"What does it mean to say that I pay a monthly rent to access part of my (extended) mind – as I do when I sign a two-year contract for a Google phone?... Should I have a say in how my extended mind is designed?..." ✒️ @wstronge.bsky.social buff.ly/i33mtvT

Don Mark Ruffalo Parera

HPC data shows the FTSE 100 CEO just over two days to earn the median UK worker’s full time annual salary. Average CEO pay is £4.4m — 113× the median worker’s salary of £39,039. With long-term wage stagnation, how can this possibly be justified? highpaycentre.org/fat-cat-day-...

Alcanzamos un acuerdo con sindicatos para ampliar los permisos por fallecimientos y cuidados paliativos. Despedirse y llorar sin fichar no solo es un derecho, también es sentido común.

Good news from Mexico: The government will: "incrementally trim the working week from 48 hours a week to 40 hours per week by 2030. If passed, the official working week limit would be reduced two hours a year starting in 2027" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

1852: morning prayers, no talking, working hours reduced though! Employer: we are going to need one heck of a productivity boost "to compensate for these utopian conditions".

This report is coming out very soon. It was pursued and led by our CADA Network of scientists, tech workers and other STEM-related practitioners. It was inspired by 'The Big Con' book by @rosiecollington.bsky.social & @mazzucatom.bsky.social. It's a fantastic piece of work!

this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.

NEW RESEARCH: Givers and takers - to what extent do private companies benefit when they donate to political parties? The findings are stark. Link to study here: autonomy.work/portfolio/gi... Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Explainer:

Finished this little book from 2017 by @nafeez.bsky.social and it's really insightful. I'd love to read an updated version, or another book on EROI's relationship to political volatility in 2025.

At a time when patriotism can feel as as contested as ever, this is a bloody lovely ode to so much of what we love about Britain from @sofiejenkinson.bsky.social in @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Well worth a read 👉 renewal.org.uk/blog/mr-blob...

Our new #UBSHub podcast series exploring 'Public Luxury' has launched ⏳ Here's a taster of an upcoming episode with Hugh Smith from Camden Council talking about their approach to #UBS at the municipal level👇 Listen to the first episode: buff.ly/AWMYSVo

Almost half of all Scottish workers — 1.3 million jobs — could shift to a #4DayWeek in the next decade 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Our latest report, commissioned by Scottish Government, analyses the potential to reduce working time across the country 👇 buff.ly/BScxBf7

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Major hikes in food prices are baked in. What should we do about it? Quick explainer:

This is tonight in London! What reform does the UK need around: Media Big Tech Democracy A LOT to cover. Free wine and soft drinks as standard. Reserve a spot here: actionnetwork.org/events/forum...

Forum 2029 keeps on developing! Onto the next one: in person in Bethnal Green on the 16th!

Labour could find the money it wants without raising taxes. This is austerity by amnesia | Randeep Ramesh

As far as real-world final bosses go....

TWO new upcoming Forum 2029 events: 1) Public services: ending austerity logics Ft. Anna Coote (New Economics Foundation), Jamie Driscoll (Majority), Luke Fletcher MS (Plaid Cymru), Abby Jitendra (Joseph Rowntree Foundation) actionnetwork.org/events/forum...

Did Not Happen of the Year Awards have never usually been cleaned up by a single post, however... In 3rd place: tin of instant coffee In 2nd place: Cabbie who is also sociologist of HNW individuals And in 1st place, drumroll please, the seat on the tube "no man" confrontation

🚨BREAKING HMRC missed out on around £47bn in taxes — from errors, avoidance and evasion— according to its annual "Tax Gap" report, released today. Here's why that is likely an underestimate, and why the real gap is likely to keep on growing... 🧵1/8

"With every fraction of a degree of warming, the UK will experience hotter, more dangerous heatwaves. That means more heat deaths, more pressure on the NHS, more transport disruptions, and tougher work conditions." We published 2 papers on exactly this, back in 2023...

NEW REPORT: 'The New Deal for Working People: Extreme Heat' 🌡️ Two-thirds of the UK workforce could find themselves working in heat waves above 35C by the end of the decade❗ Coverage in the Daily Mirror👇 buff.ly/t53m0hr

NEW REPORT:

remembering the few times the extractors broke at one restaurant i cheffed at, and the owner wouldn’t close despite it being over 40 degrees in the kitchen

NEW: "Calls to implement legal maximum temperature that Brits shouldn't work above. A report by the Autonomy Institute warns that two-thirds of the UK work force could find themselves working in heat waves above 35C by the end of the decade." www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Post-lavoro, un’utopia di libertà jacobinitalia.it/post-lavoro-... An interview with myself and @wstronge.bsky.social in Jacobin Italia.

This is an excellent intervention - nice work all involved👇🏻

As others have noted, this is very good on the developing neo-Thatcherite political consensus. Tomlinson is particularly strong on the bad history that underpins much of it

Excellent takedown of the incoherent reheated Thatcherism of Southwood, Bowman et al.

This piece by @jimtomlinson45.bsky.social is an important intervention that I’m really pleased to have published - a thorough dissection of the bad history underpinning the neo-Thatcherite “Foundations” project (which has unfortunately found acceptance on parts of the centre-left)

This is an excellent critique of recent conservative thinking on the economy: renewal.org.uk/articles/bui...

Let me get this straight: the Cass review wasn’t peer-reviewed yet was relied on by the government for major policy decisions - but now a critique of that review has been peer-reviewed and published, giving it more authority. Will government now be relying on this for policy? We all know the answer.

4 games I'd give 10/10

👇🏻Reserve your ticket to see Clive and other great speakers discuss common sense policies for food, water and energy reform: actionnetwork.org/events/forum...

While people struggle to pay bills, Thames Water bosses pat themselves on the back, racking up debt, dodging responsibility & passing the cost to us. They profit, we pay. It's not enough to just stop bonuses. This only gets fixed with public ownership. www.ft.com/content/1f6d... #thameswater

🚨Forum 2029 Launch: Why we need a new progressive policy platform and the case for housing reform 🚨 📆 Weds 4th June, 18:30 (London) 📣 Danny Sriskandarajah, Neal Lawson, Zack Polanski, Beth Stratford, Sarah Nankivell Sign up: buff.ly/AzeeSZ7 #forum2029

Elon Musk vowed to cut almost a third of the annual US federal budget ie $2 trillion Doge’s website claims $170bn in savings FT investigation shows only a sliver of that figure can actually be verified US Treasury data has so far shown no drop in government spending www.ft.com/content/0854...

🚨 NEW SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 We're excited to have Jamie Driscoll join us for our #forum2029 panel: 'Public services: ending austerity logics' on Weds 2nd July (Online) 🎉 He'll be alongside Anna Coote (NEF), Cat Hobbs (We Own It) and Luke Fletcher (Plaid Cymru) 📣 Sign-up now: buff.ly/OdPLdhF

For anyone who's just seen Yvette Cooper talking about the immigration white paper, I set out some of the evidence and facts here. [1/?] www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...

England’s water is appalling — and so is the politics keeping it privatised. Labour can’t win back trust and beat Reform whilst cosying up to the same profiteers who’ve bled our rivers dry. My latest in @gonuj.org: time to clean house. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨 Forum 2029 Launch: Why we need a new progressive policy platform and the case for housing reform 🚨 📆 Weds 4th June, 18:30 (in-person, London) 📣 Danny Sriskandarajah, Neal Lawson, Beth Stratford, Sarah Nankivell Sign up: buff.ly/oXp1HlX #forum2029 buff.ly/j21h9fi

What could public luxury look like in practice? 💭 Phil Jones envisages a world of shared tools, collective kitchens, ambitious infrastructure & aesthetic freedom 📈 On the blog for our #UBS Hub👇

🚨 'Forum 2029: Building a living standards policy platform for the UK' 🚨 The UK needs a strong living standards policy programme, but it has yet to emerge 🕙 Join the conversation at our seminar series this summer 👇 buff.ly/j21h9fi