Tax, spend—and hope
Labour seems short of ideas—but the party has a rich intellectual tradition. In the first of a series on the books that shaped the party, Philip Collins revisits the impact of Sidney and Beatrice Webb’s ‘A Constitution for a Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain’
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The Insider
England’s bus plan: copy London
The metro mayors in the Midlands and the north have been transforming their cities’ public transport services. A new age of the bus beckons
Magazine
Francis Fukuyama sets out what is at stake if Donald Trump wins, an investigation reveals how much councils spend on temporary accommodation and Sarah Manavis examines why some women are drawn to misogyny
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Phone Hacking
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Phone Hacking
Did the Murdoch empire hack MPs for commercial ends?
What if Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper company didn’t just hack phones to get a scoop, but targeted elected politicians—right to the very top—in pursuit of its business ambitions?
