University researchers, no longer public servants but workers in a global business world, are everywhere under the triple cosh to get research grants, demonstrate “impact” and write papers for research journals.
Poverty used to be synonymous with unemployment. Of course, there have always been poverty wages.
Theresa May’s Withdrawal Treaty would require Britain to comply with EU defence directives and therefore with the European Court of Justice, which would supervise the treaty’s implementation.
The horticultural industry is becoming clear about what is needed to secure the sector’s future post-Brexit. Brexit is welcomed as a unique opportunity to increase British plant production.
The BBC reports that London’s councils have told the government they need an extra £526 million in funding to balance the books.
Members of rail union RMT in the north of England have now taken their 40th day of strike action.
10 December: London ambulance staff, members of Unison, present a petition to the Department of Health and Social Care calling for a lowering of the retirement age from 67 to 60 – the age at which other emergency services staff retire.
Springburn, in north west Glasgow, once the proud heart of the world locomotive industry, is threatened with closure.
The Institute for Government think tank has published a report warning that handing so much government business to only a few large strategic suppliers is a risky strategy.
Public finance body Cipfa has reported that funding for Britain’s libraries fell by £30 million in 2017/18, with a loss of 712 full-time staff.
We must leave the EU on 29 March 2019. It’s what Britain voted for in June 2016 and that decision must be carried out.
11 December 2018
If May is allowed to remain in office, there will be no Brexit – just interminable pretend negotiations. She has to go.
