In recent years, UK academia has become increasingly hooked on a steady supply of grants from the European Union. But even without Brexit that tap could never run indefinitely. Time to set our own priorities…
While Britain’s workers cherish their National Health Service, the locally delivered and essential social services that support NHS provision are in comparison rather unloved…
During the last two centuries, finance capital has progressively become remote from and hostile to the real economy…
Globalisation is really about keeping capital accumulation hidden from scrutiny…
The future of large swathes of home care provision for elderly and disabled people hung in the balance in December as major provider fought to stay solvent.
University researchers, no longer public servants but workers in a global business world, are everywhere under the triple cosh to get research grants, demonstrate “impact” and write papers for research journals.
Poverty used to be synonymous with unemployment. Of course, there have always been poverty wages.
Theresa May’s Withdrawal Treaty would require Britain to comply with EU defence directives and therefore with the European Court of Justice, which would supervise the treaty’s implementation.
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.
10 December: London ambulance staff, members of Unison, present a petition to the Department of Health and Social Care calling for a lowering of the retirement age from 67 to 60 – the age at which other emergency services staff retire.
