The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
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The science of power and influence
Science is often treated as if it’s apolitical, but swimming in money and influence, is that a realistic view, ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
Newton was president of the Royal Society between 1703 and 1727
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
AT THIS time of year much attention is paid to the celebrities of science, thanks to the announcement of Nobel prizes next week.
One of the most prestigious scientific organisations in the world is the Royal Society (there are 33 living members of the Royal Society with Nobels in physiology or medicine, and 18 in physics).
Around the 1640s, a group of natural philosophers, as early scientists were known, referred to their interactions as “their Invisible College.”
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