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.
Pro-separatism in the Scottish TUC seems to have led it to conclude that increased public spending by Westminster is against the interest of workers…
Tanker drivers based at Stanlow oil refinery in Cheshire have overwhelmingly voted for strike action against redundancies.
24 October 2020
Rolls-Royce workers at Barnoldswick in Lancashire are fighting to keep their jobs in Britain. They have voted overwhelmingly for action against the company’s plan to move production offshore.
24 October 2020
Despite Britain's formidable base of scientific and engineering knowledge, development of nuclear power has stalled. Britain needs to change that to secure future energy supplies.
Health services have relied on imported workers for too long. It is unethical and in the long term unproductive.
Cuba has begun trials of a coronavirus vaccine – the first vaccine against the virus in Latin America to achieve certification by the World Health Organization.
Britain’s nuclear power industry had its origins in outstanding research – and led to the first atomic electricity station in the capitalist world…
The building of HS2 is finally moving from preparatory work to full-scale construction works...
The NHS is preparing for winter and a predicted second wave of Covid-19 infections. The service must also look at how it has dealt with patients referred for investigations and treatment for other conditions.
17 October 2020
If there are still those who have not accepted the necessity of Britain’s departure from the European Union, the behaviour of EU negotiators provides a compelling justification.
