NEW The Kneecap prosecution collapsed because police and prosecutors did not take terrorism law seriously Where "a technicality" hides a fundamental error By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-kneeca... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...

I want to make it clear that UNISON is made of 1.4 million members, who have passed motions which directly oppose Phillipson's politics The decision on who to support was made by the Labour link Exec - a very small group of people. This does not represent the views of UNISON's members at large

I am in Labour Link in @unison.org.uk Who made this decision? Is this what democrac looks like in our largest trade union? It demonstrates what we know - the UNISON establishment supports Starmer's wishes wherever they lead. Andrea will review Labour Link. We need change at the top andrea4gs.org.uk

Labour Link members were not consulted when making this decision - a decision to endorse a transphobe, a zionist and someone who has overseen the erosion of our universties in the UK. There is a reason why I'm supporting @andrea4gs.bsky.social in this unison election for general secretary.

Get yersels down to the Village Hotel picket in Glasgow tomorrow, 4.30pm. big Jez will even be there. Go on. It will be class. Was at the picket below a couple weeks ago and was amazing to see the solidarity from across the city and hear the (mostly young) workers share their stories.

love when a paywall sounds like it’s drawing a gun on you

The U.K. is a police state

Join. A. Union.

ACADEMIC BOOK SALE I am moving and want to move less books if at all possible... Please get in touch if you are interested in the following titles (all prices include postage and I am open to offers)

"More than £18 million had been spent on consultancy" 😵‍💫 hey! Government! Regulate the use of consultancies! Sure, some *very specific* tasks cannot be done in-house and require external advice. But these consultants are taking over the basic running of universities. #UKHE

Solidarity with the Birmingham bin strikers who have just been told that Birmingham City council are going to make them redundant if they don't take a massive pay cut. @cllrjohncotton.bsky.social where are you??? Shame on you and Labour. This is an essential service and you are leaving it to ruin.

Interview request! If you work in the gig economy, or are falsely self-employed, I want to talk to you about how this kind of work affects you and your relationships with other workers - for an upcoming book on competitive individualism. Get in touch if that's you!

Look it is possible that Brendan O'Neill has still not been bullied anywhere near enough. It is possible the work has not even begun.

Currently being subjected to a classic Avanti West Coast triple threat - no air con, no power in the plug sockets and cafe closed. Might try the toilets and WiFi soon to see if I can get the full bingo card 🥳

"I was shocked to see one of the nurses who I worked with carrying my daughter... she was dead." This broke me. Dr Khaled Hamouda, Gaza surgeon, in tearful testimony to 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack,' the film they didn't want you to see. Full film, that the BBC dropped, from Zeteo: gazadoctors.film

I'm in the BBC! Talking about IMPORTANT INTERNET HISTORY! If you want more of this kind of thing, please stay tuned for my book's preorder link coming later this year.... www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Edinburgh will be on strike: Friday 20 June, to coincide with a university open day; and then on Monday 8, Tuesday 9, Wednesday 10, Thursday 11 and Friday 12. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404....

I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty. My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.

Higher Education plays a vital role in local, regional & national economies & in people’s lives in ways that cannot be counted or reduced to a narrow financial calculus. But our work is not valued at all. Just another big pay cut for all of us alongside the irreparable damage of cuts & job losses

PLEASE SIGN. On Thursday 8th May 2025, 153 academic colleagues at Newcastle University were summoned at short notice to meetings with Uni Exec Board, where they were told they have been placed in ‘redundancy pools’ with 38 of them to be laid off. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

HUGE day in this household 😭❤️ @safc.com @afc.co.uk

Trans brothers let's all join the Freemasons before the EHRC tells us we can't.

Legends only @zanyzaz.bsky.social 😎

Day two of the strike, and we've ben getting a lot of questions from students about the action. What's it for, why are we doing it now, and how can they help. So let's run through some Strike Questions! 🧵

Celebrating looking for 66 new colleagues while simultaneously holding redundancy talks with 59 existing colleagues and throwing into uncertainty the careers & jobs of hundreds of others. Stay classy, Colin, stay classy.

My old lecturer, my pal @zanyzaz.bsky.social and Mick effing Lynch are playing a gig together on 3 May. It's so niche and specific to my interests it's almost parody, but honestly, it'll be class and you should all come!

This is why “you want trans men to use the women’s restroom??” and posting pictures of big burly trans guys isn’t actually helpful. They don’t want trans men in the women’s restroom either—they just want to make it as unsafe and hostile as possible for us to be in public at all.

Attempting to ban trans women from using the women’s restroom isn’t about just making us use the men’s restroom—it’s about trying to make it so unsafe for us to use public restrooms that we disappear from public life.

'it's still surprising to hear that a 50 caliber rifle is being marketed to children' Although it should be obvious, it's always shocking to be reminded just how much the military and gun manufacturers have a grip on the film and videogame industries.

happy 5th anniversary to the best tweet of the last decade

Sign from yesterday

Transphobes are so transphobic that they think trans women with relatives in care homes wouldn't visit them.

Happy Easter

I'm quoting instead of reposting this only to insist you watch this with the sound on it is mandatory

Incredible 😂

Weird how these transphobes always seem to start talking about ethnicity innit

What we don’t need is our union modelling atrocious behaviour and giving our own bosses licence to copy in the process. Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social, that level of intimidation is bad for anyone’s well-being.

This letter to Douglas Ross is how staff find out which areas may face module reductions and that 700 people may be affected by the cuts! Staff receive no communication, courtesy or respect from executives at the University of Dundee. None. www.parliament.scot/-/media/file...

This is getting beyond a joke. My UCU friends and colleagues are furious about this dispute and rightly so. @ucu.org.uk @drjogrady.bsky.social get round the table!

Very proud of our committee and branch today ❤️✊🏻

The cuts to 632 posts announced by university executives hide behind the numbers. Every post is a person, a valued colleague. We share their stories, as part of our grassroots We are the 632 campaign #WeAreThe632 #SaveDundeeUni Up first is Anya who talks about how this will affect Dundee. 1/2

I was on Reporting Scotland discussing the Project Willow report into the future of Grangemouth after the oil refinery closes. Workers and unions are rightly sceptical. The future of green manufacturing it puts forward is far from guaranteed but they are facing redundancies now. Report at 6 mins.

a reminder that disabled people who chose to live with their partners, as all people should have the right to do, no longer qualify for any out of work benefits. their only crumb of financial independence is PIP. women trapped in abusive relationships under these circumstances have little to no hope