#RECT up and running - an exciting set of afternoon workshops engaging young and early career educators in Internationalism, transformative conversations and sustainability #NEULearning

44% of the population of Denton and Gorton are ethnic minority, the majority of them born in the UK. Reform's candidate says those people aren't British and are liable for deportation. It's a bold electoral strategy: vote for me and I'll throw you into the sea. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Oxfam’s annual survey of global inequality reveals that since 2020 the collective wealth of the (by now) 3,000 billionaires grew by 81% which would be enough to eradicate global poverty 26 times over - you read that correctly, 26 times over www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The English teacher in me loves this cartoon… From Benjamin Slyngstad.

We can’t go on like this. In just two days, the average FTSE 100 CEO has made a median workers full time annual salary. The right calls this “wealth creation”. It’s wealth extraction. Time to tax the rich. @highpaycentre.bsky.social highpaycentre.org/fat-cat-day-...

Our call for papers on organising as workers in higher education for the Scuola Democratica conference in Rome in September is out www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/panel/organi...

If access to bank activity for suspected fraud is a legitimate exercise of state power so is access to bank activity for suspected tax evasion.

Excellent news - the one and only Meera Syal is supporting #together! Time for building a movement of unity over division, and hope over fear. Sign up here: togetheralliance.org.uk 📍 Join us on Sat 28 March in #London @togetheralliance.bsky.social @lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social

If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight. Use the Quick Vote option. Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

Dick Mackintosh🌹#StopTheWar The Reform/Tories say the only way to pay for the enormous cost of billionaire tax dodgers that fund their political parties is by cutting welfare for the poorest in society.. #bbcqt

Rather proud of Nottingham for these signs

Heading home after the amazing Grace Petrie, singing political songs AND doing top notch stand up - such an amazing performer. Missed the show? NE friends you can catch her in Hexham on Thursday and why wouldn't you?

Farage press conference in brief: Farage: Here's some scary sounding things I believe about migrants Reporter: Do you have any evidence? Farage: I strongly believe the scary things.

Jeffrey Boakye giving an amazing presentation to our @neunion.bsky.social #NEUPrimaryLiteracy Conference - educators open horizons for young people

@danielkebedeneu.bsky.social opening our @neunion.bsky.social #NEUPrimaryLiteracy Conference, praising educators working in a system that at times seems to be working against the interests of our young people!

I am intensely relaxed about the eventual demise Peter Mandelson (again!)

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

"Do not insult us by calling this a humanitarian crisis. Do not dignify this by calling it a war. Let us tell the truth. This is genocide" @danielkebedeneu.bsky.social from the @neunion.bsky.social at #TUC25

Not that you need reminding of this anniversary @mindssconeblank.bsky.social , but always worth a share anyway!

And the trick they play they say the flag is yours Flown at one world cup and two world wars A tawdry cross daubed across any old white rag I’ll never swear allegiance to the flag

Voters' concern about immigration tracks the number of immigration stories in the tabloids, not the number of immigrants. Farage is a one-trick pony: without immigration he's got nothing. To beat Reform, take the national conversation away from immigration. Labour is doing the opposite.

Nigel Farage Is Promoting Free Speech In America – While Reform Bans Journalists In The UK www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/ni...

@LePapillonBlu2 Maya We are living in the dumbest timeline in human history. 😳

Any fool blithely saying they’ve now had a bit of a think about the ECHR and we should leave - is part of why we’re now stuck in the mess of Brexit, being told by the far right to hand our human rights over to them to administer. FFS people. Have you learned nothing from the last decade of failure?

‘Reform’s populist act cracks when the right people tell the truth about them’

Thanks @mitchbenn.bsky.social for a great show this afternoon - the greatest tribute to the great Tom Lehrer, the greatest of them all. Cheers, you're doing him proud!

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Keir Starmer was quick to condemn Kneecap, but strangely silent on Moygashel www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Attila the Stockbroker as entertaining as he ever is! #NEU #Gig@TheGala

Heather Wood leading The Women's Song at the NEU Gig@TheGala - great stuff!

A rapt audience listening to the incomparable Heather Wood at the NEU Gig@TheGala

Here's a wee link to the poster the London Tube banned thanks to Transport for London. See it Say it Censored 👉 www.kneecap.ie/download-ban...

Great solidarity from Irish band The Scratch who are boycotting Radar festival 2025 because of Bob Vylan being removed from the bill. The duo were dropped as headliners after their performance at Glastonbury, where they showed their support for Palestine. #SolidarityIsAVerb

"While Western media debates what was said on stage at Glastonbury, more than 200 lives have been lost in Gaza this week alone. Kneecap are holding up a mirror to Britain’s hypocrisies — and that reflection is making a lot of powerful people very uncomfortable." plinth.uk.com/blogs/magazi...

£600 million less funding means 12,400 fewer staff, bigger classes and stretched SEND support. Vote now in our consultation. 👉 NEUActivate.com. Let your colleagues know you’ve voted and encourage them to do the same. #FundFairPay #SaveOurSchools

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

This Saturday... get along if you're free, should be a great day!

Davey Douglass launching his new book "The Colliers of the United Association of Durham and Northumberland" marking the establishment of the first miners' union 200 years ago!

Eamonn Donnelly, head of #ForsaCivil kicks off this morning. "Conference is about more than passing motions. It's about having the conversations, and getting to know what's in people's minds. To reset us to face the challenges we're going to have in the Civil Service."

Ready for the unfurling of the new 200 Anniversary Commemorative Banner celebrating Hepburn's Union, The Colliers of the United Association of Northumberland and Durham. Badges and books for sale in the Welfare Hall, Beamish Museum