Three documentaries that seek to give a retrospective understanding farm protests

Three documentaries that seek to give a retrospective understanding farm protests

15th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala screened three documentaries on farmers’ protests of 2020-21. Bigger struggles, and events, in their immediacy, often drown us in a flurry of developments and their various strands and narratives. To make sense of them, one needs to look back at them in retrospect, after a few years, … Read more

Retrospective pay talks are ‘not right’ – Barclay

Retrospective pay talks are ‘not right’ – Barclay

The health secretary said “we should be looking forward” to the pay review body giving its next settlement as health staff in England strike over pay. Steve Barclay said the government wanted to work “constructively” with unions and was “keen” to get evidence to the independent pay review body “which reflects the pressure the NHS … Read more