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Tory headbangers set their sights on ‘slashing red tape’
The government is trying to use Brexit to rejuvenate its anti-regulation approach – but just how ‘independent’ are its supposedly independent new advisory reports, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
The Grenfell fire should stand as a warning that cuts to ‘red tape’ can lead to tragedy
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THERE is a small skirmish inside the government that should be made into a bigger conflict over “slashing red tape.”
Two “independent” reports commissioned by the government — that actually come from complete Tory headbangers — are recommending the government return to a crude, regulation-slashing measure called “one-in-two-out.”
Departments will be instructed to delete two old regulations for every new one they create.
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