"I am putting all the employers we bargain with – from Reform UK-run local councils to Wes Streeting’s Department of Health and Social Care – on notice: Unison will be fighting without hesitation to win for members. Our size and resources are without parallel among trade unions in this country. From this point on, those great assets will be geared towards transforming the lives of public-sector workers" Andrea Egan, new General Secretary of Unison #Unison #UKPolitics
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My warning as the new head of Unison: never again will we prop up politicians hostile to unions | Andrea Egan
I have been appalled by Wes Streeting’s attacks on resident doctors. The destructive right wing of the Labour party should know that this is a ne...
"In an interview with the Guardian, he said the rising overall welfare bill was “unsustainable fiscally and economically” That's absolute bollocks. What's unsustainable is the huge and rising inequality in our society. Invest in our young people and tax the greedy. #Inequality #Youth #UKPolitics Alan Milburn to review rise in youth minimum wage | Economic policy | The Guardian
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Alan Milburn to review rise in youth minimum wage
Exclusive: Blair-era minister echoes concerns about young people being priced out of jobs, in intervention likely to dismay Labour MPs
Nottingham City Transport has completed the rollout of all 62 electric single deck buses, marking a major milestone in the company’s transition to a zero-emission fleet. With the recent delivery of the final 14 buses, NCT’s entire city single deck fleet is now fully electric. #Transport #NCT #Nottingham #EVs https://www.nctx.co.uk/electric-bus-rollout-complete?utm_name=
“Today’s politics is tailor-made for him. Smiles leaking everywhere, mood music, the sales campaign that gets rid of the need for a product. Even the shiftiness. People like to be conned. It reminds them that everything is a game.” #JGBallard #KingdomCome #UKPolitics Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago | Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian
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Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago | Aditya Chakrabortty
The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living thr...
Not that I need an excuse! #Chocolate #Theobromine #Ageing Key chemical in dark chocolate may slow down ageing – TwinsUK
Key chemical in dark chocolate may slow down ageing – TwinsUK
"In the future it is possible that nature will evolve, and some fish may adapt to eat quagga mussels, but ecologists say Lake Geneva will never be the same. “We need to accept at some point, whatever is there – this is a different lake, now," #LakeGeneva #QuaggaMussels #Environment #Biodiversity ‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever | Invasive species | The Guardian
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‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever
The molluscs are decimating food chains in Switzerland, have devastated the Great Lakes in North America, and this week were spotted in Northern Ir...
Students from Ghana at UK universities say they are in danger of being deported after being stranded by their own government without promised scholarships or tuition fee payments. #Ghana #Students #Education
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Ghanaian students at UK universities face deportation amid funding crisis
Group asks Keir Starmer for help to persuade Ghanaian government to pay backlog of tuition fees and living allowances
Good article on the excellence on our body politic that is Nigel Farage. #Farage #ReformUK #UKPolitics ‘He was a bully at school, he's a bully now’: the long history of racism allegations against Nigel Farage
The Nerve
‘He was a bully at school, he's a bully now’: the long history of racism allegations against Nigel Farage
John Sweeney talks to the journalist and author Michael Crick, who confronted the Reform leader with allegations of schoolboy antisemitism over a d...
"..this is not a fight about a mildly mistaken edit where the gap between statements should have been made clear (and it should have been). It is part of a war on the UK and Europe and its culture" Richard Murphy #BBC #Trump #USPolitics #UKPolitics When will Labour tell Trump where to go?
Funding the Future
When will Labour tell Trump where to go?
As the Guardian has reported this morning: Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the BBC over its editing of a speech he made to supporters i...
Some wonderful nature photography from Nature's best science images of 2025. #Nature #Photography #Environment https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-025-03935-3/index.html