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Conrad Landin

@conradlandin

1 year

I reviewed The Accursed Share at @talbotrice75 for @Apollo_magazine

The art of getting deep into debt | Apollo Magazine

A demanding group show about the world economy could do with some more showing and less telling, writes Conrad Landin

www.apollo-magazine.com

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Conrad Landin

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7 years

Toby Young says Corbyn couldn't get into uni. I ask how he got into Oxford. He deletes tweet. Wasn't rhetorical question - see his memoir:

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Police attempt to stop the demo progressing through Central Station before giving up @RMT_Scotland @RMTunion @GMBGlasgowCC @yclbritain @GlasgowStrike

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Crazy scenes at Palestine demo in London as police decide to form a cordon to block off the Jewish bloc from the rest of the march. After much protest, initially met with officers saying “you’re entitled to your demo” and “I’m just here to get paid”, the police move on to cheers

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Richard Coles’s brother was an undercover police officer who deceived a teenager into a long term sexual relationship to spy on animal rights activists. The jolly rev thought it was all a bit of a joke - so much so he wrote about it in his memoir and unwittingly exposed him.

Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈

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@RevRichardColes I can do without your sanctimonious tone. I find corruption and hereditary power more than annoying. But you support that while only being slightly irked that our rights were taken away and peaceful protesters that represented no security threat were detained. Pathetic.

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7 months

How long before @labourwhips deletes this? As Palestine is bombed to smithereens and Israel raids hospitals, for many in the Westminster bubble, today’s vote on the ceasefire is just a game.

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2 years

James O’Brien, 2007: “If Bob Crow turns up at your shop, pub, cafe or minicab firm, don’t serve him.”

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2 years

Huge demo in Glasgow today in support of the @RMTunion strike marching on Central station

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11 months

Right now in a room somewhere in the House of Commons, two besuited teenage-looking advisers who think they’re in The West Wing are trying to convince the Labour leader that being branded “Sir Kid Starver” is actually the best possible outcome.

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2 years

The @FBUScotland @fbunational fire engine arrives at the @RMTunion picket in Glasgow

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3 years

“I was born in a council house, as far as I’m concerned I will die in one. “Why should my family who have lived there for 30 years… have to move because of the job I’ve got? “If I moved out of my house tomorrow the first thing you’d say is ‘Comrade Crow leaves his roots.’”

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A Labour MP cleared of making fraudulent housing claims is still living in her council flat almost two years after she began earning nearly £80,000 a year, it has emerged

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Conrad Landin

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5 years

Thatcher enforced postal ballots to undermine workplace solidarity. Of course it's the postal workers who have turned that on its head.

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Poor old @royalmailnews thought things would slow down once we go through the first weekend of voting. No chance. This video from factory lane, Croydon had so many members in it we had to 1/2 it to get onto Twitter. Incredible #WeRiseAgain 🦁

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3 years

Here in Pollokshields immigration police, backed by Police Scotland, have seized two residents. For hours the community has been refusing to allow them to move.

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6 years

Good point: the Mail is actually owned by a Viscount, one rank above. "Baron" is a slur.

Jack Doyle

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6 years

Dear @BBCNews . Does the use of ‘press barons’ in this story meet your standards of impartiality/neutrality? Or is it pejorative? ‘Newspaper owners’? ‘Proprietors’?

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8 years

Builders' union Ucatt nominates Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leader. They nominated Andy Burnham last year.

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6 months

@Jay_Sutherland_ @omdimbeyachadUK Not true and you shouldn’t make such assumptions.

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7 years

I'm so angry that May is exploiting this tragedy to go full presidential on us when this has happened on her government's watch.

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7 years

NEW: workers at two McDonalds restaurants have voted by a margin of 95.7 per cent to strike over working conditions, job security and pay

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8 years

BREAKING: Unite, Labour's largest affiliate, votes to support mandatory re-selection of MPs.

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2 years

A reminder that less than four years ago, the entire Scottish Parliament gave a round of applause to the founder of a Ukrainian neonazi party. Forgive me for being a little sceptical of the Holyrood bubble in its apparently sincere and well-informed pronouncements this week.

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Conrad Landin

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2 years

Clearly knows how much of an overlap there is between FBPE and mask police Twitter there is, and aiming for the greatest provocation possible. Respect.

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2 years

Honoured to have been invited to attend the inauguration of @gabrielboric as the new President of Chile in Santiago. 🇨🇱 President Boric has a vision to close the gap between rich and poor, end decades of painful neoliberalism and give hope to the next generation of Chileans.

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Thornberry: "I cannot remember politician in Britain who has put up with so much. The one who's been strong & stable has been Jeremy Corbyn"

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7 years

Johnson using this for digs at Corbyn, you're the foreign secretary. May is PM. May was home secretary for six years. Look in the mirror FFS

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1 year

“Jessica”, the woman deceived into the relationship with Andy Coles, has campaigned tirelessly for truth and justice. As with most #spycops cases these haven’t exactly been forthcoming

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3 months

Sneering condescension dressed up as sympathy. But it says the quiet part out loud: Diane Abbott is disliked by the commentariat because she has refused to alter her politics, or give up politics, in a manner that would allow her to become a national treasure.

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The tragic trajectory of Diane Abbott. My ⁦ @thetimes ⁩ column.

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If MacAskill is so embarrassing why was the SNP willing to have him in the party until this morning?

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Ooft. Ian Blackford puts the boot in to Kenny MacAskill. Says he has become an “increasing embarrassment” and has urged him to quit as an MP

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@jruddy99 Labour literally re-published the Communist Manifesto in 1948.

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3 years

I have decided that now is the right time for me to move on & to pursue new opportunities - so I am leaving my position as Head of Communications at Scottish Labour. It has been an honour & a privilege to work with and support many colleagues, party representatives & activists.

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Nice morning speaking to oil workers in Aberdeen for @newint apart from being stopped by @policescotland officers who asked what I was writing about, noted “renewable energy” & made me wait while ran my details through databases in spite of seeing press ID #JournalismIsNotACrime

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2 months

There is no Israel-Hamas war. Almost six months into an indiscriminate campaign of civilian bombardment with a death toll off the scale of most modern wars, describing it as such is just misinformation.

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Protesters have gathered in London for the 11th National March for Palestine, starting at Russell Square and ending at Trafalgar Square. Israel-Hamas war latest:

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7 years

Tories restrict right to strike, introduce huge tribunal fees & seek to curb accident compensation... then pledge to enhance workers' rights

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3 years

Good morning! Today I start as co-editor at New Internationalist magazine ( @newint ).

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NEW: Momentum has announced that its membership has reached 40,000 - and thus overtaken that of the Green party.

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@AaronBastani Bob Crow: Socialist, Leader, Fighter by @leftacademic

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Toby Young got two Bs and a C, but got into Oxford after his dad, Sir Michael Young, put a call in.

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Toby Young says Corbyn couldn't get into uni. I ask how he got into Oxford. He deletes tweet. Wasn't rhetorical question - see his memoir:

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3 years

MPs attempting to sway the outcomes of union elections (not just Unite, but GMB too in recent weeks) makes clear you see them as Labour party factional manoeuvres. If you really care so much about representing workers, let the contests take their course and work with the winners.

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The obsession with life stories - whether something as humdrum as this or sob-inducing tales told in the Commons chamber - is a symptom of the rotten state of our political system. It allows politicians to avoid telling us what they’ll actually do in office.

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I discovered my passion for law at @UniversityLeeds and it took me on an incredible journey.

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7 years

BREAKING: Richard Leonard elected leader of Scottish Labour with 56.7 per cent of the vote

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@hannoir @Dani1987C Do you really think you’re going to win elections if that’s how you treat the people you’re relying on to do so?

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3 years

Telling comment from a “Labour source” to the Mirror. The union link is there to give unions a political voice - but it’s also there to give Labour a voice in the workplace. If ppl in influential positions think it’s just about money, it’s no wonder the Bakers are disaffiliating.

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In today’s Daily Mirror and Daily Record, @ewangibbs and I have an exclusive on how Thatcher’s government delayed pit closures till after the 1983 general election - knowing they would provoke a national strike.

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2 years

Rally outside Glasgow’s Buchanan Street Apple Store this evening - where following a vote of workers, Apple will be forced to recognise the GMB for collective bargaining purposes

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Murphy speaks for first time since his failed attempt to block only Jewish candidate standing for NEC two years ago

Former Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy says he is 'disgusted' by party's failure to tackle...

A former Labour Cabinet minister has spoken of his "disgust" at the party's failure to tackle its anti-Semitism problem.

www.politicshome.com

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Conrad Landin

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6 years

Well, that's that. Just finished my last day after three and a half years as the Morning Star's industrial reporter. As of tomorrow, I'll be the Star's Scotland editor - based in Glasgow. Thanks to everyone who's helped me, entertained me, exasperated me since July 2014. Onwards!

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7 years

Protesters now chanting: "Shut down London, bring down the government", "Tories out, justice in" "Theresa May, shame on you" #GrenfellTower

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Last week Labour general Secretary David Evans wrote to constituency party officers: “There will be a number of protests and demonstrations taking place over the weekend. Elected representatives have been given strong advice not to attend any of these events…”

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7 years

Uber's petition is an embarrassing, cynical PR stunt seeking to make a popular cause out of disrespect for the law and workers rights.

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8 years

Gove, Actually #brexitfilms

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NEW: Labour registered supporters to be referred to NEC if they've branded other members "traitor, scum or scab"

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7 months

And it’s gone

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8 years

Margaret Hodge, the aggressively pro-Remain MP whose constituency massively voted to Leave, now trying to skewer Corbyn. Is this satire?

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BREAKING: 60 electricians occupying canteen at TCR Crossrail site after Laing O'Rourke attempted to move union rep off site - @unitetheunion

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Huge standing ovation for Corbyn #upc2016

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Labour spokesman tells me that no action is being taken against Lord Sainsbury over £2 million donations to the Lib Dems.

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6 years

Fierce response to Czech spy story from Tom Watson:

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1 year

@BenKentish Have a word with yourself.

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Constant campaigns to ban things and create new criminal offences are a cheap way for politicians to look busy, but they are a symptom of a political class in Scotland which has precious little ambition other than to justify its own existence.

Scottish Greens

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The overwhelming majority of people across Scotland have had enough of disposable vapes littering their high streets and polluting their communities. That's why @GillianMacMSP is calling for action.♻️🚮

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3 years

If it's true that Sharon Graham has won the Unite general secretary election, fair play to her and massive congratulations. Whatever MPs & clueless political correspondents said, Unite's election was always about the future of organising in the workplace and not the Labour party.

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To all talking about the #newsnight Corbyn/Kremlin backdrop, remember when the programme produced image of Corbyn wearing "Make Britain Great Again" cap without mentioning it was photoshopped? Understand viewer complaints appealed to highest level at BBC but totally fobbed off

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It’ll go higher @RMTunion @RMT_Scotland @GMBScotOrg @UniteScotland @unitetheunion @GMB_union @UCUGlasgow

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7 years

Can we have a Venn diagram of people who insist Uber drivers are self-employed, and those who now say they drivers are being "sacked"?

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2 years

Aslef picket line outside Polmadie depot this morning, where Avanti West Coast drivers are out on strike for the first time in this dispute. They’re joined by trade unionists from across the Glasgow labour movement #aslef #aslefstrike #CostOfLivingCrisis

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Many thought Trade Union Act would be end of national strikes. It's actually provoked one of biggest ever mandates:

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NEW: Royal Mail workers vote to strike - 89.1% Yes vote on a threshold-smashing 73% turnout

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NEW: train drivers' union Aslef nominates Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leader. (Nominated Corbyn last year too.)

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Post workers from across Britain have marched on Mount Pleasant

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BREAKING: @SouthernRailUK bosses email managers saying that notorious "strike back" posters targeting RMT should be "destroyed immediately"

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2 years

Normal country where both MPs and journalists respond to the Prime Minister's biggest crisis of leadership so far by foaming at the mouth over a backbench independent MP, who dared as leader of the opposition to offer the British public a genuine choice. #PMQs

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It’s not the case that Labour metro mayors have not focused on rail ownership. In fact Steve Rotheram is boldly bringing *rolling stock* (the most private part of the current system) into public ownership, so people “treat these trains as if they are their own - because they are”

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5 years

Seeing some of the replies, sir, I must clarify that I, Conrad Landin, sir, am not Matthew D'Ancona, sir, nor a former editor of the Spectator, sir, and nor has Jeremy Corbyn, sir, made it impossible for me to vote Labour, sir.

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3 years

Masterclass in putting the case of workers in struggle to the public from @HazelJN here. Solidarity to British Gas engineers fighting for their terms, conditions and livelihoods.

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Scenes from the @RMTunion picket at Glasgow Central this morning #RMTstrikes

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Nothing like an online clothing retailer which subjects workers to security checks when they go to the loo, alongside other abuses #thanksitsASOS

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Over 100 post and telecoms workers down at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital in support of the #JuniorDoctorsStrike

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NEW: Royal Mail workers vote to strike - 89.1% Yes vote on a threshold-smashing 73% turnout

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1 year

Seeing lots of outrage about age discrimination but none at all that one of Scotland's most experienced and successful trade union lay officials, a leader of the Glasgow women's strike, is being dismissed from standing for office on the basis of a "poor interview".

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There were two other contenders, but Shona Thomson did a poor interview, I'm told, and Declan McLean was considered far too young.

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Crowds in Cambridge chanting "Where is Theresa May?"

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Chris Leslie's constant dining out as "former shadow chancellor" makes me wonder if Helena, the Australian supply teacher who took my Year 6 class for two classic weeks in 2004, is now conducting a world speaking tour on how she transformed the lives of 30 unruly 11-year-olds.

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Really impressive stuff from both @RMTunion 's Mick Lynch and @MaryBoustedNEU on #Peston tonight. With the media doing a pisspoor job of explaining why workers are so angry, it's welcome to see union leaders comfortably and articulately explaining the background of their disputes.

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Stanislav Tomaš, a Czech Roma man, died earlier this year after a police officer knelt on his neck. It happened shortly after Derek Chauvin was convicted for George Floyd’s murder but justice for Stanislav is a distant prospect. The new issue of @newint is on the Roma of Europe

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"This is the state of capitalism in Britain at the moment," says @RMTunion general secretary Mick Lynch. "They've recruited a set of security guards who were told to turn up with handcuffs and first aid training." #pandoferries #PandO

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Harris says we have too many pundits and too few reporters, which is entirely true. But his article still spectacularly misfires. [thread]

Lionel Barber

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MUST read on modern journalism, polarisation and speaking truth to power | John Harris

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@RachaelBurford Emerged? Wasn’t the picture published by a newspaper, which you should credit?

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3 years

This is huge. Solidarity to all the pickets and their families, and to their researcher Eileen Turnbull, without whom this wouldn’t have happened today. And in memory of Dessie Warren, framed by the state, killed by his imprisonment, and left to rot by Amnesty.

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SHREWSBURY PICKETS WIN AT COURT OF APPEAL Convictions are quashed after 48 years. The working class miscarriage of justice is finally overturned. Well done @Shrewsbury24C @publiclawcentre and everyone who has fought for justice for so long. #ShrewsburyPickets

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Protestors have entered Kensington Town Hall

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The “driverless” buses over the Forth Road Bridge will have a “safety driver” sitting in the “driver’s seat” throughout. And bus conductors return. Good! Curious how a technology feted for reducing staff costs and strike leverage will be doubling both. From today’s Guardian:

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This article is utterly depressing. Our employment rights in this country are so weak. If you want your health - and public health - to be at the mercy of your boss, do nothing. Otherwise join your union and organise your workplace.

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Today is International Workers Memorial Day, when workers and their unions vow to remember the dead & fight like hell for the living #IWMD

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McDonnell: "Education is for life, it's not a commodity to be bought and sold. That's why our ambition is to scrap tuition fees." #NUT17

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#NewProfilePic from the Athens hotel with wallpaper that matched my shirt

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@KevinASchofield That’s a briefing, not a scoop

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Wild applause at Britain's most moderate big union when delegate asks Tom Watson why Blair still in Labour after recent comments #Usdaw17

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Our beatiful little tiger, comrade Harley Davidson, left our world this morning. She meant everything to me and Kirsty and we will miss her so much. Goodbye Harley, have a good prowl and yowl in the sky tonight.

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It was appalling to see @CommunityUnion oppose the anti-fascism motion at STUC Congress yesterday, for the sole reason that it noted that “the far right is also attacking LGBT+ communities by targeting Drag Queen Story Time events” - which is objectively true. #stuc23

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Unison president and Labour NEC member Wendy Nicholls says she will face down any attempt to depose Corbyn at the NEC #undc16

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John McDonnell accuses party chiefs of a "rigged purge" in suspending Ronnie Draper but not Lord Sainsbury

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4 years

The rules explicitly say you are allowed one daily exercise of judgment.

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6 years

Against practice to name spokespeople surely, but dear god, the fact that this is considered a controversial statement...

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The Press Association has named Seumas Milne as the Jeremy Corbyn spokesman who said that the history of the UK intelligence agencies is "problematic"

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This is why you should join a union, kids

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