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Mark Carney is acting as a shaman in an uncontrollable world | Karel Williams gu.com/p/3hpb8/tw via Guardian Opinion

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Was looking forward to visiting new Everyman Cinema in Leeds but not while they have staff on #zero-hours contracts t.gu.com/nNUoX

Fast-food workers strike in 60 US cities demanding #salaries of $15 an hour and the ability to form unions. aje.me/17mWANv

Ricky Tomlinson: "Blacklisting must be eradicated from Britain for good" | gu.com/p/3tyt6/tw #Unions

Channel 4 News Energy firms plead poverty. UK depends on imports. Expect shortage by 2018. Where's the debate on dysfunctional privatisation?

Now we see what was really at stake in the miners' strike, writes Seumas Milne gu.com/p/3nfha/tw #BobCrow

RT @MerrickBadger: Best defaced #UKIP billboard I've seen so far. This one's near the Liberty Stadium on Swansea pic.x.com/8eMAEaZ4A8 #wlf

Happy May Day!

Young workers hit hardest by unprecedented fall in wages gu.com/p/3zpcy/tw Guardian Business

#CERICphd2014 off to great start. Interesting set of papers and good range of Uni's represented. Promises to be an interesting day

MAC report uses Bessa et al research on pay in domiciliary care, and mine and Robert MacKenzie work on employers' use of migrants CERIC

Politicians who say people "like" zero hours contracts should try sitting through this. Blog blogs.channel4.com/paul-mason-blo…

Congratulations Nousheen “Dr. Nousheen Zakaria: With Chris Forde and Robert MacKenzie on my graduation #LeedsGrad14 ”

Grad School's Beulah Chelva won 1st prize in the poster competition at the White Rose DTC Conference @LeedsUniBSchool

Beulah Chelva wins 1st prize in the poster competition at the White Rose DTC Conference in York WRSSDTC

CERIC-Karlstad Doctoral Colloquium opens with a paper from @c_mclachlan89 #CericKarlstad

Universities next...? x.com/chrislake1/sta…