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.
While diverting our attention with a pretence of negotiating withdrawal from the EU, the government has been signing Britain up to the developing EU army – and paying a huge chunk of the cost…
The TUC has been running its own special Project Fear campaign, largely unnoticed – though given its recent performance, that’s not surprising.
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.
At a time when many in the country are becoming alive to the possibilities of control in the context of Britain and the European Union, collective control of pay is at a low point. That has got to change…
With cold weather on the way, the European Court of Justice has seen fit to meddle in the power market…
In animal welfare, as in so much, the EU likes to pose as an authority and protector of standards. The record tells us otherwise…
20 December 2018
This well-argued book from Professor Dani Rodrik examines the effects of globalisation and criticises the economic justfication for it.
