Protestors staged a demonstration outside the Vodafone store on Market Street for a second consecutive weekend on Saturday 6 November. They accuse the multinational telecommunications giant of owing £6bn in tax – a claim strenuously denied by the company.
Oldham East MP and shadow immigration minister Phil Woolas was ejected from parliament today after a court ruled that he had broken election laws by falsely claiming Muslim extremists were supporting the campaign of his Liberal Democrat rival.
Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital could lose up to a third of its funding as part of a nationwide cut to children’s hospitals, Department of Health proposals have revealed.
Protesters claiming that Vodafone owes the public £6bn in unpaid taxes shut down the phone company’s store in Manchester City Centre on Saturday as part of a nationwide day of action, during which shops were also closed in central London, Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hastings, Liverpool, Oxford and York.
What a difference a year makes. Back in 2009, finance was public enemy number one. The lunatic expansion and under-regulation of dodgy financial services had precipitated an economic crash that destroyed tax revenues and stretched dole queues. The bailouts transferred tens of billions of public money into the black holes of bank balance sheets. If […]
However much the Conservative Party paid Rooney to divert everyone’s attention over the last few days, it has been money well spent. The Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) announced this Wednesday in parliament is the most strident attack on the welfare state in a generation, but there has barely been a hint of protest as yet. […]
“There was a warning – and its name was Enron.” So runs our understanding of the energy giant’s collapse in 2001, which is now recognised as one of the corporate world’s largest ever accounting frauds. Rupert Goold’s masterful production of recent history leaves you both brilliantly entertained and ominously haunted at the same time.
