London Tube cleaners are fighting against outsourcing and deterioration in their pay and working conditions. Their union, RMT, is campaigning for an end to all TfL outsourcing.

Despite earlier promises, it looks like the Labour government no longer plans to double the number of medical school places by 2032.

Landlords could be forced to install either a heat pump or solar panels under Miliband’s Warm Homes Plan. Both professionals and unions have criticised the move as unrealistic.

A coroner has called for government action after the death of a baby boy. Non-therapeutic male circumcision is unregulated in Britain – and earlier deaths produced no changes.

Two recent cases highlight continuing harassment and discrimination faced by nurses who refuse to accept the imposition of males claiming to be female.

Health care assistants are in grading disputes across the country. Cash-strapped NHS trusts are not always keen to settle, leading to some strikes.

A Birmingham hospital trust has been forced to scrap a poorly regulated international fellowship programme. The scheme recruited doctors from Pakistan, apparently so they could return there after training, but most did not.

Broadcaster Alice Roberts presents a view of the interaction between politics and religion in the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. It also provides an interesting perspective on the subsequent history of Europe up to the present day.

Top of the government’s excuses for the dire state of the economy is, predictably, Brexit. But as Starmer’s creeping up to the EU continues, Brexit is being slowly stolen.