It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Interested in work and employment relations, and other things in life outside the world of work: hiking, footy (YNWA), cycling, nature, music. Plebeian origins. Greatest achievements: seeing a stoat in winter ermine, a badger 🦡and rescuing a hedgehog 🦔
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The Manchester City case shows us how the global mega-rich now expect to operate with impunity | Jonathan Liew
When transnational alliances have scarcely been weaker, the way the club was allegedly run offers a bleak vision of a world driven by brute power and wealth, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Those who think AI is going to largely automate white collar jobs in the next couple of years don’t understand the nature of work - @sarahoconnorft.ft.com nails it www.ft.com/content/4aad...
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AI and the future of work: Utopia or dystopia, threat or promise?
Current debates about AI are taking me right back to the 1970s when I first started writing about the implications of technology for work and daily life. Making me sometimes want to yawn and someti…
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In re-reading this - I must acknowledge that it's very good. The intro is too long, but the rest is brilliantly clear. If I say so myself. annpettifor.substack.com/p/its-time-t...
Its Time to Ignore Defeatists on Both Right and Left
The Left must reject Neoliberal Political Framing. Taxes do not pay for government spending. Taxes are a consequence of spending.
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When universities ask their staff to do more with less, is it really a test of individual fortitude? Rachelle McKay explains why we should stop praising endurance: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/its-time-stop-celebrating-resilience #Highered #Academicsky
It’s time to stop celebrating resilience
When universities ask their staff to do more with less, is it really a test of individual fortitude? Rachelle McKay explains why we should stop praising endurance
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Thames Water has long passed its notice period. Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.
Britain... It's a class act. 🎩 Privately Educated: Senior Armed Forces 63% Senior Judges: 62% House of Lords: 52% Foreign Office Diplomats: 53% Newspaper Columnists: 50% Political Commentators: 47% Leading Podcasters: 45% BBC Executives: 38% General Population: 7% elitistbritain.suttontrust.com
Elitist Britain 2025
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"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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James Orr. Peter Thiel. Race science. Tech authoritarianism. We've spent years tracing the networks behind Britain’s ‘Dark Enlightenment’. Help us launch an urgent new investigative project to follow the money and map how it operates. #LightUpTheDark subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
“The regime sees education, scholarship, enlightenment as its real enemies and attacks them accordingly.” Victor Klemperer Germany 1934.
Water company profits are soaring as raw sewage is being pumped into our waters. The government must bring all water companies back into public ownership: end the unlawful dumping of sewage, and ensure profits are being reinvested back into fixing leaks and building new infrastructure.
Papers are being submitted for our next Fairness at Work Conference, so don't miss out on getting a place! Deadline is Friday 30th October ⏱️ More details and link to register here 👉 www.wei.manchester.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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We run a wide variety of different events and activities, and collaborate with a range of local, national and global partners. Join us for an event.
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New public procurement Act opens the door to quality jobs in recognising the value of collective bargaining. @europarl.europa.eu must now ensure that companies that negotiate fair wages and conditions are given preference when contracts are awarded @etuc-ces.bsky.social www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...
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Class has stormed back into the language of both the left and right. I've written for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on the return of political appeals to class. They raise pertinent questions over who the working class are, how they mobilise and who politically represents them?
Return of the Working Class?
The rhetoric of class politics is everywhere, but only workers can make it a reality.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has signed an executive order creating the country’s first city agency dedicated explicitly to helping workers organize. He spoke with Jacobin about how the new office will advance his affordability agenda.
Zohran Mamdani Just Created an Office of Worker Power
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has signed an executive order creating the country’s first city agency dedicated explicitly to helping workers organize. He spoke with Jacobin about how the new office will advance his affordability agenda.
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Wealthy want UK govt to ditch pensions triple lock, cut welfare spending. Silence on corporate welfare Oil/gas, water, energy profiteering HMRC not collecting £59bn last yr Poorest 20% paying higher proportion in income in taxes than the richest 20%. It is always about hitting the poor, old, sick.
Ditch pensions triple lock and cut welfare spending to calm markets, Burnham told
Bond market shock has ramifications for new prime minister’s first Budget, his former adviser warns
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80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
Just in time for #LaborDay I debated Joanne Lipman about whether we're ready for the 4 day week. Absolutely! Like most policies that benefit employees, we'll have to fight for it. Watch on YouTube, Substack, Apple, Spotify or listen on NPR. Just released! opentodebate.substack.com/p/is-america...
Is America Ready for a Four-Day Work Week?
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Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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It's now extremely hard for Irish people to conceive what a wild tree even looks like, with mostly only domesticated, tamed versions remaining. This rainforest holly gives an idea. Rewilding is how we allow not only wild trees back, but the entire ecosystems of which they're meant to be a part.
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
📣 Just published: Minimum wages in 2026: Annual review Over one year after the deadline for the transposition of the EU directive on adequate minimum wages has passed, this year’s annual review continue to take stock of what progress Member States have made. 📄https://ow.ly/gBHX50ZAS5i
I've been wondering. And also heartbroken. I'm pure CUNY, but this hurts public college students too and leaves NYC worse off. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
What’s Left of The New School? - Dissent Magazine
Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly ...
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NEW CITY-REDI REPORT‼️ New report by City-REDI Associate Professor Donald Houston examines the geographic inequalities in young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) across the UK. https://ow.ly/hLcA50ZFCM2
‘Tough decisions’ has become almost synonymous with decisions which harm the UK, to enrich a tiny few. And yet there are ever-greater calls for more. We have been analysing the rhetoric and its impact. sh1.sendinblue.com/3gbd0ci2bglp...
