Time to be ‘more German’?
Thursday, August 20th, 2020
In the UK, the Chancellor is refusing to extend the furlough scheme despite the prospect of mass job losses. But in Germany, the ‘Kurzarbeit’ social insurance s...
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The ‘fight of our lives’
Monday, August 17th, 2020
With the tsunami of job losses we predicted when Rishi Sunak announced, the phasing-out of the furlough scheme now coming to pass, the government’s reversion to...
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A sightseer in Beirut
Friday, August 14th, 2020
In the morning the vast inspiring Al Amin Mosque. Heads covered feet bare. Under the chandeliers our whispered voices echoes of centuries.
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'Make your voice heard in the post-pandemic world'
Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
CPHVA: Health visitors, school nurses and community teams should be represented on NHS trusts and boards
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How the govt fails to take women seriously
Friday, August 7th, 2020
A joint statement earlier this week (August 5) by the TUC, Centenary Action Group, the Fawcett Society, Women’s Aid and trade unions representing parliamentary ...
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‘Workers are holding their breath’
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Picking up last weekend’s press, I almost choked on my morning tea when I read that ‘Red Wall Tories’ were working to save UK aerospace. This was news to me – a...
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Contagion
Friday, July 24th, 2020
At our peril we’d ignored the periphery Discovered we aren’t in charge of our destiny.
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A red-button blockbuster
Friday, July 24th, 2020
The author has taken the events of 1913-17 described in his earlier Radical Aristocrats: London Busworkers from the 1880s to the 1980s (Lawrence and Wishart, 19...
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‘Fighting back against tyranny’
Monday, July 20th, 2020
Covid-19 has put food and agriculture workers at the heart of a national and international fight and highlighted all that’s wrong with the food system — dysfunc...
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Here’s why you should fix the apprenticeship levy, Chancellor
Thursday, July 16th, 2020
Vast sums of cash are standing idle in the Treasury, with employers seeing it as a tax, unable to access it to fund recognised apprenticeships for either their ...
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'We must demand better'
Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
The hospitality industry is storing up big problems for the future
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'Instead of a budget we have a slogan'
Wednesday, July 8th, 2020
Unite political department's Joy Johnson's take on chancellor's statement
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‘Was that it’?
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
Our ‘Build Back Better’ club acquired an application from a new aspiring member this week: welcome, Prime Minister. I hope that you will take some time to famil...
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‘PM, do not abandon working people now in their hour of need’
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
There’s rising panic being felt in homes across the country right now. The last 24 hours have seen a jobs bloodbath with over 10,000 lost.
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It’s the media stupid!
Friday, June 26th, 2020
Nationals in particular have swung even harder against Labour and the unions. Thatcher, aided by Murdoch and the others right wing owners changed the climate in...
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It’s the media stupid!
Thursday, June 25th, 2020
The difference between Corbyn and his predecessors was that the general public didn’t know much about him, other than what they were told about him by the media...
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Not just for Covid
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Each year the demand for these meals has grown. We have seen at first hand the effect of poverty, and the difficulty and sadness of parents unable to feed their...
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Johnson unlikely to ‘get it done’ by year’s end
Monday, June 22nd, 2020
Lighthizer said the timelines established in the 2015 Trade Promotion Authority law make it “nearly impossible” for Congress to consider a US-UK trade deal this...
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