Hurrah! Good news for the B&B industry in this little corner of Wiltshire, which has recently been freed from under the shadow of discrimination – or did I get the story wrong? Norman Tebbit had the most weaselly quote of the day with: “The concerns which are being expressed this evening are primarily about sodomy …
A quick word of warning to any Blogger-based bloggers looking to switch from the old Blogger service to new Blogger. Don’t do it! It seems more than a little buggy, and I’ve suffered from broken feeds (so I don’t imagine anyone else will be reading this without the feed links from bloggers4labour and tigmoo.co.uk!), as …
Yes indeed, in this week’s top ‘believe it or not’ story (here on Al Jazeera), capitalist running pig-dog lackeys Wal-Mart are now trading in China. Apparently it’s going well, and they’ve even celebrated by setting up their own branch of the Communist Party for staff. Yes, you read that right – Wal-Mart are digging into …
Very interesting piece by Jonathan Guthrie in the FT (read it before they slap the curse of subscription view on it), “Unions need to swap the red flag for pastel shades”. He’s drawing together the T&G/Amicus merger with a new paper on unions’ finanical outlook from LSE/PSI (with the snappy title of “Accounting for Collective …
I like shopping at the Co-Op as a rule – it still has that feelgood connection to the labour movement that you don’t quite get with ASDA-WalMart. However, funny things seem to be afoot at the company, whose funerals wing has taken the monumental step of de-recognising the GMB, and ending a relationship over 100 …
Tagged by Tygerland to write about “10 things that I’d never do”. This is harder than it at first seems. F’rinstance, there are all manner of categories which you have to decide to rule in or out. First off, there are the kind of principled delusions of grandeur which aren’t ever likely to happen and …
A rather cramped demo this morning in front of Australia House in London. Roadworks all round the building meant most people having to squash into a rather narrow corridor of construction fences, and not actually coming into contact with that many passers-by. Still, everyone stayed cheerful, and rattled their protest boomerangs. Paul in the piccy …
Luckily as an avowed sports hater, I’m immune to the current wave of cricket-inspired Aussiephobia, and can show a bit of solidarity with their unions and working people. It’s a year to the day on Thursday since John Howard’s government introduced sweeping new labour laws, which were a body-blow to people trying to organise and …
Thanks to Martin at Blogging4Merton for a bit of nostalgia whilst reading Bloggers4Labour on my commute in to work*. Where were you on 22 November 1990, when Maggie announced her resignation? I was at 6th form college, in my A level politics class, when we heard cheering coming through the wall from the class next …
Here’s a story from last week (have been PC-free this last weekend). John Monks, General Secretary of the ETUC (and former GS of the TUC) was in town to give the annual Bevan Lecture, entitled “The Challenge of the New Capitalism”. His speech is online and is well worth a read (as is Stefan Stern’s …