9 November 2020
A report from the Institute of Government points out the dangers of devolution exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rolls-Royce workers at in Lancashire are to strike for three weeks in November against the company’s plan to move production offshore.
There are now six months to blunt the axe of those who plan to break up Britain. But encouragingly, those who are pushing for fragmentation are increasingly seeking to tear each other apart too…
With nationalisation the only sensible option for rail, the government is moving swiftly to avoid doing it. Instead, it is looking to turn the industry upside down, with huge implications for jobs, pay, conditions and services…
In a world where much commerce is conducted digitally and cash use is falling, the central banks are stuck in the past, supplying notes and coins while credit is controlled by the private retail banks. But that could soon change…
Those who advocate a free trade deal with the US claiming that it will lower food prices are putting the cart before the horse. We don’t need free trade – we need a strategy for food production, and its distribution…
Socialist Cuba continues to demonstrate the inherent strength of its society through its capacity to bring a rise in Covid-19 infections under control – while continuing to innovate and resist the attacks on it from the US…
A trenchant analysis indicts the abdication of state responsibility and the persistent belief in the power of markets to fix the current financial mess…
Instead of looking abroad, Rolls-Royce would do well to follow the example of another local company, Hope Technology.
Wherever you look in the world, you will see the green shoots of the future. And wherever you see them, you will see a working class – thinking, organising, acting.
Britain’s normally pro-EU academic establishment is becoming edgy as it absorbs the implications of the EU’s price tag for joining its multibillion-euro Horizon Europe research programme.
The award of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of CRISP-R gene editing technology recognition of the importance of the field – and an implicit rebuke to the European Court of Justice.
