18 January 2019
Shortly after the overwhelming defeat of the government's proposed deal with the European Union on the evening of 14 January, three senior ministers held a conference call with ten representatives of big business…
15 January 2019
The government's NHS Long Term Plan for England came out on 7 January. It includes significant spending and opportunities to improve the service. But there are also critical weaknesses for NHS workers to deal with.
13 January 2019
The maintenance backlog for council-owned road bridges in Britain increased by a third in the past year, with billions needed to bring all structures up to standard.
13 January 2019
The loss of jobs in the car industry is blamed on Brexit; that’s not the case. To think that the EU or May’s deal is any answer will disarm the fight to maintain and build the industry.
9 January 2019
The number of homeless people dying on the streets or in temporary accommodation has surged 24 per cent in just five years.
6 January 2019
People smuggling across the Channel is increasing. Tiny dinghies crossing busy shipping put lives at risk. It’s lucrative – crime bosses saying that it is more profitable than smuggling drugs.
6 January 2019
Long the “Cinderella” of transport services, local bus services, especially in rural areas, are seeing deep and damaging cuts.
Members of several unions gathered at the Scottish Parliament on 12 December to protest against that day’s annual budget announcement from the minority SNP administration.
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.
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.
10 December 2018
In echoes of May’s Brexit “negotiations”, a proposed Swiss agreement over free movement from the EU is facing likely defeat.
9 December 2018
Bus drivers in two areas of northern England are striking over pay.
6 December 2018
The horticultural industry is becoming clear about what is needed to secure the sector’s future post-Brexit. Growing more in Britain would offer economic gains and increase biosecurity according to a recent report.
27 November 2018
Despite the pouring rain, around 150 people last weekend heard speaker after speaker call for an end to the deregulated and de-facto monopoly of Bristol’s buses under private company First Bus.
26 November 2018
Three separate publications in November have highlighted the gowing crisis in social care.
26 November 2018
The title of a meeting organised by Halifax trades council tapped into the public shock at the betrayal being enacted before our eyes.
26 November 2018
Greenwich teachers have effectively made their part of London a no-go area for the further academisation of its schools, led by the National Education Union at The John Roan School.
22 November 2018
The EU is suddenly facing two financial crises simultaneously, in Greece and Italy, one impacting on the other.
22 November 2018
The government may have announced the end of “austerity” – but Birmingham City Council must find £86 million in savings in the next four years.
22 November 2018
The future of large swathes of home care provision for elderly and disabled people hangs in the balance as a major provider seeks to stay solvent.
8 November 2018
Services such as meals on wheels are being hacked by relentlessly as government cuts bite.
6 November 2018
Attempts to undermine Brexit abound. One of the more insidious strands is the growing panic-mongering evident in some quarters.
30 October 2018
Fishing for Leave has published a plan to make the most of Brexit, but it against letting the EU keep control over our fishing.
29 October 2018
Boeing's first European manufacturing facility has opened in Sheffield. Despite the doom-mongers, substantial investment in Britain continues.
Thousands of women workers, including cleaners, carers, learning support staff, and those in nurseries and administration walked out on 23 October on a two-day strike.
Britain needs to increase the number of student doctors, says the president-elect of the Royal College of Physicians.
