We have long supported the calls of Myanmar's unions for UK companies to end complicity with the trashing of labour and other human rights by the junta. This disturbing but essential analysis (by the Business & Human Rights Centre) says exactly why everyone should have listened to them all along.

So remember that ECHR has only stopped deportation 13 times! So perhaps Farage, and the Tories want us to leave the ECHR because they want an end to the follow 14 articles!

Hungary's Viktor Orbán is looking for ways to keep power if he loses next year’s election, Bloomberg reports. He is considering shifting into the presidency and turning the largely ceremonial office into Hungary’s dominant political post, an idea he raised after meeting Trump.

I'm sure the free speech brigade will be out in force to defend our trade union colleague, CGT leader Sophie Binet, who is facing an investigation - prompted by a complaint by an employers' association hilariously named 'Ethic' - for calling CEOs quitting France "rats leaving the ship."

Remember: if a legal opinion is sound then it matters not how “great” or “distinguished“ the lawyer is. And if it is not sound, it is not saved by the lawyer being “great” or “distinguished“.

“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.” Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners? www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

Farage gets voted down on leaving the ECHR… for now. Ed Davey quite rightly tears a strip off him. But really, the corrupt leader of a racist party threatening to remove our protection from abuses of power by our own government, should be the biggest red flag going. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

‘A colony of the US’: Argentinians contemplate future after Trump-backed Milei coasts to victory

Federal workers keep America’s national parks beautiful. Threatening to fire thousands of those workers will destroy these national treasures and leave working families—who are already hurting from the government shutdown—scrambling to pay their bills. https://bit.ly/48Hlf3M

The very fact that MI5 - and the security services generally - are accountable to our domestic courts flows from the ECHR decision of Malone. One of many ways that Convention has benefitted our legal order.

Pledges to cut regulation are constant unless there's just been a disaster/failure. Then everyone calls for more regulation.

Why does Nigel Farage want us to be like Argentina?

Just brace for what we will see in terms of US interference in European electoral politics soon

NEW What the Chinese spying case witness statements reveal The Crown Prosecution Service appears to have made at least one serious error, while the government's position now makes sense By me emptycity.substack.com/p/what-the-c...

Neither Labour nor the Conservatives have made Farage bear any of the political costs of Brexit that they themselves have endured in terms of intra-party divisions and wider public discontent.

Uncooperative Federalism is here! open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

AUSTRALIA: Collective agreement coverage soars to record 2.8 million workers ieuqnt.org.au/collective-a...

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

It would at least explain why they (and the Tories) are keen to leave the ECHR.

So the argument is that authoritarian governments using slave labour and crushing dissent is good but democratic countries freely debating ideas is bad?

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Let's get "because that's what they are" on a t-shirt.

Antifa Activist Michael Heseltine Shifts Overton Window Leftwards

Duh!

And it's actually true. Immigrants make all cities Great.

"The Burmese army bombed a Buddhist celebration and killed dozens of people. The Burmese army bombed a crowd of people who had gathered to celebrate the Buddhist festival of lights combined with an anti-government demonstration. At least 40 people, including children, lost their lives"

Struggling to find much humour in the likely next leader of the Conservative Party cosplaying the National Front of the 1970s.

Watching the ICJ case on the right to strike. Govt of Panama speaking, and appear to have based their argument on the idea that confirming an international right that was held to exist until 2012 will UNLEASH HELL (even though it failed to do so before 2012).

It's interesting that the hard/far right are all calling for us to withdraw from the ECHR, given it's been used in the past to reinstate workers fired for 1) being a BNP member and 2) publicly opposing same sex marriage. In short, the ECHR protects your right to be despicable - they ought to love it

Labour, just wondering what you think the nice people from Reform and/or the Badenoch Tories will do with the sweeping new anti-protest powers you’re handing out to the police?

Maybe time for corporates to stop paying him £20k a pop for "inspirational" speeches? Heard of one school trust that paid him £10k *of taxpayer money* for one keynote...

“Lukashenko is wielding political prisoners as bargaining chips – trading their freedom for international concessions while continuing repression at home.”

Such an embarrassment. The fact she'll never have any power makes it barely worth noticing her, but whenever you do she's doing something abysmal or moronic. She richly deserves the anonymity to come.

One hates to say “I told you so”, but… Solidarity with Argentinian workers suffering because of this deluded maniac and his global cheerleaders.

“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.