A historian I know and respect was illegally fired after being targeted by right-wing groups policing free speech. Please sign this urgent petition calling for Tom Alter's full reinstatement sponsored by the Committee to Defend Tom Alter @lawcha.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Research impact?
#highered #university

Labour needed Liverpool to go well. Labour also needs Manchester to go well for Kemi Badenoch! Indeed, this is more critical to Reform in many, many ways…

While some may not be as interested in CPC, understanding why the Tories continue to lose support is a HUGE issue.

In her Labour conference speech, Chancellor Reeves announced that the Government has so far recovered nearly £400m of funds from Covid fraud, and launched a new "hit squad" to investigate and recover money from fraudsters who exploited government contracts

79. American citizen.

Burnham's speech shifts beyond confines of PR to mass social housing, technical education, transport. "These are the ideas I'm putting forward. I think we need to debate them as a party. I've launched a debate on our direction." Adds: "I am here to support the government."

Labour 4 PR rarely so interesting

“There’s nothing more unstoppable than an idea whose time has come - and PR’s time has come.”

💬 @andyburnham.bsky.social

🌹 #Labour4PR #Lab25

Burnham says he is "speaking out for the thousands of councillors” and “mllions of good people who want a more hopeful direction for the future. “

Burnham says Starmer's Labour Party has "a climate of fear". People are suspended for liking tweets and losing whip. "You can't be narrow and shallow, you need to have everyone in play." It is less tolerant of debate than Blair.

“I want to see the people I speak to every single week embrace and have confidence in the democracy we have in this country. I think through electoral reform we can restore trust in our democracy”

💬 @rachelblakemp.bsky.social

🌹 #Labour4PR #Lab25

Burnham speech

- linked need for new political pluralism nationally (thru fringe’s ostensible subject of PR) with a newly tolerant big tent approach to party management (got biggest cheer on that)

- Ambition palpable despite protestations this is just a “debate”

- Bond market line finessed a bit

“I really do think that Proportional Representation is finally coming of age in this Parliament.”

💬 @alistrathern.bsky.social gives a shout out to the @labour4pr.bsky.social campaign

🌹 #Lab25

Sadly, not all the team that created the festivals are still with us. Ken Hulme died in 2010. Dick Muskett died at the end of last year. Remembered with great warmth. #GLCworkingforLondon

This was the poster for the second Jobs For A Change festival - here is the poster for the first one.

This is excellent.

Angry at insinuations that judges who granted or overturned Epping injunction were politically biased. I've known both Cons & Lab lawyers who've become judges. Whatever their previous politics they take seriously their judicial oath to do justice without fear or favour

A courteous but very impressive rebuke to Nigel Farage from the Bishop of Oxford.

"I heard no compassion in what you said...".

"I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities".

Do read.
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🚨 NEW on Substack, my post on the Weoley Castle Estate, Birmingham. As Neville Chamberlain proclaimed on opening Birmingham's 40,000th council home on the estate, it offered 'everything that science and ingenuity can provide’
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-weoley...

Immigrant advocate groups in Los Angeles gathered at MacArthur Park calling for a 24-hour community stoppage protesting against continued ICE raids.

#ice #immigration #protest #raid #losangeles

The curse of spellcheck. A hypocrite in the hypocaust.