In a complete U-turn, the industrial consortium Liberty House has stopped demolition of the Sheerness steelworks in Kent. It now plans to renovate and re-open them by summer 2017.
30 October 2016
A “Buy British” scheme is to be launched using Brexit freedoms from EU directives to protect our woodlands from pests and diseases brought in by imported trees.
A lot of dire warnings were issued during the Referendum campaign, and before. We’ve started keeping track of what happened…
Economic journalists Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson explain why the EU is failing: because the single currency was not a progressive project and never could be.
During the reign of Henry VII, England broke from Rome and embarked on the Reformation – fundamentally changing England’s outlook and behaviour…
Workers cannot let the momentum created by the referendum result subside. The issue cannot be left to the politicians. We must enforce our will: get on, get out!
National Grid plc will pay £122 million to keep ten coal and gas power stations in reserve to ensure that Britain gets through the winter without power cuts.
The opportunity of Brexit has to be about how we determine a strategy for power generation which will serve the nation for at least the next 100 years…
We cannot care for people without planning, and we should stop robbing other nations of skilled workers…
In dispute for over a year, junior hospital doctors have had to draw back from their planned series of five-day strikes against an unsafe contract. But it’s a protracted struggle…
Asked to rule about footballers’ freedom to transfer, the EU went further and removed restrictions on EU players in national clubs. England haven’t won a tournament since…
29 October 2016
The English Reformation evolved from the need of Henry VIII to divorce. Such a relatively trivial episode in led to a process that ultimately brought the total reconstruction of political power and social attitudes in England.
