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The covid crisis proves that corporate welfare is the rule rather than the exception. We desperately need a new social contract*
Kevin Farnsworth *An edited version of this piece appears in Tribune: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/05/corporate-welfare-is-not-the-exception-its-the-rule Although the present Covid-19 crisis is one of the most serious health crises in living memory, it also threatens to create […]
Manifesto Watch: Content analysis of Conservative and Labour Manifestos, 1945-2019
There has been a great deal of interest in recent years in the direction of travel of the main political parties in the UK. The Conservative and Labour Parties have both been accused of harking […]
Revealed: global video games giants avoiding millions in UK tax
Source: Revealed: global video games giants avoiding millions in UK tax | Games | The Guardian
Airbus and the Corporate Welfare Gravy Plane!
We have written before on the way in which governments subsidise aircraft manufacturers. To build an aircraft requires huge investment and risk and both are beyond many companies. Governments also have an interest in continual […]
Outsourcing company Working Links ceases work
One of the UK’s biggest providers of probation services has collapsed. Working links, an employment and probation services company entered administration on 15 February. The outsourcing company had been severely criticised by inspectors. The Chief […]