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Investor Confidence and the Remaking of Labour Rights India’s four Labour Codes, implemented in November 2025, consolidate a long-term shift privileging capital interests over collective bargaining. By legalising decades-old practices, they recast citize...

A series of articles on the changes to India’s labour laws. www.theindiaforum.in/law/investor...

Some employers missed the memo, not realising more than half the population are women therefore a huge proportion are also working women. Despite more awareness during Covid, pollution, the rise in hazardous chemicals, risky jobs most PPE is still designed for men. gmhazards.org.uk/index.php/news

So pleased that finally a biography of this pioneering woman has come out.

UK Election Security is Threatened by Political Money Laundering via Cryptocurrency Cryptocurrency increases the ‘attack surface’ for electoral interference. The UK government’s focus is too narrow.

The government’s Election Bill is far too weak. We need much tougher protections. www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

Amazon India Workers Union Submits Heat Safety Recommendations to Government, Cites Constitutional and Labour Law Gaps | Countercurrents NEW DELHI, Feb 16– The Amazon India Workers Union (AIWU) submitted detailed recommendations to the Ministry of Labour and Employment calling for binding heat safety standards under the Occupational…

Great stuff! countercurrents.org/2026/02/amaz...

Norfolk council leader pulls out of long-awaited devolution deal over election U-turn Kay Mason Billig accuses Steve Reed of forcing council to agree to poll delay in return for extra funding and powers

Why the hell did the govt want LG reform in the first place? With all the things needing urgent action, why this? It’s that urge to be seen to do something. If Labour can’t even be competent, what’s the point of it? I am a frustrated Labour Party member www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Greens within 5 points of Reform in new poll as Labour drops out of top two There's fragmentation on both left and right as new Rupert Lowe party registers double digits and Conservatives slump to fourth place.

Thats 48% of voters bacjing far right parties; not good news www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/gre...

Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...

Reform could be in power with less than 30% of the vote. Just STV which isnt a major change, should prevent that. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Capital versus Labour in India scroll.in/article/1090...

These cuts to physics research will be a disaster for UK scientists – and for our standing in the world | Jon Butterworth If plans by the UK’s science funding body go ahead, we won’t be able to benefit from Britain’s membership of Cern and other large international projects, says Jon Butterworth, professor of physics at ...

Very short sighted and just plain wrong. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ukraine today is the equivalent of the Spanish Civil War. Russia is going to learn the lessons and apply them in the next conflict. Thankfully, Europe is not repeating the mistakes of non alignment and appeasement made in the 1930s. It’s a harsh truth. Prepare for war if you want peace.

UK defence crisis – Starmer act now! Government dithering is putting thousands of skilled jobs at risk and threatening the specialist expertise the UK aerospace industry needs. Call on Keir Starmer and the UK Government to: 1. Protec...

I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: UK defence crisis – Starmer act now to defend jobs. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/uk-def...

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Fantastic to see Smithills’ very own Huw Nightingale win a gold for #TeamGB in the mixed snowboard cross!

Congrats to him and to Charlotte Bankes on an incredible victory earlier today!

#MilanoCortina2026

Senior Reform UK figures attend launch of How to Launder Money book Co-author George Cottrell is close aide to party leader Nigel Farage and served several months in US prison

Utter nonsense from Reform who want to tear up the anti-money laundering rules which protect each and every one of us from the very criminals looking to use the UK economy to wash their criminal gains.

Reform Party defence policy: a recorded announcement saying, “we surrender” - in Russian.

And astonishingly, the government plans to appeal. That’s taxpayer’s money being wasted. The sheer arrogance of the Home Secretary.

Farage, who speaks a language called vile lying nonsense, would have us speaking Russian, if the country followed his defence policy.

It beggars belief that a Labour govt would ride roughshod over health unions when deciding on NHS pay.

This announcement will simply increase the problems of low pay that has seen thousands of healthcare workers leave, worsening the recruitment and retention crisis in our NHS.

Farage lying? What a surprise!

The Labour Party has become devoid of purpose My union will chart its own course unless this government understands that ordinary people want real change

Stupid people in the Labour leadership will try and write Sharon off as a Corbynista. They forget she won against the pro-Corbyn clique that was running the union. The LabourParty needs to change direction - fast. www.ft.com/content/1f5c...

Proposed measures are a good start but need to go much further to guarantee a level playing field election time, to completely stop the influence of foreign powers and their Agents, and to go somewhere towards restoring trust.

UK should immediately cancel all contracts with Palantir

Reform threatens to defund Welsh university after student society's debate ban The warning over funding came after the Bangor Debating & Political Society refused a request from Reform for Q and A with students

Reform expect a private organisation, a debating Society, to give them a platform, just because they want it. www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w...

ABS DATA PROVES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING REDUCES GENDERED WAGE GAP

Evidenceof how trade unions reduce inequality www.ohsrep.org.au/abs_data_pro...

An interesting view of India’s trade unions and why they are not more effective. There are labour markets and other constraints, but the organising model proposed is the right one. scroll.in/article/1089...

Today’s Local Power Plan announcement is the biggest investment in community-owned energy in British history.

Our members have fought for years to put power and profit in community hands. Now that work will shape the future of energy ownership in the UK.⚡️

A panchayat dream and a daughter’s murder A girl’s body was found in the Nizam Sagar distributary canal in Telangana’s Nizamabad; police say girl’s father killed her, his firstborn, so that his wife could contest panchayat election; Under Mah...

Unbelievable, unbearable. A panchayat dream and a daughter’s murder - www.thehindu.com/news/nationa... For the best experience read this on The Hindu App. bit.ly/THNewsApp

Equality is not a slogan; it is a collective commitment. When we all stand together with courage and conviction, we do more than challenge injustice: we ignite the full power of our union.