Cleaners at the flag ship John Lewis store on Oxford Street have won a fantastic victory against job cuts and low pay. The management have now agreed to withdraw, totally, plans for mass compulsory redundancy, and to give cleaners 10% pay rise, backdated to March – following a strike by staff who had organised themselves [...]
Over in America, a video showing one particularly cringeworthy piece of gay rights activism has gone viral. Chick-fil-a has been rightly been pilloried of late for the homophobic politics of its corporate leadership. As such, Adam M. Smith, a now-fired chief financial officer, decided to drive in to chick-fil-a and film himself bullying a cashier. [...]
It’s time to end “the war on pubic hair” according to a prominent physician quoted in the Independent. The article – which many comrades have been sharing – highlights the health risks of having a “bikini wax” and of generally screwing around with one’s pubic hair and naughty bits. Personally I find this whole line [...]
I don’t want to rain on everyone’s parade, but the strong showing by Team GB at this year’s Olympics really isn’t remotely surprising. When a country is awarded the dubious privilege of hosting the Games, there’s a strong tendency for that country to invest heavily in sports infrastructure and training in the years leading up [...]
