Suddenly, politicians seem to be wanting to talk about work. Low wage work, minimum wage work, gig work, any kind of work. Just as long as there’s no contradiction between employers and workers…
The EU is standing to one side in the crisis over Catalonia. But the situation is also of its own making…
Britain could have led the world in fibre broadband. Instead, hostility to nationalised industries and blind faith in the market shut development down – and are still holding back the country’s productive forces…
The vote to leave the EU has induced a frenzy of pessimistic media forecasts about the future of investment and productive activity in Britain.
Data from the Office for National Statistics published in October show the number of Romanians and Bulgarians resident in Britain soared by 79 per cent in the previous two years.
London has the severest poverty in Britain, a new study shows.
Official data show 72,000 children were in care in England at the end of March, up 3 per cent on the previous year.
There’s only one way to avoid financial crashes: break the power of finance capitalism…
The spectacle of a British prime minister scuttling back and forth to Brussels displaying a desperate desire for a Brexit deal with the EU, is a betrayal of the 2016 referendum vote. We don’t want a deal, we want out.
Over 2000 Unite bus workers in 11 depots took strike action on Thursday 19 October over pay, paralysing local bus networks in the North West.
16 October 2017
Carillion, a British company running construction and facilities management services across the globe, posted a £1.5 billion loss in the first half of 2017. This has been followed by a retreat from outsourced and private contracting across the Middle East, North America and Britain.
