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MILLIONS of people feeling the strain of isolation from friends and family will have been hanging on to the Prime Minister’s words today as he set out the dates on which lockdown restrictions may be eased.
Yet bitter experience has taught us to be wary of government claims to be “following the science” — and despite having botched the lifting of two previous lockdowns, leading to second and third waves of the virus and costing tens of thousands of lives, ministers are still pushing an irresponsible approach.
The plan to open the doors of all English schools to all year groups from March 8, rather than stagger pupils’ return to the classroom, means household mixing will take place on a huge scale.
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
Four decades on, the Wapping dispute stands as both a heroic act of resistance and a decisive moment in the long campaign to break trade union power. Lord JOHN HENDY KC looks back on the events of 1986
NEU members at Woodfield School in north London are taking sustained industrial action against enforced cuts to learning support assistants’ hours and pay. MARY ADOSSIDES reports