23 January 2020
Fishing for Leave has set out the perfect strategy for dealing with the EU’s “self-entitled and belligerent demand to continue its fleet’s unhindered exploitation of British waters”.
22 January 2020
Political has-beens have been wheeled out to pontificate on why Britain needs regionalism. It doesn’t.
10 January 2020
As the rail industry waits for the publication of the Williams Review, the current franchise system continues to collapse under the weight of its many contradictions.
10 January 2020
This week British rail fares rose up to 2.7 per cent while German national rail company Deutsche Bahn made its tickets 10 per cent cheaper for long-distance traffic.
10 January 2020
Maritime and transport union RMT demonstrated outside the Welsh Parliament this week on a dark, cold and wet evening as part of its campaign for the future of British seafaring.
Amazon’s London HQ in Shoreditch was the target of a demonstration on Monday 2 December organised by GMB.
Despite the increase in their number of MPs, the Scottish National Party still does not command the support needed to win the second Scottish independence referendum it craves.
Transport union RMT’s campaign to keep guards on trains continues to grind on, with another employer capitulating in the face of determined and resolute industrial action.
Fresh concerns are being expressed over the government’s free schools programme. To date, 27 free schools have been forced to close or change management, according to a new analysis.
With journalistic standards under attack , a Bristol newspaper took a stand in December against attacks on the integrity of one of its reporters.
Unions at the shut Orb steelworks in Newport, Wales, have persuaded Tata that there is a stronger case for new companies to take over if the plant is properly maintained over the coming period.
9 December 2019
The housing crisis sweeping Britain shows no sign of abating. Its effects are to be found all over the country, not least in the much-vaunted “Northern powerhouse” of Manchester.
3 December 2019
Despite the rain, pickets were out in force yesterday for the Monday morning picket at the University of Glasgow.
25 November 2019
Classes at universities across Britain and Northern Ireland are being disrupted as staff begin an eight-day strike today. The action is due to last from 25 November until 4 December.
Unison, GMB and Unite members have stopped plans by a major acute NHS hospital in Berkshire and Surrey to transfer more than a thousand of its staff out of NHS employment.
19 November 2019
The campaign group Fishing for Leave has issued a new press release about the effect of the proposed “deal” for leaving the EU on UK fishing, and the benefits of a clean break.
19 November 2019
The Unite HQ in Glasgow was the setting for a trade union meeting involving current and former officials of the RMT union and others that heard from Anthony Coughlan, a veteran of decades of struggle against the EU in Ireland.
18 November 2019
While RMT negotiators inch towards a final settlement of the long running dispute in Merseyrail, the dispute in South Western Railway has escalated dramatically – and a new front has opened up in West Midlands Trains.
18 November 2019
The High Court has handed down an injunction against the postal workers’ strike, due to begin in December after an overwhelming majority of members voted for it.
1 November 2019
The planned official Brexit rally in Parliament Square in London on 31 October did not go ahead. Instead, hundreds of demonstrators arrived to stand opposite parliament to make their feelings felt.
A new study suggests that Britain will achieve a science and technology boom over the next two decades.
23 October 2019
Protesters marked the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre with a marchin Manchester on 19 October calling for democracy to be upheld and the EU referendum result implemented.
More than a million workers in Britain do not receive any of the holiday pay they are guaranteed by law
Liverpool City Council is facing its worst financial crisis since the Second World War, says its mayor.
House building across England has fallen to the slowest quarterly rate for three years.
The government is to publish a White Paper to implement the findings of the review of the rail industry led by Keith Williams – ruling out further public ownership.
With universities short of money, more than 4,400 senior staff were paid over £100,000 a year in 2017-8, up more than 10 per cent on the previous year’s tally.
3 October 2019
A new study from a French bank predicts a science and technology boom in Brtain over the next two decades. Unlike many reports into Brexit, it looks at the long term and predicts a positive future.
More than 80 per cent of state schools in England will have less funding per pupil in real terms in 2020 than in 2015, according to new analysis.
