Brexiteers commemorate Peterloo
Protesters marked the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre with a marchin Manchester on 19 October calling for democracy to be upheld and the EU referendum result implemented.
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Holiday pay: Never mind the guarantee
More than a million workers in Britain do not receive any of the holiday pay they are guaranteed by law
Local government: Liverpool in crisis
Liverpool City Council is facing its worst financial crisis since the Second World War, says its mayor.
Housing: New starts down
House building across England has fallen to the slowest quarterly rate for three years.
It's not a deal. It's a trap. Reject it.
19 October 2019
The prime minister says “Let’s get Brexit done” but the deal he is bringing before Parliament is not Brexit.
Rail nationalisation ruled out
The government is to publish a White Paper to implement the findings of the review of the rail industry led by Keith Williams – ruling out further public ownership.
Top uni salaries soar while debts grow
With universities short of money, more than 4,400 senior staff were paid over £100,000 a year in 2017-8, up more than 10 per cent on the previous year’s tally.
Independence and trade
What’s so good about free trade agreements? They make the rich richer, workers poorer, and they rob countries of the ability to plan…
Made in Britain?
It’s a funny old world when you can look at a 100 per cent British wool men’s suit in Marks and Spencer and discover that it has been manufactured in Cambodia.
Future growth for Britain
3 October 2019
A new study from a French bank predicts a science and technology boom in Brtain over the next two decades. Unlike many reports into Brexit, it looks at the long term and predicts a positive future.
Cuts in school funding are not being reversed
More than 80 per cent of state schools in England will have less funding per pupil in real terms in 2020 than in 2015, according to new analysis.
Swingeing cuts to youth services revealed
25 September 2019
New analysis shows that councils’ spending on youth services in England has been reduced by 69 per cent in a decade.