Where's the capacity?
East-West Rail is a project currently renewing and rebuilding a largely disused rail line between Oxford and Cambridge.
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More delay, more cost
To fit with the government’s scaled-down plans the station at Old Oak Common will have to be completely redesigned with more platforms to act as a terminus rather than a through station as originally planned
Homeless in Manchester
Manchester is an example of a supposedly booming city where housing problems are acute…
Social care - too costly not to act
Can Britain afford not to transform social care? It’s up to workers everywhere to demand change and not be fobbed off with more delay…
The Grenfell Tower Fire - and accountability
The public inquiry set up soon after the Grenfell Tower Fire completed its hearings last November and is expected to publish its final report in 2024. There’s much to learn already…
End the long war in Ukraine!
The British government is clear: it wants the war in Ukraine to go on and on, and it will seek to sabotage anything and anyone that works for peace…
Nuclear power? Yes, please!
Reluctant to invest in infrastructure, successive governments have failed to keep in step with public support for nuclear – and failed, too, to provide the clean electricity that nuclear can deliver…
Can workers control Britain?
To raise the question of taking control runs counter to the world of politicians’ competing claims to act on our behalf…
1217: The Charter of the Forest [print version]
A little-known event in medieval times is still of interest today – it tells us how people can exercise their power…
Union Busting: Unite takes fight to Paris
Unite the union has taken its fight to end union busting to the doorstep of the French company Bouygues, whose offices are based in Paris
Borrowing: Britain's ballooning debt
The government has been borrowing at a huge rate – something that tends not to be reported in general news, appearing rather in the relative backwaters of newspaper business sections.
Blow to renewables policy [print version]
The government’s approach to future energy supply depends heavily on wind power, dedicated as it is to net zero aims. But it’s as much off course with wind as it is with nuclear energy.