“Myanmar, where appalling atrocities, including crimes against humanity, often go unreported and unpunished.”

This article a good summary of the rental market: it's all about a landlord being so scared of the changes they've sold 1 of their 9 flats, then about two-thirds in you finally hear from a renter who hopes the changes will stop her & her child being made homeless again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'don't kick Israel out of Eurovision, the arts aren't political' variety.com/2025/film/gl...

The cost of privatisation is high. £250 per household per year to shareholders of key services since 2010. We haven’t seen an amazing increase in the quality of services, indeed in the case of water companies there has been a decrease.

Strange how legal experts keep concluding the same thing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.

It doesn’t take long for the shine to come off the far right when people can see what they actually do with power.

Happy Workers’ #LaborDay! At 1,000+ events today, America’s unions are celebrating the workers who make America run and make our labor movement strong. We’ll keep fighting so ALL working people get the freedom, fairness and security they need. Join us: WorkersLaborDay.org

“This is a government that is by, and for, the CEOs and billionaires,” the AFL-CIO’s President Liz Shuler said.

This absolute turnip lives in Mississippi. He's LITERALLY an economic migrant. Does he have ZERO self-awareness? Does he just think nobody will notice? Or because he's an entitled white man, does he perhaps believe that he doesn't count?

Just gave $25. More labor organizers in office! Let’s build on Zohran’s win in every state!!!

A fantastic win for workers at the ILO. Huge amounts of work still to do, in the face of entrenched opposition from some employers and a few governments, but the simple fact of bringing most of the governments of the world with us gives us a massive opportunity ✊ www.ituc-csi.org/global-win-f...

Have you tanked your economy? Was your birthday parade an embarrassment? Did the richest man in the world allude to you being a nonce? Did you lose your bid to challenge a sexual abuse & defamation lawsuit? If so, you need WAR! 𝑊𝐴𝑅 - 𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟

I am not the target market but did nobody think to say "don't you think there's already enough football, lads?"

Russia was kicked out of the G8 in March 2014 exactly BECAUSE it launched its war in Ukraine by invading and forcibly annexing Crimea.

Today marks nine years since Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right extremist, a terrible loss to those who knew and loved her and to politics. Zero lessons were learned though and the far-right continues to be pandered to. With more political assassinations in the US it all feels too familiar.

Again this is a lie/dementia - Trudeau was not Prime Minister of Canada until the following year

Fantastic! And the excitement in the room was palpable (a lot of work goes into these things, and a lot of good flows from them, so that might sound geeky but it's an important thing to get excited about).

More broadly, I think Reform should be pressed to show their hands a bit and make clear what they actually believe on immigration - because at the moment they are carrying together groups who support (a) less than now, (b) pre-90s levels, AND (c) Powellism.

As this year's International Labour Conference #ILC2025 comes to a close, here's my contribution the debate on the interrelatedness of "Jobs, Growth & Rights", welcoming the UK government's workers' rights agenda & how it supports the ILO mission for social justice.

A rare article in which there's a question in the headline to which the answer is, as @davidgerard.co.uk notes, "basically, literally, yes." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It is a lot easier to resist authoritarians when they are coming into power, than after they have consolidated it.

Welcoming the ILO report on Jobs, Rights and Growth at the ILC today, while sharing TUC statistics showing that workers' rights are good for growth. #ILC113

DiSK leader Arzu Çerkezoğlu describes how the state interferes in independent unions, including by deleting the records of members to claim the union is unrepresentative. They even deleted her! #globalrightsindex2025 “The global rights index is a statement of resistance!” she adds.

What’s particularly alarming is: liberals in the parliamentary party won’t even rouse themselves to properly push back against this stuff when it comes from a doomed and wretched leader who has taken them to third in the polls!

A gay man, who died by suicide as a result of his sexuality, made one of the single biggest contributions to espionage and ending WW2 years earlier than would have otherwise been the case. Alan Turing is only one of hundreds of examples as to why the intelligence services should support Pride.

The TUC is proud to have supported this complaint at the International Labour Organisation. We have serious concerns about migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, including those involved in preparing for the 2034 World Cup.

Extrapolation works both ways, dumbass.

Breaking News: The center-left candidate Lee Jae-myung won South Korea’s presidential election. His conservative opponent conceded defeat. https://trib.al/l4oD4sI

Workers, Employers and exiles Government of Myanmar united in condemnation of the junta and asking for support for the “Article 33” intervention by the ILO that calls for action against the illegitimate regime for violations of fundamental rights

Yeah, they really should stop invading Ukraine /s

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

This is evil.

Abdullah, who suffered a three-year "arbitrary detention", was a 2022 World Cup media manager “I believed you were being racist... It took me so long to understand they are bad people. “During the World Cup was the worst. It felt like total defeat" www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

Given how unpopular Starmer is this is quite a reflection on Farage and Badenoch.

📣 At the ETUC Executive in Belgrade, unions backed a strong resolution on Gaza: welcoming the EU review of its Israel agreement, urging firm follow-up, condemning rights violations, and calling for a permanent ceasefire and just peace. Read more 🔗 www.epsu.org/article/etuc...

The IEA, the dark money pressure group that inspired Truss’ mini budget, is (finally) under investigation by the Charity Commission

What I find sort of funny is that he seems to assume that the whole of Europe is dying to come to the UK. In GDP per capita, the UK is just about the EU average, and much lower if you remove London. Countries that were major senders (e.g Poland) have caught up and have much higher growth than the UK

I'd say this is quite a courageous line for a, checks notes, Telegraph columnist to take

14,000 babies will die in Gaza in the next 48 hours if Israel continues to prevent baby food aid from reaching Palestinians. There is no question, no nuance, no possible justification. We must do everything we possibly can to stop Israel from committing such atrocities #r4today

Call me Andrea Dworkin, but I just think it’s corrosive that there are quite so many references to sexual acts in the British right’s response to this deal.

“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!” - UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues. “Brexit Betrayed!”

Too many people at the top of the BBC think that they should be competing with the private sector not providing an important thing that the market can't. Should focus on providing detailed coverage of 'what's in it?' that someone with the reading age of a seven year old can parse.

Huge endorsement for Starmer's EU trade deal as Badenoch says it's not what she'd have done. Thankfully.

🌍 "No one should be denied their voice or rights simply because they crossed a border in search of work" Luc Triangle at the @ilo.org #FairRecruitment Initiative event The ITUC urges governments & employers to uphold equal rights for all #MigrantRights starting with fair & transparent recruitment.

Grow up Chris.

It’s official: Moderate, pro-EU Nicușor Dan defeats far-right, pro-Putin George Simion in Romania’s presidential election, 54%-46%