Lead story

We need homes not bubbles

by Daphne Liddle

THE AVERAGE price of a home in Britain has just reached a new record according to the Office for National Statistics. The average price of a house or flat in Britain is now £247,000, the highest figure since the index was first calculated in 1968.

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Taxpayers cheated on Royal Mail price

THE COMMUNICATION Workers’ Union last week said that the taxpayer has lost out in the Government’s haste to sell Royal Mail.

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Editorial

De-Americanising the world

THE UNITED States seems to be poised on the brink of committing suicide as a global economic power but the fall-out threatens many other countries. After two weeks with no official government because the Republican-controlled Senate is refusing to pass the budget, which includes funding for a new comprehensive health insurance system referred to as Obamacare, a deadline is fast approaching for the US to raise its total debt ceiling. And it cannot do this without a government. If it does not it will default on its massive loans and send the global capitalist economy into chaos.

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