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Corruption is the name of the game
by New Worker correspondent
ONE OF THE quainter traditions of British politics is Black Rod having the door slammed in his face at the State Opening of Parliament. Another is the Annual Lobbying Scandal when a senior ex-politician is discovered lobbying for some favour or other from his former colleagues who are presently in office. These favours are generally not a request for a dim-witted nephew for a job in the post-room of the ministry, but for vast sums of public money to be diverted to the company that employs said ex-politician.
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Corruption is the name of the game
Posh school’s pensions
by New Worker correspondent
ONE MATTER on the agenda of the National Education Union (NEU)’s online Annual Conference was on behalf of teachers working in the independent sector – where teachers are not as well off as the rich children they teach.
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A Scratched Record
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
NOT MUCH has been happening on the Holyrood election trial due to the campaign being rudely interrupted last Friday lunchtime when seemingly more pressing matters started to dominate the airwaves.
We will therefore take the opportunity to reflect on the glorious achievements of the SNP Government since it first formed a minority government in 2007. This was with the de facto backing from the Tories, a fact the SNP are very discreet about.
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USA out of Ukraine!
by New Worker correspondent
ON 10th April anti-war activists rallied outside the army recruitment centre in New York’s Times Square to demand justice for five-year-old Vladik Shikhov, killed on 3rd April by a Ukrainian drone strike on his Donetsk village. They called for an end to the US–NATO war build-up against the Donbas people’s republics and Russia.
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USA out of Ukraine!
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Reviewed by Ben Soton
The Syndicate, Series Four. Created and written by Kay Mellor, BBC TV (2021–). Tuesdays at 9pm on BBC1, also available on BBC iPlayer. Stars: Neil Morrissey, Liberty Hobbs, Emily Head, Kieran Urquhart, Taj Atwal, Katherine Rose Morley.
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