Hat tip High Pay Centre and brilliant cartoon which I cannot remember source.
“We have estimated that FTSE 100 CEOs’ earnings for 2024 will surpass the median UK worker’s full time annual salary tod…Read more…
RISHI’S RAW DEAL -Pay £10 more tax and get £2 off
Poster campaign launched today in Wellingborough where Labour candidate, Gen Kitchen is campaigning to replace disgraced Tory MP, Peter Bone. Hat tip Independent “From Saturday, the main rate of national insurance will be cut by two percentage points …Read more…
TUC Pensions Conference 2024: pensions under the next government
I have just registered. https://www.tuc.org.uk/events/tuc-pensions-conference-2024-pensions-under-next-governmentOverviewRegistrations are now open for the TUC Pensions Conference 2024 on Wednesday 13 March at Congress House, London. With a g…Read more…
Countdown to London 26 Mile Winter Walk 2024 – 24/25 days training days to go
I am taking part in a sponsored 26 mile walking marathon at the end of this month for the homelessness charity St Mungos with colleagues from work. Most of the recent holiday was spent walking in the Peak district which was good cross training but…Read more…
Protect the right to strike
Trade unions are once again under Tory attack from this government. One in five workers is losing their right to strike. Repressive minimum service levels (MSLs) are being imposed to force unions to ‘police’ their own strikes and even cross picket lines.
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Goodbye to all that
Sad to say goodbye to this, but I’m not blogging here anymore. The good news is that I am doing a free substack newsletter called The Social Factor here.Read more…
Blog “Let’s make 2024 a success – Vote in our service group elections and celebrate UNISON’s Year of LGBT+ Workers” Christina McAnea
“Happy New Year to everyone in UNISON and here’s to a successful year for you and your families.I have high hopes for 2024 – 12 months of campaigning for UNISON’s Year of LGBT+ workers and for a national care service, securing pay deals across all publ…Read more…
Review: The Winter Queen, by Boris Akunin
I read this book, the first in the series of 13 novels about the late 19th century Russian detective Erast Fandorin, when it first appeared some twenty years ago. I remember little about the plot,…Read more…
Blog: Let’s make 2024 a success
Vote in our service group elections and celebrate UNISON’s Year of LGBT+ Workers
The article Blog: Let’s make 2024 a success first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Blog: Let’s make 2024 a success
Vote in our service group elections and celebrate UNISON’s Year of LGBT+ Workers
The article Blog: Let’s make 2024 a success first appeared on the UNISON National site.
“E7 Now and then” relaunch (& today is 133th Anniversary of the deaths of 26 Boys at Forest Gate Workhouse)
The Forest Gate, (Newham, London) local history site “E7-Now and then” is being relaunched after a 5 year gap. Which is really good news for people like me who live in Forest Gate and is fascinated by all history. Until I read about it in the sit…Read more…
Review: Letter of an Old Bolshevik
This is one of those books where saying who the writer was is contentious. It was initially published anonymously. Later, the exiled Russian Menshevik writer Boris Nicolaevsky was listed as the author. Nicolaevsky always claimed…Read more…
Happy New Year 2024
Been for some wonderful walks during holiday and looking forward to many more in 2024. Read more…
New York Times To Sue OpenAI & Microsoft; Sports Illustrated Sacks Senior Staff Over Use Of AI
The newspaper and magazine industry is gearing up for a battle over the use of AI in information harvesting and the use of artificial intelligence to create fake articles, fake writer profiles and photos. The New York Times is to … Continue reading Read more…
Homelessness crisis
The homelessness crisis, nationally and in Swindon, continues to worsen. More than 100,000 households are in temporary accommodation in England, … MoreRead more…
Mick Lynch’s charisma is undeniable. As for his strategy and tactics, the jury’s out | Gregor Gall
Magnetic Mick is a smooth operator with a robust and radical message, but the RMT leader has arguably failed to stave off the government’s attack on rail workersIn late June 2022, as the first national rail strikes began, the RMT union leader, Mick Lyn…Read more…
Merry Christmas 2023
Turkey is in the oven. Picture from our morning walk to work up an appetite.Read more…
Ceasefire – Free Palestine : You Tube Film by Unite’s Jamie Bramwell
This YouTube film and song about the genocide now happening in Gaza has been produced by Unite activist and construction section member from Merseyside Jamie Bramwell who releases his songs with his band Coalhouse. Please share widely.
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Review: Stalin’s Library – A Dictator and His Books, by Geoffrey Roberts
Geoffrey Roberts is a leading expert on Soviet history and chose a really interesting take on Stalin’s life with this book. His starting principle seems to be that whatever else Stalin was (e.g., a monster)…Read more…
Wanstead Flats A Short Illustrated History
I have finally just got around to ordering myself this book as a late Crimbo present. I have lived opposite Wanstead flats (now part of Epping Forest) for over 30 years and it is an absolute joy. I went for an early run this morning around the fl…Read more…