Never wanted Belgium to win anything more in my life

‘They did it on pure Will, pure Will’. Tuchel channelling Nietzsche there.

Quite satisfying seeing Ancelotti go out in a knockout tournament when his team probably deserved to go through Given it’s normally other way round.

:L www.ft.com/content/2f53...

Australia’s lineout was reliable enough I feel they could have gone corner and set up a drop goal there

The TUC has today (Friday) launched a new skills initiative bringing together unions, employers, and education providers to tackle Britain’s deepening skills crisis. www.tuc.org.uk/news/tuc-lau...

EXC Taking money from other departments to fund the Defence Investment Plan will end up *costing* the UK 10,000 jobs, according to a new analysis of govt figures. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I think the new James Bond film should be MI6 making James Bond redundant and we see him trying to get a new job at his old age having not adapted to the modern workforce and having to do a meeting on Microsoft Teams or check into a WeWork to hot desk without killing anyone

The People’s History Museum has announced a series of guided tours of its new exhibition, ‘On the Line: 100 years of strikes and solidarity’, led by curator, Mark Wilson. Find out more and book your place here: sslh.org.uk/2026/07/02/o...

If Northern Rock still existed it would collapse again

I think England will go on and win this match, but their defensive short comings this tournament show how much they miss the Southgate era defence and how moronic everyone say the squad was on course to peak for this tournament was

This was ten kinds of shite. jacobin.com/2026/06/mili...

Ooff that’s tight.

Resident doctors in England accept government offer on pay and jobs

Burnham rn

Capitalism has sure showed ITV one here; up the scrum!

‘That's typical of the military mind, isn't it? Present them with a new problem, and they start shooting at it.’

What a fantastic run of games

At an event where another Labour MP with no trade union links is pretending they have them. They don’t even need to, just own that you’re from a different part of the labour movement

Again and again and again, a person losing their job at a Post-92 uni is every bit the equal of a person losing their job at a Russell Group uni. They might even be their collaborator. Or their editor. But hierarchy gets headlines.

5 years ago I spent a week in Nottingham meeting families to talk about maternity failures at the local hospital. What I learned investigating Nottingham will be confirmed today. The families have done amazing work to force the truth. They shouldn't have had to www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Finally, eballoting for trade union statutory ballots (and workplace balloting for IA)

Once you notice that Frazer Hines only plays Jamie as Scottish in the first scene of each episode you can never unnotice it.

With the 2015, for instance, the Tories went into the election with the public expecting a hung parliament, including voters on the right believing Red Ed could end up PM. And yet many former Tories still backed Farage. That exposed a severe limitation of Cameron, but wasn't interrogated.

who remembers Al Carns?

So, since everyone is online - I am reupping this with a new announcement: Mrs O is coming as my co-driver. Any support massively appreciated, I'm still in awe of everything B'sky has done for this.

But what happened to the much needed battle of ideas???

Thought there were some interesting details in this, but it’s mostly pretty poor and limited by it being a sop interview so there’s no pushback on some of the statements. Favourite was the Atlee government fully satisfied nhs and defence, which I’m sure was news to Bevan when he resigned

This is silly www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

A slightly earlier than usual Inside Politics, given that at some point today either Starmer will announce his resignation timetable or things will start falling off the government:

Pension nerd question - lots of talk about long term decline in UK pension fund demand for gilts due to DB fund closures. BUT there’s a rapidly growing pool of DC assets, a reasonable chunk of which will start to be annuitised in the not too distance future. Won’t that create demand?

Did he say see you next Tuesday

Ciaran’s right, and this place is naturally quite anti-union

Not to go all Roy Keane but what are people expecting a union that represents oil and gas workers to say on this? It's their job to make any argument which advances the interests of their members - that's their job!

Don’t think this impacts one w au or the other tbh

#EventsDearBoy ROAD TO THE TOP 40 #1 NEW KRYPTON (2009, DC) The Superman equivalent of No Man's Land - a year long (more in this case!) reset of the status quo with opportunities to tell different stories and focus on minor or new characters. With mixed results this time

Now also sharing the contents page for An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class due to popular demand!

Working on the final proofs of An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class! Exciting and a bit frightening. Hitting the shops in October.

I will drop the leadership bid I have been unable to launch if you give me a job isn’t a strong negotiating position

I thought this was quite good www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Andy Burnham has a new website. What's that for I wonder?

we are broken, so very broken

You have to laugh, really:

can't believe cotton and transport not getting a mention, and not engaging with the liberal streak in organised labour, smh. Poser

they just go to a different school

Man’s not hitting these vibes with that reference m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujpt...

So many of them are bent

Reform will do anything to prove it loves trade unions, apart from ask one to represent its staff