Back to basics in Brighton
September sees an increased focus on Britain’s trade unions as the TUC holds its annual meeting in Brighton.
Workers September/October 2026
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A united Britain for progress
The ruling class drive to dissolve and divide Britain is a decades-long, never-ending enterprise. And yet they have not succeeded. It’s time for workers to push back.
Independence, immigration and community
From an unequal agreement with the EU on youth mobility to low thresholds for wages in shortage occupations, governments are relentlessly encouraging more immigration to Britain. That is bad for the working class…
Cold winds are blowing through Britain’s research
Another government, another change in the way research is funded. The Burnham regime has already seen the dismantling of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology…
Constant change
In Britain, uniquely, responsibility for scientific research has shuffled regularly between a variety of ministries, and the Cabinet Office.
This new defence plan is not what Britain needs
The Defence Investment Plan was Keir Starmer’s parting gift to his successor. And like everything Starmer did, it is part ineffective, part downright dangerous…
Brexit 10 years on: the fight for independence
A decade after the epic vote to leave the European Union, the fight for independence continues - in the face of continuing attempts by government and the establishment to ignore or overturn the referendum...
What has the EU ever done for us?
Europe is paying higher energy prices than the US or Canada. Energy use in Britain has fallen, and British businesses pay twice as much as their French counterparts.
Climate change and net zero policy
Can Britain move away from fossil fuels and adapt to climate change? Yes, to a degree, and these would be good aims. But government net zero policy targets won’t help…
Maternity care in the NHS must change
The standard of maternity care remains a dire concern. The new prime minister sees solutions in devolution but the evidence points to problems in maternity care across Britain regardless of funding models…
The answer is nuclear
Look closely at the environmental and other costs of renewable energy technologies, and they can’t hold a candle to nuclear power…
Slavery and industrial revolution
Revolutions are made from within countries, not imposed from without. That goes for Britain’s industrial revolution, too…
Museum staff in walkouts
Workers have not been lying down during the summer heat. Across the country they have been taking action against employers where working conditions are not good enough.
Bus drivers act over conditioins
Over 1,500 Arriva North London bus drivers took strike action during August over hot weather working.
Biomedical workers' pay fight
Hundreds of Unite members at a number of biomedical establishments have been on strike after derisory pay offers.
Migration: Residents protest
Villagers at Barnham in Suffolk and at Piddington in Oxfordshire are defending the tranquillity of their tiny communities against the mass settlement of migrants in their midst...
Car Industry: Good news for Sunderlans
Unite has welcomed Nissan’s plans for joint car production with China’s part state-owned Chery at its Sunderland plant.
Mergers: Workers paying the price
Morrisons, the supermarket company, was bought by US private equity company Clayton Dubilier & Rice in 2021 in a deal that saddled Morrisons with £6.6 billion of debt.