The Fraud by Paul Holden is informative about the Starmer Project, but it doesn't seem to have been covered by the mainstream media.

Still from recording of interview with Jayaben Desai, treasurer of the Grunwick strike committee in 1976-1978. The recording was made in 2007.

In 1976-78, the Grunwick dispute became a UK labour movement cause célèbre

Dubbed the 'strikers in saris', the largely female and South Asian workforce fought for union recognition

Recordings with key participants (in 2007) are available at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

#Archive30 #SoundAndVision

#OtD 21 Apr 1834 30,000 marched for the freedom of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, agricultural workers from the Dorset town of Tolpuddle who were transported to Australia as punishment for their trade unionism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9336...

Bust up big corporations and tackle Wall Street’s greed.

Get big money out of politics.

Strengthen unions and boost wages.

Pass Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare, and so much more...

This is the agenda Democrats need to fight for.

It's not enough to simply be anti-Trump.

It doesn't take a forensic accountant to work out whose interests Nigel Farage really serves

Successive governments have failed to learn lessons of Grenfell Tragedy The conditions that facilitated the tragedy remain unchecked

9th anniversary of the Grenfell fire is approaching. 72 people died, thousands more scarred.

Main causes remain unaddressed.
Lust for higher profits
Unaccountable corporate power
Performance related executive pay
Failure of regulators
Indifference of govts to the cry of the people

Nothing changed.

#C4News last night reported on the wholesale targeting of ambulances & paramedics in Lebanon by Israel, including the recent 'triple hit', when Israel attacked an ambulance, then attacked paramedics who went to help, and then attacked further paramedics also trying to help.

All those folks who voted for Brexshit 🫣

The UK "condemns" attacks on UN peacekeepers while maintaining military collaboration with an Israeli state attacking UN peacekeepers.

Does the Foreign Office think no-one is noticing their rank, daily hypocrisy?

Great to see the @greenparty.org.uk under @zackpolanski.bsky.social have included tackling excessive income equality in their plan to take on the affordability crisis. 10:1 pay ratios is very ambitious, but far better to aim high than accept a broken status quo which few people support.

Country that lectures Iran on democracy arrests another 523 people for peacefully protesting The absurdity surrounding the UK’s treatment of Palestine Action and its supporters has reached new lows.

One elderly man was arrested while using a walking stick and an elderly woman was carried away as the crowd chanted "shame on you" at officers. One woman was such an extremist she made a peace sign as she was dragged into a police van.

www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/country-th...

37 years on from the day that led to the unlawful deaths of 97 Liverpool fans and a year on from when a promised Hillsborough Law should have been in place, the message to the Prime Minister is simple…

Next Thursday we are holding a webinar to launch the our new report analysing three years of data from the Fair Reward Framework, focused on trends in remuneration, employee voice, and wider business practices across the FTSE 350.

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Need policies to restrict these monstrosities. Dangerous, unnecessary, take up too much space, bad for environment. And ugly. Seem to appeal to aspirational types obsessed by conspicuous consumption.

Figure 1 shows estimates of three types of labour market violation that we can assess using survey data, which suggest that hundreds of thousands of workers are not benefiting from the rights that they are owed. An estimated 445,000 jobs were paid less than the minimum wage in 2025 (22 per cent of those covered by it), up from 382,000 a year earlier. In addition, new analysis based on the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) suggests that as many as 2.2 million jobs do not come with any annual leave.

Even as employment rights are becoming stronger, non-compliance with existing rights remains a concern.

Hundreds of thousands of workers do not benefit from the basic rights they are owed.

Read more about how the new Fair Work Agency can address this➡️ buff.ly/2cPqeAG

Another way of thinking of this conflict is as an Everything, Everywhere All at Once War, a polyconflict where so many fault-lines have intersected and so many ripple effects have been felt the world over: geopolitical, economic, religious, civilisational, cultural, racial and party political. Now that a

Fascinating analysis of Trump’s war of choice. open.substack.com/pub/historyn...

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

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French Senator
Claude Malhuret says what the majority of the world is thinking

Pay at big banks is soaring while millions struggle through the cost of living crisis.

This level of inequality isn’t sustainable, and if it’s not addressed, it will keep eroding trust in both business and politics.

How the FTSE grew comfortable with bumper pay for bosses Generous deals to keep CEOs at some of the largest UK companies have caused barely a ripple of discontent

An emboldened business lobby, left largely unchallenged by both regulators and the government, feels confident in awarding CEOs bumper pay rises, knowing there is little to stop them.
www.ft.com/content/0175...

Voters in Reform Seats Don’t Like Nigel Farage’s Plan to Rip Up Workers’ Rights Even voters in Nigel Farage's own constituency support the new workers rights that he has committed to tear up, a major new poll suggests

🔴 Voters in Reform Seats Don’t Like Nigel Farage’s Plan to Rip Up Workers’ Rights

Even voters in Nigel Farage’s own constituency support the new workers rights that he has committed to tear up, a major new poll suggests
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/31/r...

“Reform’s so called great repeal bill would scrap the Employment Rights Act, would scrap the Equality Act, take away rights of millions of hard working people up and down the country”

Paul Nowak TUC General Secretary

The workers that politics forgot Modern politics has a picture of work that is half a century out of date. And it contributes to lack of political trust and a weaker economy and society.

New Substack out.

It's all about how politics has modern work largely wrong. And what a contemporary politics of work might look like.

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#OtD 27 Mar 1997 @Robbie9Fowler was fined for showing support for sacked dockworkers during a European Cup Winners Cup match. After scoring his second goal in Liverpool's 3-0 victory, Fowler displayed a T-shirt reading "Support the 500 sacked dockers" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9936...

Well done Robbie

Governments controlling prices? It has long been unthinkable – but may now be inevitable | Andy Beckett In Mexico and Spain, leaders who have capped public costs have been rewarded at the ballot box. As another cost of living surge arrives, it may be a policy our leaders are unable to resist, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Governments controlling prices? It has long been unthinkable – but may now be inevitable | Andy Beckett

Just seen my secondary royalties statement from @alcs.co.uk for this year.

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It's beyond belief that even with the worked example from the States of what happens when you vote in unfettered pluto-populists, Brits are still talking about "giving Reform a go"

Just imagine if these rags led with headlines like:

• OIL GIANTS BANK RECORD PROFITS WHILE BRITAIN FREEZES

• SUPERMARKETS RAMP UP PRICES AS EXECUTIVES POCKET MILLIONS

• BILLIONAIRES BUY UP HOMES — FAMILIES PRICED OUT

A girl can dream…

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Let’s get serious – is laughter on the wane at work? Not in Finland…