Liz Truss is now dunking on Andy Burnham

Woo

But seriously who is Tina Farrelly and which of the thresholds did she clear to her a nomination?

The British class system

I wrote about the noticeable Vibe Shift around Keir Starmer's viability as PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

I think this shows the impotence of Labour Mainstream. CAC is 8 seats, 6 of which are essentially union seats (card vote at conference where unions have 50% of the vote). Has to resort to a petition instead of being able to have a chat with the relevant unions leftfootforward.org/2025/09/two-...

Remember a few weeks ago when we were heading for another season of discontent? Heady days man, heady days

:L morningstaronline.co.uk/article/heal...

Black Ferns v England is going to be an incredible Bronze Match

Morning Star: 14 HEALTH UNIONS SNUB ‘DEFUNCT’ PAY REVIEW BODY #TomorrowsPapersToday

Interesting article on the Trump clampdown but it underestimates McCarthyism, which didn’t just target Hollywood, universities & the civil service but involved a plant-level purge of trade unionists at a time when the power of organised labour was at its height.

Feel like an interesting THIGMOO archetype we've lost is the major union leader associated with the Labour right who is the left's bete noire as the autocratic boss who suppresses true radicalism by playing "ducks and drakes" with his delegation (though I think none ever stuck around in memory long)

Tesla dispute becomes longest strike in modern Swedish history as management refuses to accept the “basic elements of Swedish industrial relations” www.industriall-union.org/tesla-disput...

grifting 24/7

I’m not saying Keir Starmer is in trouble, but Labour members are pretending to be aware who Lucy Powell is, something not even most of the Powell family bother to do.

Now we come to the crux of matters- the employment of children on heritage railways

Glad to see some good old fashioning band wagoning- after all, political violence can’t be too bad if it gives an Oxford student the chance to write a piece in the Times

I just think appropriate response to the protestors today is to Orgreave them, and if that doesn’t work then Peterloo them.

If anyone reading this would like to donate, I should add, it would be very welcome: localgiving.org/charity/brox...

Profile now on BBC4 about Mandelson missed the bit when he was sacked by the @tuc.org.uk GS Len Murray www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Ffs

1909, political levy changed to opt in 1912, changed to opt out 1927, to opt in 1946, opt out 1984, in 2025, out Sometimes the rhythmic thud of history just gets very tiresome

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It's a twat fest for self regarding twats

Really pleased to have published this incisive first-hand account of the class dynamics of asylum hotel protests: renewal.org.uk/blog/screami...

That's two of them - one reason why the Shadow Cabinet coup was so daft is that so many of them really didn't understand he did just have a different theory of political legitimacy to them, so many had no sense that 'Bennite' actually means something.

And I don’t think there can be doubt now that if he somehow manages to enter one he will fail as miserably as before

Last one for me

And, in the end, the lad fucked off first

Been saying for a while that Gary Lineker has been and for our wider media eco-system

"The smaller pods – the indies, the up-and-comers, the weirdos with a dream – are all drowned out. They’ve got no real chance of competing with the ‘Rest Is’ industrial complex and its glossy PR machine" @finlay24.bsky.social on state of British podcasting👇 thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/10/d...

Watching the first Steptoe and spotting bits of set that turn up in Doctor Who - the stairs from Feast of Steven, the statue that's in Marinus and The Chase. No, I shouldn't get out more.

I too want organisations to give me money

Lucy Powell losing the deputy leadership contest would be quite apt given her career is as a specialist in failure

Hang in there, man.

TUC Congress is debating a "Wages not Weapons" motion from UCU and RMT - which would reverse TUC policy calling for higher defence spending. New motion says "ever-higher spending on arms risks signalling approval of a wider drive to war, in the dangerous context of renewed great-power rivalry."

Debate has reared its head at TUC Congress, on Wages not Weapons motion. Quite enjoyable. www.tuc.org.uk/Congress2025...

The Conservatives used to properly get class, then they memed their consciousness into mush

I’m gonna go with Osborne. He was a smart guy and extremely effective but his cynicism was to understand the bad fiscal dynamics of the aging population and decide that the thing to do was to spare the Home Counties and squeeze the rest of local government. I find this to be a damming chart.

Oh ffs

Lads, we need to start the first WW1 battle-of-Jutland space combat SF

A man who knows

today I was directly trolled by a general secretary, and it was good chat tbf

I’d also distinguish Blue Labour from just … trade union right

Lion & Unicorn on Angela Rayner: She was often compared to John Prescott (sometimes in her own acts of self-promotion), but before Prezza became deputy PM he had been a proper union official, he had served 27 years as an MP, and he had led the Labour group in the European Parliament. (1/?)