This may be of interest. Some of us have delved into the need for trade unions to engage with cooperatives more systematically. More dialogue is needed. ‘Co-operatives and Trade Unions Generating alliances for better and more meaningful work’ pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

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LGBTQ+ inclusion can boost corporate sustainability - LSE Business Review

Diversity and inclusion encourage innovation. And innovative workplaces are more likely to generate the innovations that support environmental performance.

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#OtD 20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a five-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9258...

🌊 Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

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The number of people providing full-time unpaid care has increased massively, as the social care system approaches breaking point.

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%

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I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

In case you missed it - here's this weeks episode of @boldpolitics.bsky.social with Gary Stevenson. 100k views and growing! youtu.be/WRVfmQkCSdk?...

How Labour Sold Their Souls To Billionaires | Gary Stevenson | Zack Polanski

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

Actor & campaigner Hugh Grant tells ITV News why he feels Labour has ‘betrayed’ hacking victims. He says seeing Keir Starmer forge close relationships with major newspaper barons is hard to stomach for the families who were promised things would change.

BREAKING: Keir Starmer has tasked a Conservative peer with writing a new planning bill to remove the ability for environmental groups to delay projects such as Heathrow’s third runway with judicial reviews www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews

Exclusive: One option could be to leave treaty that allows legal claims against projects such as Heathrow expansion

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The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation

Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

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Let me get this right. Gaza is to be a new Las Vegas and the Palestinian West Bank is to continue being fragmented into micro portions. In this dreadful context and late stage the heroic British ‘Empire’ recognises the Palestinian state. Well you have to keep up traditions in empires, heaven forbid

Kudos, indeed, to Spain and PM Sanchez for breaking the taboo in Europe. At the same time it is worth noting that, from a global perspective, Europe/OECD lags well behind world opinion on Palestine. (Source: @theguardian.com )

Jeremy Cliffe@jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Spain's was the first major Western government to grant Palestine full diplomatic recognition: a powerful assertion of the need for a two-state solution. Others are now rightly passing through the door Spain opened.

Britain needs affordable housing in the right places not a free hand for developers to build what they like, where they like, regardless of environmental consequences. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ministers tell Environment Agency to wave planning applications through

Exclusive: Officials say they have been told to do as little as legally possible to prevent approvals for housebuilding

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The result of #ChurchillsSpaniards is both a military and human history: one that illuminates the personal sacrifices of men who fought for a country not their own, in pursuit of a cause larger than national boundaries. Paperback 👇🏽 www.helion.co.uk/military-his...

The sight of opposition politicians being arrested has become quite common in the US.

Gwynne Hogan@gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

UK: No LGB Without the T: solidarity in the face of attacks  www.fbu.org.uk/magazine/aug...

No LGB Without the T: solidarity in the face of attacks

The FBU’s LGBT+ section stands in full solidarity with our trans and non-binary siblings, writes interim LGBT+ national sectional secretary Maria Buck

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Good grief...

Plashing Vole@plashingvole.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…

Yet more compelling evidence to support @greenparty.org.uk policy that public services should be in public hands 👇

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 11mo ago

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation – study

Shouldn't need saying - but sadly it does

Ed Davey@eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 11mo ago

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

There has always been ambivalence with the English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 flag. Its status is not clear or important as England is invisible in the British state. There are moments (football events) where it plays some ‘unifying role’ but its use by the far right ironically undermines it & debates on English politics.

Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream" Well said

Whether it's Brexit red lines, immigration, or EDI (this isn’t the US ffs) Blue Labour really are on a mission to alienate most of their electorate, and to thrash the UK economy in the process. Why is Starmer listening to these fools?

Prof Rachel Oliver@profrachelgan.bsky.social · last yr.

A group of Labour MPs, peers and supporters write: “We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.” Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The contribution of overseas students to the economy as students & when allowed to work has been substantial. The manner in which they are shortchanged by the UK that has benefitted from migrant labour & labour in its former colonies is unreal. Labour especially really should be ashamed of itself.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go

New jobs here! I'm on the Advisory Board of this Leverhulme Trust-funded project investigating 'The long-term impact of New Labour’s social and economic policies', and there are two Research Fellowship posts available: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow (Multiple positions, fixed term)

We are now recruiting 2 full time Research Fellows to work with Stephen Farrall and colleagues at Warwick (Emily Gray) and Queen Mary College, University of London (Maria Grasso) on their research int...

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This is what you're supposed to do.

Voices from the European Parliament: "...this agreement is not an opening; it is a surrender. It sells off our agriculture, weakens our environmental standards, and locks us into massive dependence on the United States."....

Euractiv@euractiv.com · 12mo ago

‘You surrendered’ on EU-US trade deal, Belgian MEP tells Commission

I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children. They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.