A tax on banks could bring in £19 billion from Britain's 4 biggest banks alone - enough to cover Andy Burnham’s VAT cut on electricity bills⚡the £2 bus cap🚌 & pub, club & music venue🕺business rate cuts more than 13 times over. Tell new Chancellor John Healey to tax the banks! bit.ly/TaxTheBanks

#TaxTheBanks

Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing. The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...

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Driving cars like this should be as socially taboo as drink driving. Personally, Id be embarrassed to be seen in one

Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”

The root of the anger: Why post-industrial towns blame the wrong scapegoat Decades of economic neglect have fuelled anger in many post-industrial towns, but often towards the wrong target @handhyorkshire.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

The root of the anger: Why post-industrial towns blame the wrong scapegoat

Decades of economic neglect have fuelled anger in many post-industrial towns, but often towards the wrong target

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Social care is not just a funding challenge – it’s a workforce challenge, too.

Why Andy Burnham is right to put the workforce at the heart of social care reform

Social care is not just a funding challenge – it’s a workforce challenge, too.

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Mamdani’s Grocery Stores Will Offer 30 Percent Discount on Some Products Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s five city-owned grocery stores will provide a 30 percent discount on produce, meat, bread and milk. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/n...

Mamdani’s Grocery Stores Will Offer 30 Percent Discount on Some Products (Gift Article)

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s five city-owned grocery stores will provide a 30 percent discount on produce, meat, bread and milk.

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Opposition to the prospect of badger culling in Wales is continuing to grow after 10,000 people backed a petition calling on the Senedd to reject the policy

Badger cull petition meets Senedd debate threshold after overwhelming support

Nation.Cymru Staff Opposition to the prospect of badger culling in Wales is continuing to grow after 10,000 people backed a petition calling on the Senedd to reject the policy. It follows the passing ...

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A handful of guys asserting the right to pillage all human knowledge and creative labor to sell it back to people they've convinced not to value human knowledge and creative labor in order to amass personal wealth and power is not only gross, it's profoundly uninteresting.

“The kingdom of the accountants and the HR department squeezes out innovation and imagination.” Ian Bostridge’s latest Classical Notes column:

Classical notes: Humanity’s sake

In the age of AI, the arts are more important than ever. They teach us what is it to be a human

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What can we learn from data about the current trends in university staffing in the humanities, social sciences and arts subjects? 🧵 Read on for key insights or see the full analysis: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...

My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is coming out in October. You can preorder it from Waterstones with a 25% discount today and tomorrow! Place your order here ⬇️ www.waterstones.com/book/an-inju...

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Gap between the pay of FTSE 100 CEOs and UK workers the widest for 8 years. Median pay of FTSE 100 CEO increased from £4.66m in 2024/25 to £5.06m in 2025/26. UK bosses get 130 times average worker’s salary, often for mediocre performance. Workers generate wealth but have no say on exec pay.

Gap between the pay of FTSE 100 CEOs and UK workers the widest for 8 years - High Pay Centre

The High Pay Centre's annual review of CEO pay in the FTSE 100 shows the Median FTSE 100 CEO to median UK worker pay ratio rose to 130:1 in 2025/26, the highest for 8 years and up from 124:1 last year...

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Why Britain’s privatisation experiment is so extraordinary by international standards. www.arguably.uk/p/can-andy-b...

Why Britain Is Losing a Generation to Inequality open.substack.com/pub/wilkinso...

Why Britain Is Losing a Generation to Inequality

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

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Big thanks to and solidarity with the fire fighters who have dealt with the fire on Conwy mountain. Essential labour saves lives ✊

Ian Hall@ianhall.bsky.social · 3w ago

Record heat. Bone-dry landscapes. Strong winds. Then the wildfires arrive. None of this should be surprising anymore. As heatwaves become more intense, the impacts cascade through ecosystems, infrastructure, public health, and emergency services. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Big thanks to and solidarity with the fire fighters who have dealt with the fire on Conwy mountain. Essential labour saves lives ✊

Ian Hall@ianhall.bsky.social · 3w ago

Record heat. Bone-dry landscapes. Strong winds. Then the wildfires arrive. None of this should be surprising anymore. As heatwaves become more intense, the impacts cascade through ecosystems, infrastructure, public health, and emergency services. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Byline Times has always existed as an independent check on power – recognising the established media is itself a power bloc shaping our democracy, society, the ideas we think with. You can support those dedicated to digging no matter which way the wind blows: subscribe.bylinetimes.com. It matters.

Absolutely, definitely, not “the Establishment”…

Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster

The backbreaking toil of the sanitation worker is the work that makes all of human civilization possible.

The Invisible Heart of Modern Life Is the Garbage Worker

The backbreaking toil of the sanitation worker is the work that makes all of human civilization possible.

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#OtD 5 Jul 1777 the word 'scab', meaning 'strikebreaker', was used in print for the first time. One of the most important words in the working class vocabulary! stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1052...

'The future is here.' AI and the university (among other topics).

BBC Radio 4 - Currently, The Artificial University

Can university education survive AI?

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Combing through humanities students, while combing over STEM students, while closing Humanities programmes and making Humanities academics redundant as surplus to the employability agenda. The market, in 2026.

Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social · last mo.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

The People’s History Museum has announced a series of guided tours of its new exhibition, ‘On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity’, led by curator, Mark Wilson. Find out more and book your place here: sslh.org.uk/2026/07/02/o...

On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity (Guided Tours)

The People’s History Museum has announced a series of guided tours of its new exhibition, ‘On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity’, led by curator, Mark Wilson. Marking …

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“There’s a real mismatch between the bonhomie character Farage likes to present and the reality of Reform's policies.” TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak on losing traditionally Labour members to Reform.

I listened to Taj on the latest episode of Thinking Allowed on Radio 4. One of the things discussed was the Grunwick strike that began 50 years sgo. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Strikes, Solidarity and South Asian Britain

Strikes, anti-racism and the fight for rights among South Asian Britons.

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Taj Ali@tajali1.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My book on the history of British South Asian political activism is out this September! Available to pre-order now from all good bookshops and online.