The top 1,000 wealthiest individuals and families in Britain are sitting on a record £771.3 billion, up £47.8 billion in a year. This astonishing fact is in this year’s Sunday Times Rich List. At the same time millions of children from working families are living in poverty, more than a third of babies are living […]
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Duke’s Car Crash: One Law for Them and Another for Us
Just in case there was any doubt that it’s one law for them and another for us, Prince Philip cleared that up as he ploughed his tank-like Land Rover 4×4 into the path of a lowly Kia. He blamed his careless driving on being dazzled by the sun. “I’m such a fool,” he remarked to […]
Leicester Leadership
Since the inception of the Premier League – the money bags version of a football league – to choose to support a club outside the ‘top-six’ is to choose adversity gift-wrapped. That was certainly the experience of Leicester City supporters when Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha bought the club in 2010. Soon after, he bought back […]
Leicester Says Dump Trump!
Despite freezing cold weather, more that 50 people gathered at the Clock Tower in Leicester on January 20th, to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump. Women of all ages were present, all expressing alarm at the prospect of an openly sexist and misogynist leader of the United States. “Dump Trump- racist Trump! Dump Trump- sexist […]
Black Lives Matter Activist Darletta Scruggs On Building Resistance Against Trump
Donald Trump’s election is a massive setback for working-class people the whole world over, but at the same time his election reflects the growing anger of the 99% at the 1% who make up the ruling class. U.S. Socialist Alternative’s Darletta Scruggs spoke at the Socialist Party’s annual conference in London over the weekend, and […]
Ministry of Justice : Stop this Privatisation Scandal!
Tory hatchet man and Minister for ‘Justice’ Michael Gove, last seen terrorising the education system, is now at the centre of the looming privatisation of court fine collection. Aggressive American outsourcing giant Concentrix is currently the only bidder for the £675m contract, work currently undertaken in-house by the National Compliance Enforcement Service (NCES). The contract […]
Leicester’s Three TUSC Parliamentary Candidates Issue Challenge to Other Parties
The publication of the Sunday Times Rich List just last weekend once again highlighted the growing gap that exists between the super-rich and the majority of the people of Leicester. The Rich List highlights how over the last year the richest 1,000 people have seen a £28 billion rise in the wealth they control. Heather […]
How the Super-Rich Get Away With It
“Tax avoidance – everyone does it.” That is according to multimillionaire, former hedge fund manager and Tory donor, Lord Fink. While his claim certainly isn’t true for the majority of us, amongst the circles that Lord Fink mixes in, it is par for the course. For the wealthiest in society there are loopholes and quirks […]
