Raf worked for a cafe chain popular with MPs & journalists. He won his case, but the company went insolvent. Then the directors reopened one of the branches One of the directors wrote to him saying "go fck yourself" & he was glad he "didn't get a penny" www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Rosie tried everything to get the £6,000 she was awarded. She even spoke to her MP & the employment minister - they didn't help. Her boss has the cash. In videos he brags about his expensive cars & has a Rolex that's worth more than what he owes her. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

This is a huge story. Wage theft is rampant across the UK and the meagre legal protections meant to contest it are not even being enforced, with bosses laughing about how they just ignored judge’s rulings.

A great read on the Tony Blair Institute (TBI), whose last summer party was held at McKinsey's HQ and co-hosted by ex-McKinsey current chair of NHS England. It includes important info on the revolving door between this tech and petrostate-funded think tank and Starmer's government, including - 1/2

Cool, so what happens when they graduate and their access ends. All this is doing is turning students into a guaranteed revenue stream for the company.

Congratulations Thea!

What a surprise that a batshit libertarian ideologue has destroyed another nation’s economy. on.ft.com/3VrEZk5

What an absolutely terrible decision.

UK higher education is in a risky position. In 2023-24, 732,285 students, or 23% of the total student population, were from overseas. Russell group unis take an increasing share of students. With a lack of endowments and lack of government support, the sector could collapse. on.ft.com/3KbSguB

Something about the way the retention of data has come to be seen as an absolute necessity. Retention of data to the exclusion of thinking, or the patterns of forgetting and remembering. Keep a seed bank, let the ecosystem die. Use and abuse of history for life.

Zarah Sultana’s behaviour is looking increasingly like a public meltdown rather than a sectarian fight. She’s taken unilateral action twice. The claims of either side don’t even matter because their actions euthanised our Party before it even started, making it the laughing stock of the right.

This person has just simultaneously destroyed whatever political credibility they might have had in their career and killed an emergent socialist movement in one fell swoop. Well done. It’s fucking disgusting.

Zarah & Corbyn imploding their own initiative before it even became a political movement did us all a favour. Fuck that style of politics. It was never viable and died in 2019. We need economic populism purged of the pathological tendencies of the old left - a socialism for normal people.

the skewer seems loosening out of the middle of the world

1 year exactly since the release of my debut book w/ @versobooks.bsky.social. In February '24 I wrote down in my journal my goals for the release - audiences reached, countries travelled, connections made etc. This 1st year wildly exceeded all my expectations, I am so so grateful. What's next? 1/4

Exhibition opening soon! Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History explores the development of trade unions since the 1825 Combination Act, through years of struggle, triumph, defeat, and resilience. With TUC Library @londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide. The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.

Dear Americans: Come study in the UK. It is a far safer country (no guns), tuition is a third of the cost (and only 3 years for a BA), it has with a much more worldly outlook (than the US), and is just a train ride from Europe.

What the fuck

On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

"How long until Mandelson ends up in a high-paid consultancy somewhere? While another washed-up former Westminster insider ends up in Washington?" @zackpolanski.bsky.social reacts to the resignation of Peter Mandelson, appointed by Keir Starmer as ambassador to the US.

This is absolute peak NYT opinion piece

This over and over again ad nauseam.

He might have just been sacked, but Mandleson's fingerprints are all over the latest cabinet reshuffle. On this week's episode of THE CURVE, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and @nickdearden.bsky.social discuss the big push for a US-UK tech alliance. LISTEN NOW: patreon.com/macrodose

Wow Starmer did something right

Not just Israel’s leaders are responsible for the ge*noc*de but also all those who support them. The Gaza Tribunal held in London last week heard evidence of direct British government involvement in Israel’s crimes:.

I was the guest on @macrodosepod.bsky.social this week alongside @nickdearden.bsky.social to talk about Trump's upcoming visit to Britain, why data centers are a bad deal, and the massive ICE raid on Hyundai's EV plant in Georgia: open.spotify.com/episode/3mZD...

Three Postdoc or Senior Researchers in Labour Geography at the University of Zurich (UZH) on the “Underemployed” jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds

When multiple Nobel Prize winners warn that AI could be the end of humanity you’d expect a strong government response. So… where is it? aistatement.com

In which a cognitive scientist discovers that the definition for ‘domain-general cognitive ability’ on *ScienceDirect* is AI-generated slop, and completely wrong

One study concluded 70% of increased electric cost across US due to AI data centers. apnews.com/article/elec...

JFC

One of the biggest obstacles faced by my first-gen students is a fear of writing. Fear that they'll be called stupid or wrong. Fear that they won't use "smart" words. Instead of working through that fear, LLMs give them a way to never confront it, never overcome it, never learn. I hate it so much

Bluesky has gained lots of terminally online people, which means there are a lot more absolutely thick as pigshit posts out here.

it’s almost like all the attacks calling Mamdani antisemitic were vapid bad faith bullshit created by politicians with no policy plan other than smashing the “scary muslim” button

think this is sort of interesting as actually.....no you probably didn't need to do "more research" into it? you just had to trust the state and local authorities to know better than you when it came to vaccinating your child? not good that the internet has killed faith in institutions!

Incredibly grim seeing this shit. That hotel is literally 2 minute walk from my front door, on my way between home and my daughter's favourite park. Never have i heard local people talk about it, or seen anything to raise concerns about those living there

The prime minister is now using Palestinian statehood as a bargaining chip. Hundreds of thousands face starvation in Gaza. We need action, not bullshit.

It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you. Sign up at yourparty.uk.

It begins.

Fighting for humanity means fighting to destroy the Labour Party right now.

I thought my CV was looking pretty good the other week but then I stupidly glanced at other academics on research gate and those published in prestige periodicals and realised my “H index” or whatever is shite. Having access to all this information sucks, actually.

A pro-Trump AI bot network with at least 400 accounts has been uncovered on X, pushing positive messages about MAGA figures like RFK Jr. and Karoline Leavitt. But after the Trump-Epstein scandal, some turned on Trump allies.

How can this guy not win tbh

UK Higher Education is so broken that some of the richest and best institutions are preventing academics from applying for European grants because of “overheads”. They want us to produce research for the REF but can’t fund it. Wild.

this is wild

Happy to share the Early Career Paper Prize 2026 initiative @econsocjournal.bsky.social - publication in the journal 2026 and £1000 award. Two good things in one.

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Important thread! 👇