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Manchester: flats, flats, flats
Manchester is now top of the table for growth in house prices, having increased by 8.8 per cent in the year ending February.
Housing isn't working
Across large parts of Britain houses and flats are not even being built to be homes – just investments…
For an undivided Britain
Internal devolution divides the people of Britain. Like membership of the European Union it will poison our future unless we act. The current undemocratic engineering going on in Manchester shows why it needs to be fought…
Gagged and bound: the fine print of a casual contract
A worker under EU and UK employment law has limited if very few employment rights compared with an employee who has contractual and statutory rights.
Caught in the casual trap
Self-employment was a nice wheeze to falsify the real state of full-time employment. But it’s spiralled out of control and created a £3.5+ billion black hole in Treasury planning. But it’s workers who suffer the most…
US heightens tensions over Korea
25 April 2017
With the US ramping up tension with North Korea, it’s as well to remember that the US has form in Korea.
End in sight for live animal export to EU abattoirs
25 April 2017
In another Brexit opportunity, people are realising that Britain could finally ban or restrict the export of live animals for slaughter after we leave the EU.
Take control, say skippers
Fishermen are overwhelmingly in favour of Britain taking complete control of its inshore and international waters as it leaves the EU, according to a new survey.
Scotland: Unity concert scheduled
A Concert for Unity in Glasgow is set to help boost the renewed campaign to finally defeat separatism
Huge rise in student loan rate
A sharp increase in inflation means millions of students and former students will see a rise in interest rates on tuition and maintenance loans this year.