ALEX HALL interviews PAUL HOLDEN, whose bombshell book uses leaked documents to expose how the Starmer faction used systematic dishonesty to seize power and reopen the door to the corrupting ecosystem of corporate lobbying and sleaze
100 years ago – when the Braunston canal families went on strike
NICK MATTHEWS looks back to the historic 14-week dispute which was to form a significant early test for the then-recently formed Transport and General Workers Union

THE canal at Braunston, where the Grand Union Canal and the Oxford Canal meet, is the busiest place anywhere on the British canal network.
It is a splendid rural setting, with the boats of Braunston marina and in the pretty village of Braunston up on the hill where All Saints Church, otherwise known as the “Cathedral of the Canals,” has overlooked the village and the villagers for over 10 centuries and the canals and the boat people for over 300 years.
The Canals and River Trust is based in the old “Stop House” — the old building that was used to collect tolls from passing freight boats.
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