The number of working days lost to strikes has hit the highest level since the late 1980s. Some 3.9 million working days have been lost to industrial action in the past year, the highest annual figure since the 4.1m days lost in 1989. The figure illustrates the scale of public …
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Britain is in decline. It’s probably irreversible and doesn’t bother me for reasons I’ll scandalise you with later, but if the unions imagine they can seize this moment to grab as much cash as possible, like the last round of the Crystal Maze, they’ve made a big mistake. Their industries …
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Britain is flailing. It’s not all our fault; global shocks caused by the Ukraine war and European intransigence over Brexit have soured the economy, while the cultural madness sweeping the West continues to knock us off course. But when it comes to certain basics, we have no excuse. We face …
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Train operators have hit back at Mick Lynch’s assault on “fat cat rail bosses”, saying that profits are little more than a third of the £500 million claimed by the head of the striking rail union. Bosses claim that union figures were not based on reality. They cited figures prepared …
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