Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Is the end of global tax-dodging in sight?
To make the super-rich pay their fair share, Britain must back the UN Tax Convention, argues NURI SYED CORSER of War on Want
LEVELLING THE PLAYING FIELD: (L to R) Brian Niccol of Starbucks and Charles III
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BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
INDUSTRIAL-SCALE tax-dodging by the super-rich and big corporations is one of those galling injustices that feels so everyday that it’s hard to stay outraged.
This week, we learnt that governments around the world lost half a trillion dollars to tax-dodging.
Starbucks, whose new CEO commutes to work by private jet, paid just £7 million on its £548m of UK sales. Meanwhile, global inequality is skyrocketing.
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