Simon
@simonsapper.bsky.social
Husband, father, brother, trade unionist, broadcaster, writer, Brentford-till-I-die and lover of loud shirts. Views my own. Reposts out of interest not endorsement. He/him. www.makes-you-think.com
Latest pod from #OrganisingForAChange has dropped. Jay Kerr from #NoSweat on international solidarity, ethical trade and consumer boycotts. Listen now at bit.ly/o4ac
November 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Latest pod from #OrganisingForAChange has dropped. Jay Kerr from #NoSweat on international solidarity, ethical trade and consumer boycotts. Listen now at bit.ly/o4ac
I just learnt that over £100,000 of NHS funds have been wasted on defending bullying instead of paying frontline staff fairly.
Sign the petition to demand that Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust investigate how their CEO, Kevin McNamara, treats NHS staff.
Sign the petition to demand that Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust investigate how their CEO, Kevin McNamara, treats NHS staff.
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I just learnt that over £100,000 of NHS funds have been wasted on defending bullying instead of paying frontline staff fairly.
Sign the petition to demand that Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust investigate how their CEO, Kevin McNamara, treats NHS staff.
Sign the petition to demand that Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust investigate how their CEO, Kevin McNamara, treats NHS staff.
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
If you’d have told me two months ago that I would sing live & solo in front of people, I would not have believed it possible. But #katherinestrohmaier at @citylit.bsky.social certainly made the “Singing With Confidence” course live up to its name!
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If you’d have told me two months ago that I would sing live & solo in front of people, I would not have believed it possible. But #katherinestrohmaier at @citylit.bsky.social certainly made the “Singing With Confidence” course live up to its name!
Good news of course but let’s face it, it should never have happened to start with……
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
DWP to reassess hundreds of thousands of cases in carer’s allowance scandal
Damning official review finds many unpaid carers left with huge debt because of government failure
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Good news of course but let’s face it, it should never have happened to start with……
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Shame on #DPD and props to @louisehaighmp.bsky.social
for speaking out
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
for speaking out
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labour must back delivery drivers sacked by DPD, former cabinet minister says
Louise Haigh criticises delivery company over treatment of workers who spoke out against pay cuts
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Shame on #DPD and props to @louisehaighmp.bsky.social
for speaking out
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
for speaking out
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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That Reform councillor who told @lbc.co.uk that young people are paid too much? Turns out his companies have tribunal judgments against them for unpaid wages
Story by @mellino.bsky.social for @tbij.bsky.social
Story by @mellino.bsky.social for @tbij.bsky.social
George Madgwick: Portsmouth councillor failed to pay tribunal awards
George Madgwick has multiple tribunal rulings against him for unpaid wages
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
That Reform councillor who told @lbc.co.uk that young people are paid too much? Turns out his companies have tribunal judgments against them for unpaid wages
Story by @mellino.bsky.social for @tbij.bsky.social
Story by @mellino.bsky.social for @tbij.bsky.social
A loud warning bell…….https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/ultra-processed-food-linked-to-harm-in-every-major-human-organ-study-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A loud warning bell…….https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/ultra-processed-food-linked-to-harm-in-every-major-human-organ-study-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Getting to the truth behind the forthcoming #nhs jobs cull - spoiler alert: there’s no cause for celebration. A really good/important piece 👇
bevfitzsimons.com/2025/11/13/n...
bevfitzsimons.com/2025/11/13/n...
No cause for celebration
I’m old enough to remember Neil Kinnock’s 1985 speech decrying the grotesque spectacle of a labour administration sending around taxis to hand out redundancy notices to its own workers. This …
bevfitzsimons.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Getting to the truth behind the forthcoming #nhs jobs cull - spoiler alert: there’s no cause for celebration. A really good/important piece 👇
bevfitzsimons.com/2025/11/13/n...
bevfitzsimons.com/2025/11/13/n...
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
When are politicians, of all parties, going to accept that you can’t have an effective custodial scheme on the cheap?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Police ‘urgently’ looking for prisoner freed by mistake in London
Algerian man, 24, ‘released in error’ from HMP Wandsworth two days after stronger checks for jails were brought in
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
When are politicians, of all parties, going to accept that you can’t have an effective custodial scheme on the cheap?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Interesting piece: if Tesla collapses Musk’s entire empire could come crashing down because of the way he’s structured the companies’ finances.
This Is How Tesla Will Die
The vultures are circling the tech giant.
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Interesting piece: if Tesla collapses Musk’s entire empire could come crashing down because of the way he’s structured the companies’ finances.
New episode! Practical steps to counter divisive, destructive narratives in the workplace, from Reform amongst others. Our guest is #HopeNotHate Trade Union Liaison Officer Matt Collins, who guides us through their invaluable analysis of Reform supporters. #Unmissable. Listen now at bit.ly/o4ac
Organising For A Change - the podcast for union builders
We’re fed-up, frustrated and impatient. And you should be too.
Unleashed from obligations to employers. Unfiltered by gobbledegook. Uncompromised in what we say. We ask the vital questions that go t...
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
New episode! Practical steps to counter divisive, destructive narratives in the workplace, from Reform amongst others. Our guest is #HopeNotHate Trade Union Liaison Officer Matt Collins, who guides us through their invaluable analysis of Reform supporters. #Unmissable. Listen now at bit.ly/o4ac
Organising For A Change, the podcast for union builders, is back for our fourth series. Listen now at bit.ly/o4ac
Organising For A Change - the podcast for union builders
We’re fed-up, frustrated and impatient. And you should be too.
Unleashed from obligations to employers. Unfiltered by gobbledegook. Uncompromised in what we say. We ask the vital questions that go t...
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Organising For A Change, the podcast for union builders, is back for our fourth series. Listen now at bit.ly/o4ac
A great piece on why #co-design is so important and how incalculable the damage of ignoring this is.
bevfitzsimons.com/2025/10/27/c...
bevfitzsimons.com/2025/10/27/c...
Computer says no
My kids scoff when I remind them about the early days of the internet at home, about their older sibling only being allowed half an hour a day on a dodgy dial up connection. It wasn’t that long ago…
bevfitzsimons.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A great piece on why #co-design is so important and how incalculable the damage of ignoring this is.
bevfitzsimons.com/2025/10/27/c...
bevfitzsimons.com/2025/10/27/c...
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An elected MP, Reform’s Sarah Pochin says there are too many Black and Asian people on TV - so plain racism - and the coverage of it is buried. Silence and ignorance is complicity, causing lasting damage. When we see racism it’s what we do next, individually and collectively, that matters.
October 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
An elected MP, Reform’s Sarah Pochin says there are too many Black and Asian people on TV - so plain racism - and the coverage of it is buried. Silence and ignorance is complicity, causing lasting damage. When we see racism it’s what we do next, individually and collectively, that matters.
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Make Racism Disgraceful Again 💯
We must make racism disgraceful again. This kind of shameless ugly inadequacy from Pochin should be career-ending, not career-enhancing. Honestly… the Little England nastiness is repulsive.
October 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Make Racism Disgraceful Again 💯
Someone needs to read the room/smell the coffee/get with the programme….
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Tebas vows La Liga will try again after plug pulled on Villarreal v Barcelona in Miami
Javier Tebas vowed La Liga would try again after plans to play Villarreal v Barcelona in Miami fell through
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Someone needs to read the room/smell the coffee/get with the programme….
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
