Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1072/30202 From The Socialist newspaper, 5 February 2020 photo CCO/CC (Click to enlarge) Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, Socialist Party executive committee A debate, of sorts, is opening up on nationalisation in the Labour leadership election. Support for public ownership – or not – is an indication of which …
Read More »After Brexit-settling election, firms see business bounce
‘For three years we were stuck in a rut of indecisiveness,’ Bruderer U.K. managing director Adrian Haller, seen here on Jan. 24, 2020, said. ‘Once the election happened, there was a massive sigh of relief.’ HENRY NICHOLLS/Reuters At Bruderer U.K., a small firm selling metal-stamping machines from an industrial estate …
Read More »I agree with Jeremy Corbyn
I agree with Jeremy Corbyn. And John McDonnell. And Seumas Milne. And all their allies. To return to power, and notwithstanding its catastrophic election campaign, Labour’s central task in 2020 is to make the case for socialism. My disagreement is not with that statement, but with what “socialism” means. It …
Read More »Travelling music festival comes to Mt Sturgeon
Award winning and nationally acclaimed Adelaide-based concert series, The Porch Sessions, is heading on tour this summer, coming to Dunkeld on Wednesday 22 January 2020 for one magical night. The tour visits nine other porches between Byron Bay and Adelaide, but, in perhaps the most spectacular location of the trip, …
Read More »Labour victory would wipe £367bn from UK shares and hit millions of pension savers
A Labour Government would wipe £367bn off the value of Britain’s listed companies and send the pound plunging, economists warned ahead of Thursday’s General Election as polls showed the race is too close to call. The party’s plan to hike business taxes to one of the highest rates in the western world …
Read More »Despite Donald Trump's attack on the international postal system, he might be in for a nasty …
A Royal Mail van drives through the Drumochter Pass in Scotland on March 11. In October, 100,000 Royal Mail staff voted to go on strike over job … Source link
Read More »Labour set to smash own borrowing rules with £58bn pension spree
Labour has already blown apart its own spending rules with a £58bn pledge to compensate women hit by a rising pension age, a leading think tank warns today. The Conservatives also have the “thinnest of margins” as they seek to meet their own fiscal pledges unveiled less than a month ago, …
Read More »Game Theory: the e-mail trail
Published Oct 8, 2019 at 8:00 am (Updated Oct 8, 2019 at 9:14 am) Kevin Richards, business development manager at the Bermuda Development Agency (Photograph by Blaire Simmons) The BDA released more than 600 hard-copy documents it held about Game Theory, or …
Read More »Post Office recognised for customer service
Published Oct 1, 2019 at 1:09 pm (Updated Oct 1, 2019 at 1:09 pm) Wayne Furbert, Minister for the Cabinet Office Later this month, the Bermuda Post Office (BPO) will be formally recognised by the Universal Postal Union (UPU) during a special …
Read More »Retford parcel firm fined £40,000 over illegal relationship with Royal Mail Group
A parcel company based in Retford has been hit with a £40,000 fine after it admitted having an illegal anti-competitive agreement with Royal Mail Group. The SaleGroup, of Rectory Road, which trades as Despatch Bay, and Royal Mail’s ParcelForce division had a deal to share customers from August 2013 and …
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