Here’s the final paragraph from an online Telegraph article on the tube strike:
Having trouble getting to work? Please share your tales of travel woe below. For readers who live outside London, this is your chance to gloat about your trouble-free commute.
Who said conservatives don’t have a sense of humour? Yes, vent your anti-union anger if you [...]
Generally speaking, I’m a big fan of tax. It pays for schools, hospitals, roads, disability and unemployment benefit, and all the other things that, way back when, we as a society collectively realised it would be damn stupid to hope the free market would provide. (It also pays my wages, since I work for the [...]
For the last two years or so, I have been engaging in a dastardly plot to destroy the Tory party. Yes, by writing silly outraged-liberal letters to my Conservative MP – to which she must respond – on matters she ultimately doesn’t care about, I’ll hopefully waste enough Tory time and resources to destroy the [...]
There’ve been some interesting posts around about the launch of the Big Society, from Harpy Marx and Anna Raccoon’s pieces on how it’s all to be funded, to the typically naive optimism of Left Foot Forward. Ed West at the Telegraph has an interesting spate of religion-bashing, though not half so daft as the knee-jerk [...]
Some excellent news from Leeds University. Students there have rejected a motion at the referendum which would have mandated their union to oppose lecturers strikes. Earlier this year Leeds UCU organised an extremely impressive campaign in defence of jobs and education, which ultimately won major concessions from their management. Strike action was threatened, with an [...]
A common refrain from all three of the major parties at this election has been their assurance that while of course they’re all going to slash public spending at some point, they’re going to do this in a way which ensures that ‘frontline services’ are protected. During the leaders’ debates on Thursday both Cameron and [...]
For all of you unionists out there, there’s an interesting-looking free conference on in London this Saturday called by SOAS UCU, SOAS Unison, and SOAS Students’ Union.
“Hands off my Workmate Conference
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Saturday 17th October 2009
10am to 5.30pm
On the 12th June this year, the School of Oriental and African [...]
As a consequence of moving across the country I’ve had to remove myself from a number of mailing lists in Merseyside, but happily I hadn’t left all of them, because it meant I got to hear some excellent news yesterday. Councillors on the Wirral have done a major about face and reversed plans to close [...]
I’ve been very late flagging this up because of the little matter of moving from one side of the country to the other, but you may or may not know there is a strike going on. Staff at Tower Hamlets College, an F.E. College serving some of the poorest people in the country, are on [...]
Over the next three weeks I will be taking an in-depth look at the problems and some of the proposed solutions to what I sincerely believe is one of the most pressing yet under-discussed issues of today: namely, social housing policy. As the title suggests, I do realise that not many people flick through the [...]
