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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 21h

Annual cost of Eton school fees: £53k

Average UK salary: £35k

Guess which one the right-wing press is more concerned about?

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Ali Haydor @alihaydor.bsky.social · 12h

Workers deserve stability, not scraps.
No zero contracts. End of.

#FairPay #NoZeroContracts #JobSecurity #EndExploitation

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Paddy Magill @padraigpostal.bsky.social · 22h

'Rule of Law'.....well it was quaint while it lasted, bit like that 'Democracy' thing...

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Paddy Magill @padraigpostal.bsky.social · 22h

Well, in a Country where the most important economic sector ie the City of London specialises in off-shoring/private equity acquisitions and the rest, bit late to realise it might be why the rest of the economy is in free fall.

Paddy Magill @padraigpostal.bsky.social · 22h

The fact that AI will do away with such 'hard' subjects as Accountancy etc. seems to have literally passed most Politicians by...

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Paddy Magill @padraigpostal.bsky.social · 22h

I don't know, next it'll have been Jenrick himself telling press about all these no confidence in Badenoch letters going in....

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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 22h

📣 @cwaunion.bsky.social is calling on customers to drop T-Mobile USA by 15 November because of:
🚫Union busting
🛰️Partnering with right-wing billionaire Elon Musk
📉Supporting regressive Trump administration policies
⚠️Take action!👇
actionnetwork.org/forms/pledge...

Pledge to Hang Up on T-Mobile

T-Mobile is siding with the Trump Administration and far-right extremists like Elon Musk. It’s time for people of conscience to find a better phone carrier. T-Mobile is partnering with fascist Elon M...

actionnetwork.org

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Paddy Magill @padraigpostal.bsky.social · 1d

I think the word 'could' is doing some heavy lifting there, perhaps substituting 'will have' would fit better for Lord Sumption.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Ignore for the moment Bondi's seeming confirmation that FBI does have the pics from Epstein's safe and that's (one thing) they're covering up.

But take a step back and consider how inappropriate it is for the AG to wail bc someone said mean (true) things about the President.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Durbin on Epstein Files: Who gave the orders to flag records related to president trump? To flag any records which included his name?

Bondi: I'm not going to discuss anything about that with you

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Paddy Magill @padraigpostal.bsky.social · 1d

Well, hopefully being behind the Comey prosecution she realises the need to be fully truthful to a Senate Committee......

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid

Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed

www.theguardian.com

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Paddy Magill @padraigpostal.bsky.social · 1d

The current attempts to follow a Trumpist attitude to 'policy' just look strange, let alone the practical political effect of copying a 'Politician' with Trump's UK approval ratings, Farage at least has pre-2016 track record (with several other personal Political Parties).

Paddy Magill @padraigpostal.bsky.social · 1d

I await the thud with which the penny drops with Conservatives...first problem for any Government constituted on a FPTP majority is persuading it's own M.P.'s that losing some of their number is better than most.

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 1d

"Netanyahu will be withdrawn to the sidelines of history for his failures, for his arrogance, for his lack of human sensitivity."

Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert tells @krishgm.bsky.social his thoughts on what will be the current leader's legacy.

Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/palesti...

Palestinian state is in Israel’s interest, says Israeli ex-PM

We spoke to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and asked him if Benjamin Netanyahu could be trusted to stick to the plan for Gaza.

www.channel4.com

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Paddy Magill @padraigpostal.bsky.social · 1d

Well, if he wants to repeal the Act of Settlement......presume it's just the part on Judges and not the whole thing because putting a Wittlesbach on the throne might be seen as extreme...

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2d

I’m at a Tory fringe event about young voters which has been shown a massive (5,000+) poll of voters aged 16-40 - and it’s (not unexpectedly) very bad news for the Conservatives.

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Paddy Magill @padraigpostal.bsky.social · 2d

Never rule out the double-hit effect of when Dublin goes back to Brussels and the very thin TCA gets put back on table, the ECHR is, in effect, to the TCA what the four freedoms are to Single Market, a legal backstop.

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Paddy Magill @padraigpostal.bsky.social · 2d

We await Lancashire County Council with interest, been basically technically insolvent for years....

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d

"I believe that Americans would agree that the government can’t just make people disappear without any process or explanation. Second, because I want to give the government a chance to admit that they were wrong.

So far the government has not done so."

newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-ci...

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3d

The bar of the Midland Hotel, lunchtime on the Sunday of Tory conference.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

Norwegian F-35s have been deployed to patrol Polish airspace.

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Paddy Magill @padraigpostal.bsky.social · 3d

Very appropriate sketch for start of Conservative Conference?

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3d

#OtD 5 Oct 1789 thousands of women in Paris, angry over the high price and scarcity of bread, ransacked the city armoury for weapons and besieged the Palace of Versailles in one of the opening salvos of the French revolution shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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