29 January 2019
Now that the government has said EU law will stop one of the key planks in Usdaw’s industrial strategy for retail, the Remain-supporting union has fallen uncharacteristically silent.
28 January 2019
There can be little doubt who is behind the flagrant interference in the affairs of a sovereign nation.
28 January 2019
An independent report from KPMG published last week found that the delayed Crossrail project is eating up cash at the rate of £30 million a week.
20 January 2019
New figures show that almost 9 in 10 English councils overspent on children’s social care in the last financial year, reflecting growing numbers of children being placed into the system.
18 January 2019
Shortly after the overwhelming defeat of the government's proposed deal with the European Union on the evening of 14 January, three senior ministers held a conference call with ten representatives of big business…
13 January 2019
As the delayed vote on Theresa May’s “withdrawal” agreement approaches, it has become increasingly obvious that parliament is planning a coup.
13 January 2019
The maintenance backlog for council-owned road bridges in Britain increased by a third in the past year, with billions needed to bring all structures up to standard.
13 January 2019
The loss of jobs in the car industry is blamed on Brexit; that’s not the case. To think that the EU or May’s deal is any answer will disarm the fight to maintain and build the industry.
9 January 2019
The number of homeless people dying on the streets or in temporary accommodation has surged 24 per cent in just five years.
6 January 2019
Long the “Cinderella” of transport services, local bus services, especially in rural areas, are seeing deep and damaging cuts.
While diverting our attention with a pretence of negotiating withdrawal from the EU, the government has been signing Britain up to the developing EU army – and paying a huge chunk of the cost…
The TUC has been running its own special Project Fear campaign, largely unnoticed – though given its recent performance, that’s not surprising.
Members of several unions gathered at the Scottish Parliament on 12 December to protest against that day’s annual budget announcement from the minority SNP administration.
At a time when many in the country are becoming alive to the possibilities of control in the context of Britain and the European Union, collective control of pay is at a low point. That has got to change…
With cold weather on the way, the European Court of Justice has seen fit to meddle in the power market…
In animal welfare, as in so much, the EU likes to pose as an authority and protector of standards. The record tells us otherwise…
20 December 2018
This well-argued book from Professor Dani Rodrik examines the effects of globalisation and criticises the economic justfication for it.
20 December 2018
In this book Professor Philip Whyman makes the case for rebuilding Britain as an advanced industrial economy by rejecting options that tie the government to EU control.
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…
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.
Springburn, in north west Glasgow, once the proud heart of the world locomotive industry, is threatened with closure.
The Institute for Government think tank has published a report warning that handing so much government business to only a few large strategic suppliers is a risky strategy.
Public finance body Cipfa has reported that funding for Britain’s libraries fell by £30 million in 2017/18, with a loss of 712 full-time staff.
We must leave the EU on 29 March 2019. It’s what Britain voted for in June 2016 and that decision must be carried out.
11 December 2018
If May is allowed to remain in office, there will be no Brexit – just interminable pretend negotiations. She has to go.
