The Co-operative movement has announced a "Revolution" and aims to treble its membership and become a force to be reckoned with. But while it builds on economic success and reasserts its ethics, the politics of the movement remain uncertain.

Why does the Health Secretary think that the private sector needs a subsidy to be able to enter the market for services now provided by the NHS? Because public provision is a more efficient way to do things, maybe? But then why get rid of it?

George Soros writes in the FT that the EU is making two mistakes: "One is that they are determined to avoid defaults or haircuts on currently outstanding sovereign debt for fear of provoking a banking crisis. The bondholders of insolvent banks are being protected at the expense of taxpayers. This is politically unacceptable. A new Irish government to be elected next spring is bound to repudiate the current arrangements. Markets recognise this and that is why the Irish rescue brought no relief." Brian Landers reminds us of the North African history that illustrates well that national bankruptcy is a perfectly good way of dealing with unaffordable debt.

The legal privileges of the corporation are social, not natural. It is dangerous to slip into the thought that corporations are people. US Justice Brandeis saw this clearly: "Through size, corporations, once merely an efficient tool employed by individuals in the conduct of private business have become an institution - an institution which has brought such concentration of economic power that so-called private corporations are sometimes able to dominate the state."

A new report exposes what the UK's working but not well off millions are up against - a triple beating.

Unto those who have, more will be given' may be familiar. But do those who have less actually themselves give to the wealthier? As equality and fairness become key terms in the UK's political debate, we need to think in terms of how people spend not just their income.

A lucid demonstration of how the corporate and financial system robs people of their pensions using one revealing and appalling example that gets no coverage in the UK media.