When the first wave of postwar immigrants arrived in Britain in the 1950s and ’60s, it was a period of rising wages, full employment, an expanding welfare state and strong trade unions. Today, Britain’s manufacturing base has all but disappeared, working-class communities have disintegrated, unions have been neutered and the welfare state has begun to crumble.

CED provides online access to the Service and also offers the Supplier Information Service (SIS), an online product catalog for suppliers.

If there is anything of philosophical significance to be taken at face value in ordinary thought and language it is the reference and attribution of properties to existent and nonexistent objects.

Workers of a lantern production factory in Da'an District, Zigong City, transport the finished lanterns.