George Ryall

Whoever filmed this is a genius.

Time for Oxford to organise With the far right hogging the headlines, Oxford trade union activist Toby James says the city can buck the trend – but only if we work together, from allotment associations to school governors to com...

Time for Oxford to organise

#Oxon #Oxfordshire

🔗: https://oxfordclarion.uk/time...

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

Do you know how badly things have to be going in America for us to be owned this hard by the Dutch? The Dutch of all people

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?

TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride.

They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry
it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry
it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry
it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry
it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry

IP addresses will soon become like flags of convenience in merchant shipping, with the registered country having no actual connection to the vessel used.

Thanks for live posting that this evening, I've enjoyed (yes really!) dipping in and out of your coverage.

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But you may be better off (time and cost) at one of the other stations in the Great Western, not using Crossrail and changing at Paddington.

In shocking news, there isn’t actually a war on allotments.

“The amount of sites being sold off in the last year amounts to less than 0.01% of all plots. At this rate, it will take Rayner and the Labour government 40,000 years to build over them.”

Big Government. Newsday.com/matt

Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week

Very sorry to hear about the death of Tom Lehrer at age 97. The cleverest, funniest singer/songwriter of all time, even if he lost interest in the whole business pretty quickly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...

We at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have coordinated a letter in @thetimes.com today in which numerous individuals and organisations call on the government to withdraw its mistaken rules which are having a serious chilling effect on civil servants speaking in public…

Other than being filler in a local paper, I struggle to see how this is news from Oxfordshire

One other 7/7 thread today. Because I think how the bus network got running again is a real testament to some serious heroes that day:

The bus drivers and staff who got that network running again and got London home that night.

And TfL/the Mayor disobeyed the Security Services to make it happen /1

Prospect union secures recognition at Great British Energy’s nuclear section Energy secretary Ed Miliband says the government’s clean energy mission “means good, unionised jobs”

Energy secretary Ed Miliband says the government’s clean energy mission “means good, unionised jobs”
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This is a fucking stupid idea.
Expert source: me.

Georgia Gould MP speaking at Prospect Public Service Sector Conference

Great to be joined by Cabinet Office Minister @georgiagould.bsky.social‬ at our Public Service Sector Conference.

Georgia addressed conference and took questions from delegates, she thanked Prospect members for the technical expertise they bring which is key to the government's missions

I mean, I'm a republican - UK no-to-kings version not US simp-for-kings version - and even I love a good military parade.

Not one that looks like it was ordered on Temu though.

Nobody show the US president Charles III's Trooping of the Colour for his official birthday yesterday.

Photo of Prospect Senior Deputy General Secretary Sue Ferns OBE

Not every honour feels deserved, but there can be no doubt that @FernsSue, Senior Deputy General Secretary @ProspectUnion, fully deserves her OBE. She always adds substance and wisdom to any debate. A committed, pragmatic trade unionist to her core and a lovely person to boot.

Speaking in the House of Commons today on Sizewell C, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband thanks @gmb.org.uk, @unitetheunion.bsky.social and @prospectunion.bsky.social for being “brilliant champions for the nuclear industry”

Eurostar trains to Switzerland and Germany are an empty promise The operator claims direct trains to Geneva, Frankfurt and Cologne could launch by the early 2030s, as potential rivals vie for space to maintain trains

I have an opinion piece for the iPaper - basically on why we still should not (yet?) believe Eurostar's expansion plans #CrossChannelRail inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

We've released a joint report with @prospectunion.bsky.social - we're calling for stronger collaboration between employers and #TradeUnions to build the employment relations skills essential for economic growth.

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.

For the 20th year in a row I am demanding that the EBU consider releasing ward level data.

Keir Starmer is my MP. This is the letter I wrote to him today.

Subject: Island of Strangers?

Mr Starmer,

Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.

Newark Airport Had 3 Controllers on Duty When the Goal Is 14

Some takeaways:
*Air traffic controller is a difficult job that requires a lot of expertise; takes time to train
*Controllers are underpaid

A lot of public work is like this - just that the effects are clearer when planes have near misses
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/b...

And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.