackey press about the developing crisis of finance capitalism.

CANNON fodder is a cliché that springs easily to mind to describe the working-class youngsters who are sent off to foreign wars in the service of imperialism.