Here’s why unchecked corporate profiteering is the real reason for high inflation
‘The UK inflation rate is high because of failed government policies’
‘The UK inflation rate is high because of failed government policies’
‘There has been an ‘abject failure’ in leadership from the government who have done absolutely nothing to reduce these staggeringly excessive profits of supermarkets like Tesco.’
‘We live in a world dominated by corporations who control the supply of food, water, medicines, energy, transport, savings, pensions, deadly weapons and most other things.’
‘The corruption takes different forms and always leaves innocent people worse-off, but there is no end in sight.’
Our government already hands sweetheart deals to globe-trotting business
Alex Hern examines the common link between the appalling bad RBS quarter, and the appallingly good Centrica one: Rewards for failure.
Chris Jordan, a tax justice campaigner at Action Aid, writes about taking on the tax havens.
Mobile operators including Orange and T-Mobile are taking a significant cut of charitable donations made by text message. Charges of up to 20% are levied on small gifts.
New figures show HSBC’s top earner raked in £8.4 million, while 180 UK staff pocketed bonuses averaging £600,000, and HSBC paid just £236 million in UK corporation tax last year – despite doubling its profits to £11.8billion.