General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
No turning the clock back to a nuclear age
With Jeremy Hunt’s latest Budget dusting off ideas about using nuclear energy to meet our environmental commitments, RICHARD LEONARD MSP warns that atomic ‘solutions’ aren’t all they’re cracked up to be

IN POLITICS we invariably have to fight the same old battles over and over again.
So, to hear the Chancellor in his spring Budget declaring that “increasing nuclear capacity is vital to meet our net zero obligations” should not come as a complete surprise.
After all, this is word for word what the resurgent nuclear lobby has been spinning for some time.
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