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To tuesday in parliament. Our round up of the day at westminster. Coming up in the next half hour ministers pledge to try to save jobs as defence manufacuturer, bae announces that nearly 2,000 workers could be under threat. The government will continue to work with bae systems to make sure that compulsory redundancies are kept to a minimum. Meanwhile labour accuses the government of failing to act over the plight of workers in belfast whose jobs are at risk because of a trade dispute with the us. I fear that bombardier and everyone that depends on the firm is considered a fair price to deal for a post specs and deal with President Trump. Also on the programme the Parcel Delivery firm, hermes, defends the way it employs its drivers. And a new mp wades into a row over parliamentary procedure. I didnt expect my new rule to be reduced to be a member of a talking shop. But first ....
A century on from the author’s death, the word ‘kafkaesque’ has survived wrangles over his estate, calls for its banishment and being used on the Simpsons and misused as a meme. How did it gain such a hold over culture? ....
Ministers are trying to blame the Train Operating Companies (TOCs) for failing to make use of the new Minimum Service Regulations in their continuing – now two years in – dispute with Aslef. ....
To the uninitiated, the world of court rules and decorum, on show in the Lehrmann versus Network Ten matter, is foreign and confounding, writes Rosemary Sorensen. ....