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Jack Phipps @jackphipps.bsky.social · 19h

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

The invective that Daisley hurls at Muslims he would have hurled at my great-grandparents when they came here and indeed much of it is still true of the ethnic group he slobbers over. 'Aggressive integration policies' do not work in France and would diminish Jewish life here in the UK.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 1d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

An astronaut, looking at the Earth: “Wait, it’s all social care obligations?”
Behind them, another astronaut, drawing a gun to shoot them in the back: “Always has been.”

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 6d

thinking of everyone emerging tonight on this horrible day, our community is strong and this is our home

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 6d

"I hear again and again that the Israelis – the Jews – had it coming. Knowing allusions to Jewish influence, Jewish power. Stereotypes of Jewish cruelty."

Written before today's attack on a Manchester synagogue. It's the kind of piece I never thought I'd write.

www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

The 7 October attacks changed what it means to be Jewish in Britain

The war in Gaza has exposed a level of anti-Semitism I didn’t realise was there

www.newstatesman.com

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you to the GMP officers who, it seems, prevented the terrorist hurting anyone else. And thank you to the CST volunteers who protect British Jews every day. For those doing so, wishing them an easy fast.

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Jack Phipps @jackphipps.bsky.social · 7d

THANK YOU CONFERENCE #Lab25

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 8d

Standing room only at the Trans Solidarity Rally earlier
#Lab25

@nadiawhittome.bsky.social speaking in front of two @labour4transrights.bsky.social flags

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Miriam Mirwitch @miriammirwitch.bsky.social · 21d

Join us for our annual Socialist Societies reception at Labour Conference 2025 in Liverpool!

Get to know campaigners from across our brilliant Labour affiliated SocSocs and hear from some fab speakers.

See you there!

🗓️ Tuesday 30 September
⏰ 18:30 - 19:30
📍 ACC Hall 2D

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 24d

Hundreds of content moderators are being laid off by TikTok.

Now they're unionising and speaking out.

@cwunews.bsky.social

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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 25d

Let’s cut through the bullshit pretence around free speech. At best that is motivated reasoning, at worst it is hate-mongers using liberalism they despise as cover while laughing at our free society.

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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 25d

Every individual, every organisation and public body committed to peaceful politics in the UK needs to stop posting on it. You know the mantra: The best time to do that was months ago, the second best time is now.

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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 25d

Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 29d

"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress

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GMB Union @gmb.org.uk · Sep 9

Abi Young is our Health and Safety rep at Birmingham Airport.

In a year she has:
📈 more than doubled union membership
✈️ improved working conditions

We couldn't be more proud that she's won H&S rep of the year at #TUC25

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Jack Phipps @jackphipps.bsky.social · Sep 6

Excellent @gmblondonregion.bsky.social School Support Staff Conference today in Euston. GMB - the union for school support staff!

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Politico @politico.com · Aug 29

California lawmakers reach an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app-based drivers to form unions.

This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.

California reaches deal with Uber, Lyft to allow gig worker unions

The deal brings Uber and Lyft on board with a pathway to unionization for ride-hailing workers after the companies spent years fighting against the idea.

www.politico.com

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Jack Phipps @jackphipps.bsky.social · Aug 7

That’s a very odd way to describe cones

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · Aug 4

No, empty homes won't be enough to fix the housing crisis. It may be a vote winner. That doesn’t make it right.

A tepeat for the weekday morning crowd

No, empty homes can’t solve the housing crisis

It may be a vote winner. That doesn’t make it right.

jonn.substack.com

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Jack Phipps @jackphipps.bsky.social · Jul 28

RECOGNITION AGREEMENT SIGNED

Delighted to announce GMB recognition agreed with Medirest at Barnet Hospital - giving hundreds more NHS outsourced workers the structures they need to negotiate on pay and conditions

@gmblondonregion.bsky.social @gmb.org.uk

Three people in front of a table, one of them signing a piece of paper

Five people in front of a table, one of them signing a piece of paper

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Jack Phipps @jackphipps.bsky.social · Jul 27

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
#lionesses

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International Transport Workers' Federation @itfglobalunion.bsky.social · Jul 15

📈Seafarer abandonment is rising in 2025!

Over 2,280 seafarers have been abandoned aboard 222 vessels so far this year - a 30% year on year increase - with $13.1 million in unpaid wages.

www.itfglobal.org/en/news/seaf...

Seafarer abandonments cases surge by 30% in 2025

Over 2,280 seafarers have been abandoned aboard 222 vessels so far this year – with $13.1 million in unpaid wages and a 30% year-on-year increase in cases New figures released today b

www.itfglobal.org

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 3

P&O Ferries boss got pay rise of at least 55% after firing almost 800 workers

Delayed 2023 accounts show Peter Hebblethwaite was paid £683,000 despite public outrage over dismissals The boss of P&O Ferries was paid £683,000 in the financial year after the cross-Channel operator outraged the public and parliament by dismissing almost 800 mainly British workers. The windfall, revealed in much delayed 2023 accounts seen by the Guardian and ITV News that report more than £90m of annual losses, represents a pay rise of at least 55% for Peter Hebblethwaite, who was the company’s highest-paid director. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Jun 14

All governments are imperfect but they are NOT "all the same".

The lazy trope that "it doesn't matter who you vote for" isn't just false; it feeds the nihilism on which the radical right prey.

It's like a burning tyre, coating everything in acrid smoke, choking off any meaningful democratic choice

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jun 13

Compare and contrast the plutocratic US government's grotesque help for the richest... with social democratic Britain. Like night and day.

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