Rewatching the Nightmanager (Mum wanted to watch it before second season) and Elizabeth Debicki really is playing the same character as she goes onto in Tenet

Always a better player when not playing

Lineker still being a self-centred scumbag. Good to see. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

This piece calls for an end to drive for net zero and increased defence spending; but we will still get people saying that Unite is the ‘most left’ union

Just James: I consent James’s dream timeline: I consent Sir Isaac Newton: I DON’T

Dreaming of benefit scroungers West Ham getting relegated. that’s the real West Ham way.

Here's the book: shorturl.at/nO8Cc

As for only criticising white identity politics, perhaps people should read what I actually write, beginning with my book *Not So Black and White* kenanmalik.com/2022/04/13/n...

Is Jackson Lamb the main character in the latest Slough House book? If so, fitting as I probably have the same attitude to my job

what am I up to these days? actually, I'm developing a parenting app called Denethor

please fund my startup which provides political advisory services. yeah it's called Wormtongue.

going to start an addiction support service and call it Smeagol

I think there was a relatively major conflict that had an impact on emancipation

Brining this energy into 2026

TBH I love the TARDISes inside each other and the Doctor vs Master camp-off. Obv everything happening in the Newton Institute is a pointless bore.

Yep, same fallacy as landlords. We'd arguably be much better off if all farms/rental housing was owned by a handful of large conglomerates who can ruthlessly compete and achieve economies of scale to drive down prices.

Odd to not mention Phillipson as a possibility

Drury saying the main story from tonight is utd changing formation. Not talking about what actually happened in the game, what a tedious and limited man

What is the *funniest* Trump misread? To me, it is Ian Leslie writing that he has an "almost physical horror of violence". He wrote that this year!

Advert promoting lotr coming back to cinemas and it’s used two stills from the Hobbit, smh

Have to say, this was a year where the TV schedule could've actually used a Doctor Who Christmas Special.

Yh I really disagree with this, just because most parting of the ways with employees like the below get decided by settlement agreements- and there are just not that many people in these jobs so they wouldn’t significantly increase pressure on the tribunal system even if they did all put in claims

All here and much more: shorturl.at/TfMGG

This is very on brand as a Christmas Card from a GMB branch

When this stuff first came out a couple of years ago I remember some member of the pundit class saying ‘he had us all fooled’ and it was like, honestly, speak for yourself

OK I'm outta here for Christmas, but I'll leave you with this *quiz* on Christmas hit songs, which starts easy(ish) and gets progressively harder, and is really just an excuse to indulge in trivia Anyway here it is, answers are on pages 2-3, Merry Xmas and sayonara! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

You’re a fuckin’ bottler Incey! You cannae handle the stage, can you? You are a fuckin’ bottler

Saw this in a march report from 1998, thought it was a neat example of language changing (and older Football being a bit more sophisticated than some give it credit for) now this would probably be called inverted fullbacks etc.

On the subject of class interests, those of doctors are slightly different than most other NHS workers

Listen to Owen, Owen is well-informed

Somewhere in between I think

I’m fairly ambivalent about the UNISON result, but seeing thing like this from Labour people is always funny

My only thoughts on Blue Labour are that it’s odd that a group supposed to be about getting back to the authentic working class (tm) is that it‘a odd it never has anything interesting to say about organised labour. Without that it’s just deviationist identity politics

There's no sign that government has any strategy for shifting Britain's growing dependency on imports, be it for refined oil, gas, petrochemicals or renewables equipment. Herein lies the reality of energy insecurity.

The UK government has spent 2025 firefighting, making emergency takeovers in steel and now bailout investments in chemicals. This isn't industrial policy, it's cleaning up after the market has failed workers, communities and national energy and economic security.

Unions are welcoming £120 million government investment to keep the ethylene plant open at Grangemouth. It's a big improvement on standing by as the refinery closed down earlier this year. It keeps workers in jobs and essential infrastructure going, but with high costs too🧵

The BMA are offering their own staff just 2%. All as they are taking their members out on strike over a deal worth more. It's hypocrisy: pure and simple. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Fair play to the lad, he’s actually read the rulebook labourlist.org/2025/12/unis...

I’ll be on News at 7 pm on the BBC Scotland channel discussing the UK government bailout of the INEOS Grangemouth ethylene plant which has saved thousands of jobs at the cost of £120m of public money.

Fantasy politics Minimum service levels are totally impossible to implement. And more broadly: how do you force someone to work who doesn’t want to? Are you going to sack swathes of doctors?! Bullshit. There is no substitute for the hard graft of engaging in productive industrial relations.

Largest union in the country, largest women’s organisation in the country, but apparently the most important thing is what it means for some bloke who’s probably going to be out of a job in a year to two anyway (It won’t impact Labour or government in a tangible way)

Labour Mainstream winning this hotly contested field so far. ‘Please Mr UNISON Sir, please back our Burnham leadership bid, please’.

I think it’s great when Labour Party officials show just how little they understand their own movement

Bigger margin than expected. big drop in turnout for the bloc that voted McAnea in last time (was 63,900 last time)

All the bad UNISON takes incoming

Irrelevant now, but I had some fun reminding the Tories that trade unionists know the law and workplaces yesterday (missing is me yelling at the shadow minister for being a patronising arse, which is audible in the longer clip…)

Just voted to pass the employment rights bill one more time. Time for the Lords to get with the programme and pass it tomorrow

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Letter that the government have managed to get business organisations to write to them, publicly stating that, despite the difference of opinion on abolishing the unfair dismissal cap, they want the Lords to pass the ERB now. Do we think the Lords will A) Agree B) Continue being difficult

With Resident Doctors set to go ahead later this week, it is worth revisiting this piece by @m-ttpa.bsky.social from August on how Britain's broken industrial relations system is an obstacle to negotiation and compromise