What do Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, the Conservatives’ Peter Bottomley and our own Jenny Willott have in common? They’ve all signed up to this Early Day Motion tabled by Liberal Democrat MP for Ceredigion, Mark Williams. Mark’s motion welcomes a recent report* highlighting that job-sharing can stem the ‘female brain drain’ by enabling more women to

Hardeep Singh Kohli admits being part of the "Braveheart brain drain" who left Scotland for work in London, but would rush back if it became an independent nation.

I listen a lot to Radio 3, the classical music channel, especially first thing in the morning. This inevitably involves listening to BBC news bulletins, which can be quite an ordeal. This morning, as my brain surfaced into consciousness, I heard a strange item, about how the government intends to switch the subsidies it gives to the British movie industry towards more popular movies, presumably aw...

David Montgomery, who has died aged 84 of a brain haemorrhage, was one of the most prominent historians in the US and the model of a scholar-activist. Along with the late Herbert Gutman, he was the most influential practitioner of the "new labour history", which moved the study of workers away from the institutional history of unions to the workplace struggles, political ideologies and cultur...

When lawmakers pass legislation the primary focus should be on ways to stem the brain drain and boost opportunities for work, writes Luke Johnson

It is quite clear that Cameron's veto was not down to his growing a pair of balls, or a spine, heart or brain, come to that: it was the inevitable result of overreaching by Sarkozy and Merkel. Blinded by their doctrinaire EU-federalism, they failed to see that they were pushing the British PM into a place where he simply cannot go. His Party has been split for decades on the Europe issue and ...

Professor of sleep and physiology Derk-Jan Dijk explains how the brain works with little rest.

Perhaps I am a bit thick, but I have difficulty in understanding the argument that the Tories are making ad nausium against today's strike. Apparently the unions are irresponsible for conducting a strike while negotiations are ongoing! Isn't the time that negotiations are omgoing the best time to protest and express strength of feeling? Wouldn't strike action, protest, complaint etc be rather

How brain scans help politicians tap into our decisions

Ouch. The big news out of last night's debate is that Rick Perry may have crippled his campaign beyond repair. After saying there were three government departments he'd eliminate, he was only able to name two and froze for an agonizing 53 seconds when he tried to name a third one...ending with an embarrassed "Oops." OK, anyone can have a brain freeze, but the problem here is two-fold; fi...