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Can I request that no dangerous hugely oversized 'wank panzers' driven by aspirational consumption obsessed fools be allowed on my road?

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TonyDobbins @tdobbo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Farage auditioning for a reality tv traitors

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TonyDobbins @tdobbo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Indeed. I remember those 🤣

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This Is Anfield @thisisanfield.com · 11/10/2026

NEW: ‘Robbed us all’, ‘CH£ATS’, ‘won f*ck all’ – Liverpool fans’ Anfield banners vs. Man City #lfc

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‘Robbed us all’, ‘CH£ATS’, ‘won f*ck all’ – Liverpool fans’ Anfield banners vs. Man City

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 11/10/2026

Barry Gardiner MP has the receipts; showing that England's water companies are persistently failing in their statutory duties. As Secretary of State for the Environment Angela Eagle already has the power to take them into Special Administration. "She can. She should."

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

‘For years the Observer tried to get to the truth of Russian interference until we sacked the reporter involved for participating in union activities’

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TonyDobbins @tdobbo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank you for the great chapter, Ed 😊

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have a new paper on the workplace case study tradition in #industrialrelations Briefly, it has reinvented itself as the study of organisational restructuring with attempts to assess the distributional impact of such changes. Even so, the flow of such articles is in decline.

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Alistair Grant @alistairkgrant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🎥 In this week’s episode of The Steamie I spoke to @ewangibbs.bsky.social about his new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class You can watch on YouTube or listen on Spotify / Apple Podcasts now m.youtube.com/watch?v=-1zN...

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How the working class disappeared from British politics

YouTube video by The Scotsman

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Those who think AI is going to largely automate white collar jobs in the next couple of years don’t understand the nature of work - @sarahoconnorft.ft.com nails it www.ft.com/content/4aad...

It is not obvious that AI agents could eliminate the need for this type of work, since it involves persuasion, contestation and the exchange of tacit knowledge and experience that is spread across different departments, and often exists inside people's heads rather than in a neatly codified handbook on the intranet.

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In re-reading this - I must acknowledge that it's very good. The intro is too long, but the rest is brilliantly clear. If I say so myself. annpettifor.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

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Its Time to Ignore Defeatists on Both Right and Left

The Left must reject Neoliberal Political Framing. Taxes do not pay for government spending. Taxes are a consequence of spending.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thames Water has long passed its notice period. Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Britain... It's a class act. 🎩 Privately Educated: Senior Armed Forces 63% Senior Judges: 62% House of Lords: 52% Foreign Office Diplomats: 53% Newspaper Columnists: 50% Political Commentators: 47% Leading Podcasters: 45% BBC Executives: 38% General Population: 7% elitistbritain.suttontrust.com

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Elitist Britain 2025

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

James Orr. Peter Thiel. Race science. Tech authoritarianism. We've spent years tracing the networks behind Britain’s ‘Dark Enlightenment’. Help us launch an urgent new investigative project to follow the money and map how it operates. #LightUpTheDark subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...

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#LightUpTheDark – Byline Times

Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“The regime sees education, scholarship, enlightenment as its real enemies and attacks them accordingly.” Victor Klemperer Germany 1934.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10/09/2026

Water company profits are soaring as raw sewage is being pumped into our waters. The government must bring all water companies back into public ownership: end the unlawful dumping of sewage, and ensure profits are being reinvested back into fixing leaks and building new infrastructure.

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Work and Equalities Institute @workequalities.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Papers are being submitted for our next Fairness at Work Conference, so don't miss out on getting a place! Deadline is Friday 30th October ⏱️ More details and link to register here 👉 www.wei.manchester.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Events | Work and Equalities Institute | The University of Manchester

We run a wide variety of different events and activities, and collaborate with a range of local, national and global partners. Join us for an event.

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Tom Jenkins @tomoljenkins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New public procurement Act opens the door to quality jobs in recognising the value of collective bargaining. @europarl.europa.eu must now ensure that companies that negotiate fair wages and conditions are given preference when contracts are awarded @etuc-ces.bsky.social www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Class has stormed back into the language of both the left and right. I've written for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on the return of political appeals to class. They raise pertinent questions over who the working class are, how they mobilise and who politically represents them?

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Return of the Working Class?

The rhetoric of class politics is everywhere, but only workers can make it a reality.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has signed an executive order creating the country’s first city agency dedicated explicitly to helping workers organize. He spoke with Jacobin about how the new office will advance his affordability agenda.

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Zohran Mamdani Just Created an Office of Worker Power

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Wealthy want UK govt to ditch pensions triple lock, cut welfare spending. Silence on corporate welfare Oil/gas, water, energy profiteering HMRC not collecting £59bn last yr Poorest 20% paying higher proportion in income in taxes than the richest 20%. It is always about hitting the poor, old, sick.

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Ditch pensions triple lock and cut welfare spending to calm markets, Burnham told

Bond market shock has ramifications for new prime minister’s first Budget, his former adviser warns

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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Juliet Schor @julietschor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just in time for #LaborDay I debated Joanne Lipman about whether we're ready for the 4 day week. Absolutely! Like most policies that benefit employees, we'll have to fight for it. Watch on YouTube, Substack, Apple, Spotify or listen on NPR. Just released! opentodebate.substack.com/p/is-america...

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Is America Ready for a Four-Day Work Week?

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Re-upping this...

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

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TonyDobbins @tdobbo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Would be interesting to compare wealth and corporate taxes with those on worker income.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's now extremely hard for Irish people to conceive what a wild tree even looks like, with mostly only domesticated, tamed versions remaining. This rainforest holly gives an idea. Rewilding is how we allow not only wild trees back, but the entire ecosystems of which they're meant to be a part.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

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Eurofound @eurofound.europa.eu · 01/09/2026

📣 Just published: Minimum wages in 2026: Annual review Over one year after the deadline for the transposition of the EU directive on adequate minimum wages has passed, this year’s annual review continue to take stock of what progress Member States have made. 📄https://ow.ly/gBHX50ZAS5i

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TonyDobbins @tdobbo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Indeed. Until they need to bail out capital like in 2008 or fund the military industrial complex.

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TonyDobbins @tdobbo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Attlee government nationalised 20% of the economy, created the NHS, built over 800k public houses between 1945-1951 under democratic socialism and may have gone further in socialising the country if reelected.

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City-REDI @city-redi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

NEW CITY-REDI REPORT‼️ New report by City-REDI Associate Professor Donald Houston examines the geographic inequalities in young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) across the UK. ow.ly/hLcA50ZFCM2

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The 99% Organisation @99organisation.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

‘Tough decisions’ has become almost synonymous with decisions which harm the UK, to enrich a tiny few. And yet there are ever-greater calls for more. We have been analysing the rhetoric and its impact. sh1.sendinblue.com/3gbd0ci2bglp...

An image illustrating the damage done to the UK population, to key public services and to the environment

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We are witnessing a shock redistribution from the many to the rich: The profit share is at its highest level since WWII. The first bump was sellers’ inflation which ushered in Trump. The second bump is Trump’s chaos casino designed to push up profits.

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Jaw dropping read (if you perservere to the end): "The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain" russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spread...

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The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain

The absurd error behind austerity, stagnation and the rise of populist rage.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What is so important to the ultra-rich that they must seize and destroy the world's resources, hold down wages and crush organised labour, capture politics to reduce the tax they pay, fund the far right to stifle democracy? Here's an answer. A Hermes Birkin 35 Diamond Bag. On sale for £449,555.68

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