MarshaJanexxwww.unionfutures.blogspot.comSent with Instant Email from T-MobileFrom: "LRC Information" <info@l-r-c.org.uk> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:40:37 +0100To: <info@l-r-c.org.uk>ReplyTo: <info@l-r-c.org.uk> Subject: London LRC bulletin - the voting begins LABOUR...

SIMON ASHDOWN wrote the episodes of EastEnders going out on BBC1 at 7:25pm on Tuesday 7th, at 7:30pm on Thursday 9th and at 8:00pm on Thursday 10th September. SEBASTIAN BACZKIEWICZ'S radio series Pilgrim continues with "The Lost Hotel" going out on Radio 4 at 2:15pm on Tuesday 7th...

It's all about communication! Whether you want to learn how to communicate in French, Spanish or Sign Lanugage, come along to the taster sessions at Ashford for some enjoyable learning! Contact Richard Daniels (click on the poster above) for further details.

The Government’s review of workplace pension reforms is now on its final stretch, and is due to deliver its final report towards the end of the month. I have no insight into what they are likely to say, although there is clearly heavy lobbying from the pensions industry to rip the settlement...

I've said this before, but in one sense I find the development of the Stewardship Code (and equivalents elsewhere) a bit odd. Because what they are trying to do is make behaviour that is assumed/argued to be in shareholders' financial self-interest into best practice. Get that? It's a bit like...

 The TUC was among the “coalition” of 22 green groups, green manufacturers and countryside bodies warning Chris Huhne against cutting subsidies for green electricity and heating as part of the government’s spending review. Their letter said a new air of uncertainty over government support,...

Connexions Services in Windsor and Maidenhead, Brighton and Hove and Birmingham are at risk of outright closure, whilst those in Northamptonshire, Sutton, Cheshire and Warrington, and Wigan face cuts of 40 per cent or more. These cuts and more are detailed in a database produced by A Thousand Cuts...

The USA was once the great engine of world capitalism but an addiction to banking and finance has laid the economy low. A new report shows that the bosses are still raking it in and that the most...

Ex-London Mayor Ken Livingstone has published a damning critique of the Con Dem cuts programme, showing that women are more heavily affected by cuts in housing benefit and pension...

How many things can one government advisor get so wrong? Apparently as many as you like if you listen to Lord Young, former Cabinet member in Thatcher’s government and now the coalition’s health...

Early yesterday morning I was with London UNISON convener, Gloria Hanson, at Euston to join other trade unionists who were helping London Labour Mayor Candidate, Ken Livingtone, launch his Boris and CONDEM anti-cuts campaign.  We went on a open air double decker bus to the Beormund Community...

In less than three weeks, the UN will hold a review summit on the Millennium Development Goals (set in 2000, they are due to be achieved in 2015 so we ought to be two thirds of the way there – and we aren’t). Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and International Development Secretary of...

Day two of Vegtember and I am jonesing for a curry. Now I think it is fair to say that it is very much a western thing that all curries have to contain meat. Mostly on the subcontinent the food will...

Women and cuts – new report by Ken Livingstone Women in London will face a disproportionate share of public spending cuts, according to a new report, published today by Ken Livingston. The cuts in benefits and tax credits for families and children, the assault on Housing Benefit and the...

The London Screenwriters’ Festival is offering members of the Writers' Guild a special discount of £75 off the regular festival ticket price of £299. The London Screenwriters’ Festival is the new annual writers’ and filmmakers’ festival, focusing on the creation and development of material for...

On The Guardian Theatre blog, Guild member John Morrison accuses British theatre of abusing the work of playwrights not working in English. One can argue that in the theatre anything goes, particularly when the author is safely dead and long out of copyright. But one of the principles that marks...

The Royal Statistical Society has written to the UK Statistics Authority to call for a comprehensive review of inflation measures. The letter, from RSS President David Hand to Sir Michael Scholar (the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority) expresses concern about the way in which the Office for...