The Williams–Shapps Plan for Rail – a government White Paper – has finally been published. And like too many of Britain’s trains, it arrived very late and was truly underwhelming.

Labour in Wales did not mention it in its manifesto, but now it wants to spend millions on creating yet more seats in the Senedd assembly – at public cost but without public benefit.

A hard border for medicines between Northern Ireland and Britain imposed by the EU is denies people in the province early access to a new life-saving cancer drug.

Library users in Glasgow have reacted to closure proposals from the SNP-run council with weekends of read-ins and demonstrations at the threatened sites. 

The government’s new bus strategy for England, announced on 15 March, has been met with a lukewarm response, to say the least.

Strike action by drivers at Go North West in Manchester has been solid – and well supported in the wider labour movement.

Bus drivers working for Go North West have begun an all-out strike against company plans to fire and rehire workers on worse pay and conditions.

Once more, the EU is squaring up for a fight with Switzerland over how far European law should reach. 

In the face of EU obstruction of British seafood exports, the Cornish Fish Producers Association is working to encourage more fish consumption in the home market.

The GMB union is claiming a “historic win” after the Supreme Court ruled that Uber drivers are not self-employed but are workers.

The government is to reverse the central thrust of the 2012 NHS reforms. Central planning is back on the agenda, finally.

A new analysis of the prospects for Scotland should the SNP succeed in detaching it from the rest of Britain makes grim reading for the separatists.