The land of 100,000 potholes
4 August 2017
Britain’s infrastructure is crumbling – literally. As council budgets get ever tighter, more than 100,000 potholes have been found on the country’s roads.
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Whisky set to benefit from the Brexit spirit
4 August 2017
The government wants to reduce the cost of exporting whisky after Brexit, with ministers keen to open up new markets around the world for the drink.
Real earnings slump for Londoners
10 July 2017
A survey of average earnings across London’s 32 boroughs by the GMB union shows London in a very different light from the usual picture of the capital as a thriving business centre.
Gig companies go on the attack
10 July 2017
Even as the Taylor review called on Monday (10 July) for some kind of controls on casualisation, proponents of the “gig” economy are mounting further ideological challenges define what a worker is by their own criteria.
Honour and dishonour at Woolwich ferry
10 July 2017
It is honourable that a new Woolwich ferries will be named after Ben Woollacott, the 19-year-old deckhand killed in a mooring accident in 2011 – but other factors associated with the new ferry are less so.
TUC pay campaign: to be or not to be?
7 July 2017
First they will, then they won’t. TUC indecision over its “Britain needs a pay rise” campaign is fast becoming a tradition.
Defeat for government over pension scheme
7 July 2017
Government guidance issued in September 2016 to force Local Government Pension Scheme investments to meet government policies has been thrown out by the High Court.
1833 - 1838: The Tolpuddle Martyrs
7 July 2017
The Tolpuddle Martyrs were transported for resisting starvation wages and forming a trade union. The annual festival commemorating them – absent for two years because of Covid-19 – was held again this July in Tolpuddle, Dorset.
Don't give way, make headway
History shows that when we rely slavishly on legislation our aspirations for advance have subsided, along with our organisation…
Transport Police break up goes ahead
29 June 2017
The SNP has pressed on with plans to break up British Transport Police despite widespread opposition from rail unions to police chiefs. This attempt to reinforce separatism went ahead despite union warnings that it would damage and not protect policing in Scotland.
Take responsibility against terrorism
Al Qa’ida and its offshoot Islamic State copy the worst aspects of US interventions, the murders, the torture, the rapes. There is no appeasing them.
Five foundations for independence
Britain will need strength, clarity and obduracy if it is to progress towards independence over the next two years.