Electricity prices: driven by dogma
28 August 2025
Electricity prices are high and liable to further increase. The regulator isn’t tackling the government policy behind this.
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Save ceramics – the Potter’s Pledge
28 August 2025
The GMB trade union has launched a campaign to save what is left of the British ceramics industry, hit hard by rising energy costs. But it is a vital sector supplying other industries.
Scottish Library censorship
28 August 2025
A book, The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, has been banned from an exhibition at the National Library of Scotland, despite oringinally being selcted to be part of it.
Threat to allotments is real
28 August 2025
Planning changes have made it easier for councils to sell off allotments, prompting criticism. The threat is real, despite government assurances.
Bioethanol: largest plant closes
28 August 2025
The government’s trade deal with the US has led to the closure of Britain’s largest bioethanol plant on Humberside. Trade unions and companies in the industry have criticised the closure.
Time to talk about immigration
According to the most recent figures from the Office of National Statistics, the population of England and Wales rose by 706,881 in a year, to 61.8 million by June 2024.
Organise! Educate! Control!
When workers discuss the state Britain is in, the question that follows inevitably is what can be done about it? It’s a tough question, one not yet answered.
The future for water: as clear as muck
A new government-commissioned report into the water industry is good (in parts) at identifying glaring problems. But its proposals go nowhere near what is needed, and risk fragmenting the industry even further…
Is the tide turning on net zero?
After years of bluster and unrealistic charges, not to speak of soaring energy costs for consumers, influential voices are questioning the logic of the reckless obsession with the net zero dogma…
Welfare and work
Capitalists have never wanted to pay workers who through illness – or because there is no work for them – are unable to work. The priority, though, is not better benefits. It is work for all who can…
Another plan? The NHS needs a rebuild
Workers want shorter waiting lists for NHS treatment, and to be able to see a real doctor in a reasonable timeframe. That’s a long way off…
Britain in the red
Borrowing is on the rise, and debt interest is a big part of government expenditure…