A short twelve months ago NHS workers and their unions were deep in preparation for what everyone knew was going to be a major battle on that most central of issues, pay and conditions.
The Association of School and College Leaders and the National Association of Head Teachers have called for Ofsted inspections to be paused immediately.
Britain’s only train factory able to design, engineer, build and test new trains, the Alstom plant at Litchurch Lane, Derby, is once again at risk, with no confirmed workload beyond next March.
Free speech is under threat – and in fighting for it workers can’t allow themselves to be sidelined by divisive laws and policies…
Floods are an ever-present risk in Britain. While they’re never good news, their impact can be managed and lessened. But not if government continues to fail to act…
After decades of developments in computing laboratories, artificial intelligence has broken through into the mainstream. Is this good news or bad?
With the transition from traditional sources of energy to all-electric, Britain’s security of supply is in question as never before. And with it, the issue of national self-reliance…
Turn on the news or read the newspaper and you hear “skills shortage”, and “shortage occupation list” for legal migration. But why is there a skills shortage and what is the national plan for addressing it?
Asset management companies live off the wealth created by others. They buy not to produce things of use, but to profit from squeezing the assets or selling them on…
Electricity is vital for modern life, whatever contribution from other renewable energy sources, nuclear power will continue to be an effective way to provide it for the foreseeable future…
We live in a material world in more senses than one. In fact, our modern world depends as much on sand and rock as it does on technology…
Once again, the US is seeking to make even greater use of its bases in Britain. And once again, opposition is building…
Workers have made remarkable progress in the past year in asserting the interests of the class. Yet in 2024 we need to do more.
NHS hospital consultants have secured an offer from the government in their fight for pay. Consultants’ pay had been cut, in real terms, by 35 per cent since 2008-09. Meanwhile, junior doctors' strikes continue
The first special Congress of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) for over 40 years took place in early December. It considered how trade unions should respond to legal attempts to restrict their activity.
Ninety-three per cent of the 51,245 nurses who have joined the NHS in the past four years have been recruited from overseas.
On 16 January 2024 the eligibility of overseas voters in UK elections will change dramatically – allowing those who don’t live in Britain to influence what happens here.
