Millions of adults and children in England face longer waits for mental health care as NHS trusts prepare another round of service closures and job cuts. Ministers talk about expanding access, but the workers, funding and services needed to provide…
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An irreplaceable collection of 318 fossils has left Britain after publicly funded museums said they couldn’t afford it. The sale was legal. That’s precisely the problem. One of the most important collections of Jurassic fossils ever assembled in Britain has…
The US embassy in London is offering money for British projects that promote Washington’s political priorities. Behind the respectable language of “public diplomacy” lies a familiar imperial practice: using money and institutional influence to make the interests of the US…
Palantir has secured hundreds of millions of pounds in British state contracts while paying a fraction of the headline corporation tax rate. Its tax arrangements show how monopoly capital turns public dependence into private accumulation. Palantir paid just £2.1m in…
Britain could face its worst harvest on record after months of drought and extreme heat devastated crops across England and Wales. Farmers are warning that working people will be made to pay through higher prices and smaller portions in supermarkets….
Black and Asian radiographers are facing growing racist abuse from patients, including being called “monkeys” and “dirty foreigners” and being refused on the basis of their skin colour. A survey of 381 members of the Society of Radiographers found a…
Half of England and the whole of Wales are now officially in drought, after extreme heat and almost nonexistent rainfall left rivers shrinking, crops under threat and vast areas of the country scorched brown. England received just 7 percent of…
The chief executive of Thames Water has claimed that targets for reducing leaks and pollution are “not realistic”, after decades in which private owners and lenders drained billions from the company while its infrastructure deteriorated. Chris Weston told the BBC…
Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems have raised their profit forecasts as governments across the capitalist world prepare to pour even more public money into weapons, surveillance systems and nuclear submarines. Rolls-Royce now expects to make an underlying operating profit of between…
The British government is preparing to use AI-powered facial analysis at the border, despite warnings that the technology is racially biased and could condemn refugee children to detention, removal and unsafe accommodation alongside adults. Under the plans, facial age-estimation software…