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Claims of murky corporate manoeuvring at bankrupt courier City Link grew yesterday as its owners were accused of asset-stripping and cash grabs while thousands lose their jobs.
Business Secretary Vince Cable faced union calls for a “forensic investigation” into the collapse of the company, whose tax-dodging parent Better Capital (BC) stunned workers by announcing they were out of a job on Christmas Day.
Taxpayers are now likely to foot the redundancy bill for up to 2,700 former staff who face P45s by New Year’s Day.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
![BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE: Yanaocha mine in Cajamarca, Peru is the largest gold mine in South America operated by Newmont Corporation. It is considered the most profitable in the world [Pic: Elbuenminero/CC]](https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/desktop/public/2025-09/extractive%20caoitakism%20webpic.jpg.webp?itok=lkf5b6oi)
JOE GILL appreciates a lucid demonstration of how capital today is an outgrowth of the colonial economy
