Charlie Gershinson investigates BP and Shell’s record profits, and its potential consequences.
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Industrial action in the UK: past and present
Print News Editor Charlie Gershinson reviews the history of industrial action in the UK and the origins of the current unprecedented wave of strikes across different sectors.
Nurses strikes: necessary or needless danger to health?
Charlie Gershinson analyses the players that serve as the impetus for the first RCN national strike since it’s inception 106 years ago.
‘Triple whammy’ of soaring prices hits harder than ever before
Pippa Bourne discusses the causes and potential implications of inflation and rising food prices.
Graduates to be hit with ‘tax rise by stealth’ on their student loans
Graduates to be hit with ‘tax rise by stealth’ on their student loans Millions of university graduates in England face higher repayments on their student loans as the government freezes the earnings threshold at which they start repaying. The universities minister, Michelle Donelan, announced on Friday 28th January that the salary threshold for undergraduate student […]
Rising Interest Rates- What does it mean?
On 1st November 2017 the monetary policy committee (MPC) of the Bank of England, Britain’s central bank, voted to raise interest rates for the first time since 2007. The committee reached an agreement to raise the official bank rate from 0.25% to 0.5% with a 7-2 vote in favour of the rate adjustment. In the […]