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.
Two hundred years ago, 18 people were killed and hundreds injured taking part in a peaceful rally calling for the reform of a corrupt parliament…
Joseph Stiglitz has won a Nobel Prize for Economics and established himself as a powerful critic of capitalism – but he still seems wedded to it…
In 2010, a huge new oilfield was discovered in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, west of Stavanger.
Yes, it’s possible to produce energy without using nuclear power or fossil fuels. But at the moment the price tag for that will be a reversion to pre-industrial levels of production and consumption. No central heating, anyone?
Beset by failure in running Scotland, at the SNP party conference in October leader Nicola Sturgeon was forced to bring forward her plan to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence in 2020…
The chaos in bus services looks set to continue with the government rejecting key recommendations in a detailed Transport Committee report. ‘Regulated competition’ – the EU’s old refrain – is still being imposed…
Brexit is about far more than trade and who makes our laws. It is also about who we owe loyalty to, who controls our defence and to whom our military owe allegiance. Inside the EU, that allegiance is above all to the EU…
Despite the chaos in Parliament, fundamentally nothing has changed. We still haven’t left, and the opposition has become ever more hysterical – and coldly calculating…
A new study suggests that Britain will achieve a science and technology boom over the next two decades.
23 October 2019
Brexit undecided. All options are in the air. But for the people of Britain, those who live and work here, there is only one that works – no deal.
