This morning my wife Gillian, booked online a “drive thorough” test at Newham Leisure Centre. She has been feeling poorly for a number of days with classic common cold symptoms (congestion, blocked noise and some coughing fits) but he…Read more…
A run around east London lakes
Friday I went for a fairly early morning solo run around Wanstead flats and park (Epping Forest). There was still some mist round and spots of winter sunshine which made it pretty magical.
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Peace and Justice (in the world, if not – quite yet – in the Labour Party)
Today I was pleased to speak at the Labour Grassroots Zoom meeting, which focused on the problems being created by the correspondence from the General Secretary of the Labour Party purporting to issue “guidance” which steers Party members away f…Read more…
Newham – Voting for Change Launch Event
On Tuesday evening there was a well attended virtual launch of the Newham Campaign for a Committee Structure.
In May 2021 there will be a referendum of all Newham residents on whether they want to keep the Executive Mayor governance model or int…Read more…
Count me in! When it’s my turn, I’m getting Vaccinated! Goodbye Covid
Venezuela’s National Assembly Elections – A Landslide For PSUV
Venezuela’s National Assembly elections: an important victory for Chavismo Francisco Dominguez assesses the results of the vote. Venezuela’s free and fair elections to the National Assembly, held on…Read more…
Review: What is Hypnosis? Studies in Auto and Hetero Conditioning, by Andrew Salter
Yen Lo, the Communist Chinese villain in The Manchurian Candidate was a big fan of Andrew Salter’s work. Andrew Salter, now considered one of the founders of behaviour therapy, published this…Read more…
Does Compass point in the right direction?
So Compass have launched “Compass Labour” as part of a wider project to campaign to bring together a “progressive majority”. On the one hand this is an idea which pops up from time to time when it looks like the Tories cannot be defeated any…Read more…
London’s oldest football ground needs a new clubhouse roof
“The Old Spotted Dog Ground Trust is launching an appeal for urgent funds – £15,000 is needed to fix the clubhouse roof at Clapton CFC’s new home in Forest Gate.
The Old Spotted Dog is London’s oldest senior football ground and Clapton CFC became the …Read more…
How to Rent (and possibly avoid being evicted)
Hat tip blog “Nearly legal” (I had no idea of this requirement nor that a landlord cannot serve a section 21 eviction notice if they do not provide a copy to a tenant.
“MHCLG has published a new ‘How to Rent Guide’ today, 10 December 2020. As…Read more…
Sainsbury’s delivery drivers strike off
The six days of strike action by 12 outsourced drivers in the pay injustice dispute that could have hit deliveries to about 100 Sainsbury’s stores in London and the south east have been suspended,…Read more…
Gigafactory plans welcomed
Commenting on BritishVolt’s announcement today (December 11) that it plans to invest £2.6bn in an electric vehicle battery plant in Wansbeck, Northumberland, which coincided with a visit by prime…Read more…
BA cargo workers Christmas strike
Cargo workers employed by British Airways at Heathrow airport have today (December 11) announced that they will take nine days of strike action beginning on Christmas Day. On Monday (December 7) the…Read more…
Heathrow strike latest
Workers at Heathrow Airport will next week step up strike action in their increasingly bitter dispute over massive wage cuts that the company is imposing on them through a controversial fire and…Read more…
Now is the time to respect human and trade unions rights in Turkey
On the UN’s Human Rights Day, we are calling for human and trade union rights, along with democratic freedoms, to be respected in Turkey.Read more…
Trade unions have a crucial role in the struggle for race equality
The TUC’s new anti-racist taskforce will build on the work of the past two decades to map out the actions needed today to tackle unequal outcomes and keep race on the agenda.Read more…
Change is coming. Why I’m chairing the TUC’s new anti-racism task force
Trade unions are committed to eradicating the prejudice and discrimination and disadvantage that continue to deny many Black workers the opportunity to secure decent jobs and careers regardless of…Read more…
No industrial dispute will ever be lost in future – it will just lead to an “Australia-style” deal…
Regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Blogger) will realise that you are unlikely to read here any praise of the Tory Government – but anyone would have to admire the Prime Minister’s imaginative development of the English language.
Appare…Read more…
UNISON salutes team that kept up abortion access in lockdown
Union-sponsored annual nursing team award goes to nurses who helped ensure women had access to abortion services during COVID-19
The article UNISON salutes team that kept up abortion access in…Read more…
Heathrow strike and solidarity!
The strike by Heathrow airport workers is ramping up with three more days of action next week, on December 14, 17 and 18. Ahead of it we thought it would be nice to collate some of the messages of…Read more…