Prof Diana Jeater

A reminder that Israel has used the dead bodies of Palestinians as bargaining chips for decades.

Last year Mustafa Barghouti explained that Israel is holding over 500 bodies.

Israel is using the failure to return the bodies of hostages as a pretext to violate the ceasefire themselves, but as Nour Odeh points out, the ceasefire agreement did not contain a timeline for the handing over of the bodies & Israel already knew it might take weeks or months.

The Fraud serialisation, Part Three: the money keeps rolling in Cash was flowing into Labour Together but Morgan McSweeney failed to declare it. Little wonder, when it was used to astroturf against Corbyn

The Fraud serialisation, Part Three: the money keeps rolling in

Cash was flowing into Labour Together - but Morgan McSweeney failed to declare it.

Little wonder, when it was used to astroturf against Corbyn and the Canary...
www.thecanary.co/the-fraud/20...

Launders Lane Still Burning As Residents Left High And Dry. Arnolds Field is “still smoking away” according to Rainham residents, who continue to be left high and dry as Havering Council drags its heels on their new decision.  It’s been a …

It's been four months since the high court ruling.
Rainham children deserve better 💔
#ZanesLaw #EllasLaw #LaundersLane
thehaveringdaily.co.uk/2025/10/15/l...

Saffa gets US visa revoked after calling Charlie Kirk 'trailer trash' A South African had his US visa revoked over a tweet referring to assassinated activist Charlie Kirk as 'white nationalist trailer trash'.

A South African had his US visa revoked over a tweet referring to assassinated activist Charlie Kirk as ‘white nationalist trailer trash’.

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

“Protest is allowed, as long as it’s invisible, transient and useless. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies.”

- @GeorgeMonbiot

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Posts from those living through starvation in Gaza, showed produce with dollar price tags, at extortionate prices

Such Israeli tactics serve 2 purposes...

Creates tension & divides population into starving & just surviving…

It also squeezes every last ounce of wealth from those imprisoned there!!

This Friday. Outside the Inquiry. 9am. 'Sara' will be giving evidence about #spycops sexual exploitation of women, in particular James 'Straven' Thomson.

Trump overheard on hot mic talking to the President of Indonesia asking for a meeting with son Eric. Unless Eric’s converting to the Muslim religion, this sounds like Trump family business. Our Supreme Family of grifters never stop. Oh well, this is just the Trump family being the Trump family.

Workers intimidated and abused for taking down flags There are numerous reports of workers being assaulted, spat at and verbally abused

Workers hired to remove flags are being intimidated and abused

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/work...

Heading to negotiations on day ten of our strike action.

Staff and students came together early on a Friday morning to send us into negotiations. Our @leicesterucu.bsky.social community is amazing! Shame our managers were not willing to actually negotiate. At least they listened and they certainly heard the crowd behind us! The strike continues.

Staff and students came together early on a Friday morning to show their support before negotiations.
The negotiations did not lift the threat of compulsory redundancies, so we'll be on strike again in the coming week.

Ridiculous that Geography Geology and Environment at Leicester is under threat. @leicesterucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk . In the shadow of where David Attenborough grew up (house at the back), we are on strike to protest against this threat. #climatechange #attenborough

Leicester are co-hosting this rally to discuss how we defend education locally and nationally. Hear from local and national negotiators and join in the conversation.
More details and registration here: ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Stop. Copying. QMUL's. Worst. Practices. @ucu.org.uk.

Seriously, this is embarrassing.

P.S.: it is our understanding workers are under no obligation to report participation in industrial action

Watching what our own @ucu.org.uk union is doing to @uniteucu.bsky.social workers is making me relive a lot of hurt from when QMUL did this to us (I wasn't quite aware of how much this was still live trauma but whew...)

Absolutely unconscionable that *our own union* is causing this long-term harm.

This is utterly despicable. They are bringing the union into disrepute. Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social

This treatment of staff by a trade union employer (or any!) is despicable.

Jo Grady must resign (in shame). She is not fit to have her name associated with the trade union movement.

Who’d have thought that UCU senior management would look at the punitive strategies used by university management in local disputes and think, 'Ah, that’s a brillitant way to attempt some strike-breaking'?

Why is @ucu.org.uk engaging in the very behaviour that we/it publicly call out when members’ employers employ such tactics?

It is shameful. It undermines every branch of #UCU

It’s utterly destructive to staff morale and our branches’ leverage

Not in our name.

Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social

We hoped for a slightly different response to our letter to @ucu.org.uk in which we highlight how this is in breach of our union's policy, copying hte worst of #UKHE employer behaviour, and flying in the face of our legal cases...

No response yet but we get this further copying of toxic tactics?

At our Emergency General Meeting, our branch unanimously voted in support of this solidarity motion with @uniteucu.bsky.social. This behaviour by @ucu.org.uk senior management is unacceptable and threatens the entire @tuc.org.uk movement.

Read in full:
qmucu.org/2025/09/24/b...

We had hoped our own union's senior management would listen to our pleas to stop their breaching of union policy and jeopardising of members' legal cases.

We are deeply disappointed not even to have had a reply and have no choice but to raise our concerns via other routes.
qmucu.org/2025/09/24/b...

We call on Jo Grady and UCU SMT to: • Enter negotiations with Unite UCU without preconditions. • Stop the threat of punitive deductions for ASOS - this breaches UCU and TUC policy and only serves to undermine all of us, not least those UCU members currently involved in legal test cases against punitive deductions after taking lawful industrial action. Signed, 25 UCU branch committees (and counting)

Sometimes solutions are easy @drjogrady.bsky.social & @ucu.org.uk

Let’s sit down and talk without conditions or threats that damage everyone. It’s time to resolve this dispute.

Our statement, with support from the following branch committees:

Quakers denied intervention in court challenge over faith rights in terror law case Quakers in Britain has been refused permission to give evidence in a landmark legal challenge to the UK government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Quakers in Britain has been refused permission to give evidence in a landmark legal challenge to the UK government's proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

We are disappointed with this decision, which means our concerns around freedom of religion will not be heard in court.

The collective brain fade at @ucu.org.uk HQ showing no signs of abating. 🧵 👇🏼

Why is our trade union emulating the worst behaviour of our employers towards UCU staff? How many of our letters, motions, attempts to bring motions from lay members pressing for resolution have been ignored now? Solidarity with all @uniteucu.bsky.social #UnionStrong #ReclaimUCU

Shocking that UCU SMT are threatening to dock pay just for ASOS in Unite UCU’s dispute. Our branch is donating £150 + our Admin’s strike pay to their fund, with more to follow. We urge all UCU branches to donate asap to support our UCU staff strikers.