It may not dominate headlines, but the new Employment Rights Act could shape more lives than most “crisis” stories. A major shift in how the UK treats workers, unions and insecure employment. Stephen McNair reports

laiddocuments.senedd.wales/sub-ld17657-... Only primary and not secondary schools

Former UK chancellor George Osborne joins OpenAI Lucrative appointments for failed ministers. They aren't hired for technical know-how but to exploit political links acquired with public money. What is the return to taxpayers for that investment? Remember former PM Cameron lobbying for Greensill.

As a Muslim Ahmad Al Ahmad stops the shooting on Bondi Beach lets remember why guns are legal in the USA. It isn't to keep you safe, it's to keep you unsafe and too distracted by the endless violence to worry about bigger things.

NHS data reveal 'collapse' in GP jobs in England Availability of GP jobs remains far below the level seen in 2022/23 Plus continued lies by ⁦‪Labour‬⁩ about 2600 new GPs in ARRS highlighted with just over 1100 FTE in post but other GP jobs gone!

The Ten Year Plan already had the prioritisation of UK graduates🤷🏻‍♂️ Why was this part of a negotiation with Resident Doctors? If it was already a plan in June why wasn’t it already done? Taking it back & then ‘giving’ it again isn’t an offer! www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

NHS data reveal 'collapse' in GP jobs in England Availability of GP jobs remains far below the level seen in 2022/23 Plus continued lies by ⁦‪Labour‬⁩ about 2600 new GPs in ARRS highlighted with just over 1100 FTE in post but other GP jobs gone! www.gponline.com/nhs-data-rev...

Farage says, "I didn't wear them (masks) last time, and I won't wear them this time" and dismisses mask mandates as "rubbish". Here's Farage in 2020. Man's a dangerous idiot.

Will you join me in signing this TUC backed petition? www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/pr...

“Four unidentified military style drones breached a no-fly zone and flew towards the flight path of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane at sea near Dublin Airport late on Monday night” Next time the meeting must be in a NATO country … www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

There are thousands of trained doctors in the UK right now — unemployed. Not because they’re unnecessary, but because the government refuses to fund the NHS roles we desperately need. If we have the doctors, we can fund the doctors. So why won’t they? youtu.be/jN42hYQsehU?...

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

🚨Now at almost 85,000 signatures. Let’s keep going! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of ‘Letting the Country Down’ With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...

Chancellor launches consultation on co‑operative growth createsend.com/t/t-8AEB4DBE... Great opportunity with this GB wide consultation. @Cwmpas_Coop

I doubt we’ll see much on School meals in the upcoming budget, but here’s a little wish list, just in case there’s any spare change knocking about DfE Increase the per meal funding! Keeping funding at £2.61 is essential punishing Small schools, Infant schools & schools in areas of high deprivation

Amazing journalism! Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d... Dynamite

Amazing journalism! Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d... Dynamite

Terrific

Spot on. Excellent read open.substack.com/pub/annpetti....

How can Co-ops be made visible in Business Schools? They teach/research ref state-owned enterprises & not-for-profits, but not Co-ops. Why? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/next-meeti... register for Eventbrite: Senedd Cross-Party Group for Co-ops/Mutuals Tickets, Wed, Dec 3, 2025,12:00 @Cwmpas_Coop

Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Don’t forget impact upon care homes

Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Don’t forget impact upon care homes

System: conta.cc/43GwmGR “the PAC does ‘not have confidence’ that DH+ is being realistic about the scale of the challenge.”

£41 million! That’s what Post Office has just agreed to pay Fujitsu to keep using the faulty Horizon IT system. It's a slap in the face to all those wrongfully convicted Post Office staff. Join others demanding Fujitsu is finally held to account. Sign now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ho...

GPs - ‘Lazy, laggards’ 1.3million appts take place in General Practice each day 20 x more than A&E 3.5 x more than hospital out-patients 5million more appts each month than 2019 Wes Streeting has decided he doesn’t need GPs Let’s see if people agree www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Awful impact of climate crisis www.facebook.com/share/r/1VyL...

School meals provide the benefit of economies of scale to feed a population of kids more economically, consistently and better than when most families have to separately plan, buy, prepare and package breakfast, lunch and/or afternoon snacks for school kids to eat before, at or after school.

If there’s a free alternative, I’ll eat healthily’: how Sweden devised brilliant school meals Source: the Guardian share.google/Fx2bcxjasqe1...

Awful events happening in Cebu, the Philippines www.facebook.com/share/r/14LZ...

So, I think I’ve got this right. Pacifist grannies holding a cardboard sign are terrorists, but Yaxley Lennon is a freedom loving journalist. Glad the judge was concentrating on the facts in the parallel universe he occupies. www.bbc.com/news/article...

AOC shows up with massive food truck to feed TSA workers at LaGuardia Airport since they are not getting paid. There’s also additional fresh food for the community that federal workers can come and pick up if needed. 🙌🏾 #CityHarvest

Great NHS story. sochealth.co.uk/2025/09/06/s...

Could Katie Lam identify the London schools where "more than three-quarters of children don’t speak English to a serviceable school standard". Well done to @davehillonlondon.bsky.social for giving Lam + CPS the chance to substantiate this claim at the Tory fringe www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-ka...

Robinson, Musk and Badenoch are all part of an industry of grievance, a machine designed to spread hate which now operates across the British right – from respectable print outlets to wild-eyed online fascists inews.co.uk/opinion/dont...

Private Eye nailing it.

EU concerns that UK planning bill may breach 'level playing field' rules on environmental law in Brexit deal www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.

people chant "we stand with you!" as Letitia James tries to speak outside a courthouse in Virginia

Congratulations to the hugely talented @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social - shortlisted for the Editors’ Editor 2025 Award by the British Society of Magazine Editors - and prized guest @bylinepodcast.bsky.social Subscribe here to @bylinetimes.bsky.social subscribe.bylinetimes.com

My column in the @ftweekend.com: Keir Starmer is in trouble because he has not been serious about governing, and the best way for him to turn things around is for him to become serious:

Reeves considers adding 1p to basic rate or raising higher or additional tax rates. There must be no tax rise for the bottom 50%. Must tax dividends & capital gains at same rate as wages, restrict tax relief on pension contributions to basic rate only. HMRC hasn't collected over £500bn since 2010

Reach today concluded its six-week redundancy consultation, with around 300 journalists being pushed out. Staff at the Mirror have now voted in favour of strike action. It looks very much like their jobs are being replaced by AI. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution. This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A-level English, voluntary work: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik “let’s talk about all the ways integration happens, and whether, in fact, it is even something that is on offer for all, not just migrants”

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

A friend in Corvallis, Oregon sent me this one 🤣 #NoKings

I will remind people, every single Billionaire in the UK gets an average of £320,000,000 of benefits a year, mostly in tax they allowed to avoid. It ain't that Disabled Person on Motability ripping you.

Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future’, Bank of England chief says news.sky.com/story/brexit...

Reform surge reflects the failure of social democracy nation.cymru/opinion/refo... need to take on board the failure of social democracy to deliver the material improvements people want and need”