Will Stronge

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Major hikes in food prices are baked in. What should we do about it?

Quick explainer:

Really pleased to see this vital report by @autonomy-institute.bsky.social in the Guardian. What are your children's futures going to be like?

This is tonight in London!

What reform does the UK need around:

Media
Big Tech
Democracy

A LOT to cover. Free wine and soft drinks as standard.

Reserve a spot here: actionnetwork.org/events/forum...

Forum 2029 keeps on developing!

Onto the next one: in person in Bethnal Green on the 16th!

Labour could find the money it wants without raising taxes. This is austerity by amnesia | Randeep Ramesh Starmer and Reeves need a fresh approach to enact their vision, and I have a plan for that, says Randeep Ramesh, the Guardian’s chief leader writer

Labour could find the money it wants without raising taxes. This is austerity by amnesia | Randeep Ramesh

As far as real-world final bosses go....

2) Media, Tech and Democratic Reform

This will will be IN-PERSON in London and has an incredible panel of speakers.

@jemgilbert.bsky.social

Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths)
Lena Swedlow (Compass)
Adam Cantwell-Corn ( TUC)

Not to be missed! Reserve a spot:
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TWO new upcoming Forum 2029 events:

1) Public services: ending austerity logics

Ft.

Anna Coote (New Economics Foundation),
Jamie Driscoll (Majority),
Luke Fletcher MS (Plaid Cymru),
Abby Jitendra (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

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Did Not Happen of the Year Awards have never usually been cleaned up by a single post, however...

In 3rd place: tin of instant coffee

In 2nd place: Cabbie who is also sociologist of HNW individuals

And in 1st place, drumroll please, the seat on the tube "no man" confrontation

🚨BREAKING

HMRC missed out on around £47bn in taxes — from errors, avoidance and evasion— according to its annual "Tax Gap" report, released today.

Here's why that is likely an underestimate, and why the real gap is likely to keep on growing...
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Age and heat: examining the interlocking pressures of the next two decades Read Autonomy's paper on the trajectory of ageing populations and rising temperatures across the next two decades.

Risks to the workforce:
autonomy.work/portfolio/le...

Risks to older people:
autonomy.work/portfolio/ag...

"With every fraction of a degree of warming, the UK will experience hotter, more dangerous heatwaves. That means more heat deaths, more pressure on the NHS, more transport disruptions, and tougher work conditions."

We published 2 papers on exactly this, back in 2023...

So too does Jo White, the influential MP for Bassetlaw and chair of the red wall caucus. "Lifting the cap would be a retrograde step," she said. "The benefit system is there to support people when they're at their greatest need and should be there throughout life if needed, but the focus has to be on people working and putting a wage on the table and raising aspirations and opportunities through doing that. Having more children is a choice that you should make when the finances allow you to do so. If there's a system that allows you to keep on having children, then it enables you to remain on benefits for years and years."

The problem with this argument is that 100,000s of children become political collateral damage and condemned to the horrendous disadvantages of poverty.

Calls to implement legal maximum temperature that Brits shouldn't work above A report by the Autonomy Institute warns that two-thirds of the UK work force could find themselves working in heat waves above 35C by the end of the decade

NEW REPORT: 'The New Deal for Working People: Extreme Heat' 🌡️

Two-thirds of the UK workforce could find themselves working in heat waves above 35C by the end of the decade❗

Coverage in the Daily Mirror👇

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NEW REPORT:

remembering the few times the extractors broke at one restaurant i cheffed at, and the owner wouldn’t close despite it being over 40 degrees in the kitchen

Report here:

autonomy.work/wp-content/u...

Calls to implement legal maximum temperature that Brits shouldn't work above A report by the Autonomy Institute warns that two-thirds of the UK work force could find themselves working in heat waves above 35C by the end of the decade

NEW:

"Calls to implement legal maximum temperature that Brits shouldn't work above.

A report by the Autonomy Institute warns that two-thirds of the UK work force could find themselves working in heat waves above 35C by the end of the decade."

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Post-lavoro, un’utopia di libertà - Jacobin Italia Helen Hester e Will Stronge parlano della loro ricerca: come operare nella pratica il rifiuto del lavoro, la riduzione dell'orario, il rapporto con le tecnologie, le prospettive di genere e l'importan...

Post-lavoro, un’utopia di libertà jacobinitalia.it/post-lavoro-...

An interview with myself and @wstronge.bsky.social in Jacobin Italia.

This is an excellent intervention - nice work all involved👇🏻

As others have noted, this is very good on the developing neo-Thatcherite political consensus. Tomlinson is particularly strong on the bad history that underpins much of it

Excellent takedown of the incoherent reheated Thatcherism of Southwood, Bowman et al.

This piece by @jimtomlinson45.bsky.social is an important intervention that I’m really pleased to have published - a thorough dissection of the bad history underpinning the neo-Thatcherite “Foundations” project (which has unfortunately found acceptance on parts of the centre-left)

Built on Sand 07 Renewal 33.1_Tomlinson07 Renewal 33.1_Tomlinson.pdf111 KBdownload-circle A new paper by a group of influential rightwing thinktankers on Britain’s economic stagnation has garnered attention from...

This is an excellent critique of recent conservative thinking on the economy:

renewal.org.uk/articles/bui...

Let me get this straight: the Cass review wasn’t peer-reviewed yet was relied on by the government for major policy decisions - but now a critique of that review has been peer-reviewed and published, giving it more authority. Will government now be relying on this for policy? We all know the answer.

4 games I'd give 10/10

👇🏻Reserve your ticket to see Clive and other great speakers discuss common sense policies for food, water and energy reform:

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Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan Utility’s chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals ‘picking off’ staff

While people struggle to pay bills, Thames Water bosses pat themselves on the back, racking up debt, dodging responsibility & passing the cost to us.

They profit, we pay.

It's not enough to just stop bonuses.

This only gets fixed with public ownership.

www.ft.com/content/1f6d... #thameswater