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John McDonnell now say it again but louder on avoiding cuts to disability benefits

This is so ghastly but powerful and needed

The Brexit quart won’t fit into Labour’s pint pot. Latest post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. Wes Streeting sees Brexit damage as a 'fact of life' to be lived with, but other facts of political life make it unsustainable to confine Brexit to the margins: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-br…

Budget 2024: Younger workers get 16% minimum wage uplift – but what about the social wage? Prof. Tony Dobbins (Tony Dobbins) reacts to the announcement that the government is increasing the minimum wage: birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/budg…

Thank you Michael Samers and David Jordhus-Lier for providing two more generous endorsements of the forthcoming Routledge Books Handbook for the Future of Work, which I have edited with Julie MacLeavy. For more details of its 32 chapters, dropping in December, see the tweet quoted below!

THANKS FOR HAVING US @BBCRADIO2 @JOWHILEY & @BBC6MUSIC  @HUWSTEPHENS WATCH/LISTEN: bio.to/TheCureBBC #SONGSOFALOSTWORLD

If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 76 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight Please take just two seconds to show you’re right behind NHS staff

The Royals make millions in profit each year, but this has always been shrouded in secrecy, until now. A joint Channel 4 Dispatches and The Times and The Sunday Times investigation reveals that the King and Prince William are receiving public money through leasing property to public services like the NHS.

That's the whole point of privatising public services. It opens a lovely pipeline for money to flow from the tax payer to wealthy people who own the property or the shares. Not just royals. That's why the wealthy support parties that convert public assets to private contracts.

Monstrous levels of leeching & greed by the British Monarchy. Shame on King Charles and Prince William. The servitude mentality of Brits is so medieval. The only purpose the Monarchy has ever served is its existence. No Corp, CGT or Inheritance tax on its wealth while we bear the

What I don’t understand is why they get a penny from the state? They are ‘loaded’ to say the least. Surely, first step here is to abolish the Civil List? That would be £86m more to spend on our public services. Quick win ⁦Rachel Reeves⁩ theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/n…

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Looking forward to sharing our research with Dr Daniel Wheatley Tony Dobbins Holly Birkett Uni of Birmingham at CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition today. Join us for the roundtable session about #4dayworkweek as part of the #KnowledgeExchange World Café at Evidence Lab Live.

Less than a month to go until our Midlands Innovation Fellowship closes! If you're a PhD student or recent PhD graduate in social sciences, life sciences, health sciences or medicine, you could join us in Parliament for a 13 week fellowship. Find out more: post.parliament.uk/midlands-innov…

Being an academic is about being critical and analytical as Stuart Hall said, 'The university is a critical institution or it is nothing'.

Government opens consultation on "creating a modern framework for industrial relations" - IER ier.org.uk/news/governmen…

Democrats abandoned FDRs vision for universal economic security in favor of "targeted, temporary, and timely" programs that require the already insecure to run the bureaucratic gauntlet to receive a modicum of support.

Finally, this issue has a superb introduction to Fox, his life and work by Andy Hodder and Michael Gold, as well as a topical paper on the challenges of inflation by Melanie Simms and thought provoking others by DrDeborahDean and Tony Dobbins End/

In process of bailing out of this platform. Too dispiriting. Moving to: tdobbo.bsky.social

Musk has wrecked it.