#Labour

Aileen McHarg

AileenMcHarg

Today is #UCUStrikesBack anti-casualisation day. My last dept was heavily dependent on casual labour (as hourly paid tutors or part-time teaching fellows) because the staff-student ratio was what can only

Staedtler

Staedtler

The four options are these. And one of these four must be what happensPresent termsNew termsNo termsNo Brexit Present terms: Single market and customs indefinitely. This is so colossal a

Paul Waugh

paulwaugh

.@MattHancock just warned that all exercise outside the home could be banned unless more people start following the current rules more strictly. Story:https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/outdoor-exercise-could-be-banned-in-stricter-coronavirus-loc

Sean

_Sean_________

Why is proportional representation a good idea?1. It means that *all* votes matter in elections, not just those for the candidate with the most number of votes. Why is proportional

Tom Williams

shirleymush

What a snide Stephen Bush turned out to be. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/09/why-corbynism-failed Absolute cunt. How fucking dare you position yourself as morally superior to us when you're part of a political current

benna

96SE0K

what’s happening in italy rn : a thread tw // slavery, death, human trafficking, mafia italy has been a place of immigration since the 1970s but it’s been 2 decades

Alison Pennington

ak_pennington

The government is waging war on the poor. Convincing Australians that millions of victims of this pandemic and economic shutdowns have brought insecurity upon themselves is their aim: "Lazy" "job-snobs"

cat

thewiffs

1. A Twitter story. Nearly 70 years ago a woman from one of the poorest parts of #belfast went into labour. Thinking it was premature labour, around about 30 weeks,

Philipp Heimberger

heimbergecon

Dutch prime minister Rutte and other "frugals" continue to use distorted images of Italy and Southern Europe to water down the EU recovery fund. Here are seven ("surprising") facts about

emi 🌙 𝄇

catboyshinji

I‘m always thinking, “I don’t want to work, I hate work, I wish i could never work,” but that isn’t true at allI, and probably most people on earth, would

Ash Sarkar

AyoCaesar

I'm not sure there's anything to say beyond impotently bleating what's already been said, but my god, the explosion in Beirut yesterday just feels like yet another example of human

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

Here's a statement of the bleedin' obvious. There's a quite massive difference in how Keir Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn *do* politics. I think it's at the heart of most of

Andy Collier

realAndyCollier

Positives of Jeremy Corbyn:- he oversaw the party adopting a strong and coherent anti austerity messageNegatives of Jeremy Corbyn:- rife institutional racism, second party to have the EHRC after BNP-

Oz Katerji

OzKaterji

Lisa Nandy as Shadow Foreign Secretary is a solid appointment. Looks like the days of having Russian state agitprop repeated from the front bench are over.https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1246829775416692739 Lisa Nandy voted in

Oli Mould

olimould

Remeber the general election campaign? I know it was back in 2019 which is a world away so here’s a little recap of some of the key promises made by

Max Harris

MaxHarr03421445

Governing “for every NZer” - Jacinda Ardern’s line on Saturday night - must mean governing for groups+individuals whose interests have been neglected or forgotten by NZ politics of the last