The truth behind Labour’s plans to ‘renationalise’ rail One thing about an incoming Labour government looks great: taking the railways into public ownership. But we won’t actually own the trains, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 16th Jun 2023 Teaching the watchdog not to bark SOLOMON HUGHES reveals why Labour is attempting to build its own spending review body: the existing one might not like its love affair with the outsourcing giants who provide terrible value for public money
Friday 09th Jun 2023 Labour’s Green Prosperity Plan revisited: will they, won’t they? The proposed massive investment in a greener economy looked like a flagship policy — but it is already on shaky ground when Labour figures cannot make the most basic arguments for it, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 02nd Jun 2023 The Labour Party becomes the Lobbyists Party SOLOMON HUGHES probes the reprised role of Lexington Communications – key player in the 1999 cash-for-access scandal
Friday 26th May 2023 SMDH LVMH Luxury fashion house Luis Vuitton-Moet Hennessy and its chairman have recently become poster-boys for the ugliness of capitalism. SOLOMON HUGHES explains why
Thursday 25th May 2023 Dodgy Labour doners An adviser to a shadow minister was handed a tasty freebie in the form of tickets to the British Kebab Awards from notorious ‘gig economy’ employer Just Eat. So much for caring about workers’ rights, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 19th May 2023 Where are they now? The ‘fake’ anti-Brexit activists at Labour Live SOLOMON HUGHES discovers that supposed grassroots campaigners from Our Future Our Choice and For Our Future’s Sake who helped deliver Labour’s disastrous second referendum policy are now happily ensconced in pro-Brexit-type jobs
Thursday 04th May 2023 Tories exposed in the latest ‘conflict of interest’ register Privateer Circle Healthcare is back, this time funding the wife of a health minister to send business to them — away from the NHS. What a strange coincidence, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Thursday 20th Apr 2023 Labour Together’s handy ‘Stevenage Woman’ A think tank that was originally seen as ‘soft-left’ has released a new report that leans right on social issues – and right on economics too. How convenient for the Labour leadership, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 14th Apr 2023 The financial backers of the war on woke Matthew Goodwin wants us to worry about a ‘new elite’ of media workers and academics, not the actual elite of billionaires — like his backers. SOLOMON HUGHES unveils the trail
Friday 07th Apr 2023 Covid and the private hospitals: the great bed rip-off To ease the pressure on the NHS, private hospital chains were given state money to take care of non-Covid cases — the problem was, they only did half the work, explains SOLOMON HUGHES