Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR - The COVID-19 crisis  is expected to wipe out 6.7 per cent of working hours globally in the second quarter of 2020 – equivalent to 195 million full-time workers.Large reductions are foreseen in the Arab States (8....

MEDIA - RT TV (ex. Russia Today) called it right that Boris Johnson was in a critical care unit while the rest of the media mob denounced their news as 'Russian Propaganda'. However, RT TV had in fact called it 'spot on'. An intensive care unit (ICU)...

COVID-19 - We visited McColls today in Mersea Road, Colchester. A young trainee was being taught to use the till with an instructor. Neither instructor nor the young lady had been provided with a mask, gloves or as they have in Lidls - a protective p...

GOVERNMENT BORROWING - Public sector net debt is forecast to rise by £125bn or 4.6% of GDP, as the government embarks on the largest spending increase since 1992, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility. In 2005 the UK “current budget defic...

TUC - The TUC has called for the basic level of universal credit to be raised to £260 per week for the duration of the COVID-19 outbreak. Publishing its report 'Fixing the safety net: Next steps in the economic response to coronavirus' toda...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - Sir Keir Rodney Starmer KCB QC has been elected as head of the Labour Party. Starmer was awarded a knighthood in 2014 for "services to law and criminal justice". Below he appears in the McLibel documentary created by...

PANDEMIC UPDATE - The unemployment rate of the United Kingdom is expected to reach 4.7 percent in 2020, following the outbreak of coronavirus and the closure of businesses due to social distancing measures. A total of 2,921 people...

EMERGENCY FOOD - The first food packages have been sent to those who were asked by the government to isolate for 12 weeks and shield themselves from coronavirus due to being particularly vulnerable. The government has dispatched 2,000 food parce...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - Almost a million people have attempted to claim Universal Credit in the last two weeks and the public are getting frustrated trying to get through to the DWP on the telephone. Normally about 100,000 might claim in a period of...

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