Jonathan Preminger

The Marriage Bar in the UK: Case Studies from the BBC and Teaching BUIRA History of Industrial Relations Study Group in association with ProBE Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment

BUIRA History of IR study group seminar: The Marriage Bar in the UK - Case Studies from the BBC and Teaching.
2 Dec 17:30-19:15 with Kate Murphy and Harriet Samuels
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-marria...

“Protected profit” and value sharing to boost non-interfering investment, employee ownership and democratic businesses Purpose. Employee ownership (EO) and profit sharing have numerous benefits. Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) are proliferating, but EO could grow faster by harnessing “non-interfering”, risk-sharing i...

“Protected profit” and value sharing to boost non-interfering investment, employee ownership and democratic businesses:
Guy Major and I continue to develop our model for external investment while retaining full worker control to promote democratic business.
www.emerald.com/jpeo/article...

ERU is delighted to start the year with a panel on Digital Work, in collaboration with @cusocsci.bsky.social, featuring Agnieszka Rydik @agnirydzik.bsky.social and Mattia Dessi @mattiadessifrau.bsky.social, Nov 12 at 12:00, @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social

Save the date!! BUIRA 2026 conference will be held on 23-25 June in the Wivenhoe campus of Essex University

כל החברה מעורבת בפשעים, והם מגובים ומטויחים. קשה לסיים ככה מלחמה | דעה בשלהי מלחמת העולם השנייה כתבה הפילוסופית חנה ארנדט, שבחברה שבה כולם מבצעים פשעים, לא ניתן לאתר פושע אחד. בשנתיים האחרונות בנתה ממשלת בנימין נתניהו את המערך המאפ

אדם רז ואסף בונדי @assafbondy.bsky.social נותנים פרספקטיבה חשובה על מלחמה שכולם מעורבים בה - ואיך נוצרה קהילת פשע
www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/202...

The Economics of Complicity - The Ideas Letter The dramatic evolution of Israeli reservists from unprecedented protest before the October 7 attacks to near-total compliance with the Netanyahu administration’s campaign in Gaza cannot be explained b...

Interesting perspective on how Israel buys complicity in mass killings, by @assafbondy.bsky.social and Adam Raz: www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ec...

Obscene, but let's stop using the phrase "is worth" for rich people. They aren't "worth" any more than you or me. They "have" more. Though even that term is problematic in its neutrality.

Elon Musk Just Became The First Person Ever Worth $500 Billion Musk is now half-way to becoming the first ever trillionaire.

Elon Musk Just Became The First Person Ever Worth $500bn.

He has used his wealth to buy govts/legislators, unleash Trumpism, promising to hand $100m to Farage, create social strife and divisions.

Like the rest of us, he will leave the world empty-handed.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends.

90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts.

90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends.

Public ownership would make a difference.

UCU HE pay and conditions e-ballot replacement request form (2025) UCU HE pay and conditions e-ballot replacement request form (2025).

HE members we are calling on you to vote! 🗳️

UCEA's offer of 1.4% not only fails to stop the decline in salaries, it’s yet another real-terms pay cut.

Haven't received your e-ballot? You have until 12 noon TOMORROW to request a replacement: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/ucu-he-re...

YouTube video by BUIRA Online BUIRA 2025 Presidential Address - What's the Place of IR Academics and their Association(s)

Prof Peter Turnbull gives the presidential address at BUIRA 2025, held at the University of Exeter, Cornwall campus - What's the Place of IR Academics and their Association(s)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP9p...

There is no Water shortage in the UK.

Just an excess of people running Water Companies who should be in jail.

England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade as experts call for hosepipe bans Levels even lower than in severe drought year of 2022, data shows, with water firms urged to ‘be proactive’

England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade, experts call for hosepipe bans.

No new reservoirs built since 1989.

Over a trillion litres of water a year lost to leaks.

Water companies paid out £85bn in dividends. No regulator/Govt had a national plan.

Crisis created by privatisation.

CUNY suspends student activist leader, fires four faculty members in escalation of repression against Palestine activism Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have…

READ: CUNY just suspended a leading Palestinian student organizer and fired four faculty for protesting Israel’s genocide. This is a blatant crackdown on free speech — a McCarthyite purge to silence the growing movement for Palestinian liberation.
mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny...

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.

Why BBC editors must one day stand trial for colluding in Israel's genocide In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel's destruction of Gaza

Why BBC editors must one day stand trial for colluding in Israel's genocide
In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel’s destruction of Gaza
jonathancook.substack.com/p/why-bbc-ed...

Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

"The BBC should hang their heads in shame" for not airing the 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' film, said Gary Lineker at a screening in London tonight.

Luckily, Zeteo bought the global rights to this hugely important documentary and is airing it here:
gazadoctors.film

JVL Official Statement
We oppose the proscription of Palestine Action and send them our solidarity

We support the right for people to engage in direct action to prevent greater harm e.g. for Palestine, to limit environmental catastrophe, to support rights of asylum seekers
https://is.gd/NEoGfH
1/2

🚨 EMERGENCY DEMO: Defend The Right To Protest, Don't Ban Palestine Action
⏰ Wednesday, 2 July, 6PM
📍 Outside Parliament, London

Join us to protest this government's attacks on the right to protest and to demand that MPs vote against the plans to proscribe Palestine Action.

The U.S. and Israel aren't rational actors.

They bomb nuclear sites, escalate a regional war, commit genocide, then act shocked when there's retaliation.

Palestine Action to be banned after RAF base break in The home secretary will move to proscribe the Palestine Action group in the coming weeks, the BBC understands

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's a very dangerous step to define groups that do not threaten physical harm as terrorist.

The extension from bullets and bombs to paint is another step towards a fascist state

Never forget Israel started this war with Iran, and they are still committing Genocide in Gaza.

Israel continues to claim victimhood, even as it slaughters children in Iran We are told, again and again, that Israel is defending itself. But it is only defending its right to act with impunity throughout the Middle East to maintain its supremacy. Israel’s attack on Iran is…

Enough with the myth of Israel-as‑victim. The latest strike on Iran—killing civilians, including children—is not self‑defense. It’s aggression. A decades‑long pattern of impunity. Israel casts itself as wounded, weaponizing narrative to justify regional dominance mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...

Iranians and Israelis call for ceasefire and diplomacy We, Iranians and Israelis, share grave concerns for the future of our countries and the region. Israel and Iran have been engaged in indirect conflict for decades; a conflict that puts the entire regi...

I am proud to announce that a group of 21 Iranians and Israeli have come together to call for ceasefire, diplomacy and an end to this devastating war.

Please spread our message as far and wide as you can, -- and consider joining us!

docs.google.com/forms/d/1DmH...

Weekly Briefing: Israel attacks Iran as Gaza genocide reaches new depths Israel strikes Iran, killing top officials, while Gaza’s medical system collapses and starvation spreads. Trump fans the flames at home with military crackdowns on protestors.

Weekly Briefing: Israel attacks Iran as Gaza genocide reaches new depths
mondoweiss.net/2025/06/week...

8 years later and not a single person has been put on trial for Grenfell, even though a report a year ago listed all the people involved, and what they did or didn't do.

They don't want to convict them, because they are rich.

Israel continues to claim victimhood, even as it slaughters children in Iran We are told, again and again, that Israel is defending itself. But it is only defending its right to act with impunity throughout the Middle East to maintain its supremacy. Israel’s attack on Iran is...

We are told, again and again, that Israel is defending itself. But it is only defending its right to act with impunity throughout the Middle East to maintain its supremacy. Israel's attack on Iran is just the latest example.

mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...

#Palestine #Israel

Trump wants you to believe that this is about Iran signing a nuclear deal - one he tore up in 2018! - but Israel just killed Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator who was telling US television just two weeks ago that Iran was open to a deal.