Covid-19 - Normal Service
Hardly any libraries in the whole of Britain’s higher education system maintained their usual services through the fraught 2020 autumn term.
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Now for real control
Whatever the restrictions and disruption – and these words are being written before the outcome of negotiations with the EU is clear – Britain can and must now chart its own future in the world. This is a pivotal moment.
Rolls-Royce comes back for more redundancies
4 December 2020
Aerospace workers at Barnoldswick, Lancashire, who have been striking in defence of jobs, have been further hit by further proposed job losses by employer Rolls-Royce.
HS2: Two projects in one
1 December 2020
So much of the coverage of the HS2 project has focused on passenger journey times that the true scope of the project has almost been obscured from public view.
Covid-19: Lessons from Liverpool
1 December 2020
The news that Liverpool is to enter Tier 2 when the current restrictions end this week is a challenge to the government’s default top-down, we-know-what’s-best-for-you approach to dealing with the pandemic.
Pledge to rebuild British shipbuilding
28 November 2020
The government is promising that increased defence spending will help revive British shipbuilding. People will be demanding that it does.
An agricultural call to arms
25 November 2020
A new book does more than grapple with the decline of Britain’s farming – it sets out what needs to be done.
Home-grown promise of small nuclear reactors
25 November 2020
Government funding for advanced nuclear technologies could help end Britain's reliance on Chinese and French companies for new nuclear power stations.
Sinn Fein and DUP unite over EU food threat
23 November 2020
A row over the flow of food trade between the British mainland and Northern Ireland has led the leaders of Sinn Fein and the DUP to tell the EU it would be unacceptable to disrupt food supply in the event of a No-deal Brexit.
Behind the vaccine breakthroughs
23 November 2020
The scientists involved in developing vaccines against Covid-19 coronavirus – wherever they are based – are part of a global collaboration that has achieved the near impossible in record time.
Coronavirus: workers taking control
22 November 2020
Nothing illustrates the potential of collective and people-led organisation like the response of British workers to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Terrorist murders
13 November 2020
We have said it before but must say it again: people who stab, bomb, and shoot workers in the name of religion are fascists.