Tuesday, June 18, 2024
With a little over two weeks until the general election, I’m feeling a real mix of excitement and worry. I’m excited at the very real chance that the Tories will be decimated and kept out of office for the foreseeable. I’m worried that indifference and overconfidence will keep many away from the …🗳️ These local election and by-election results are giving me life this morning.
Schadenfreude? Absolutely. I’m hoping the assorted thugs, bigots and idiots in Downing Street had a very, very sleepless night.
Next up: Sunak calls a general election and we wipe the Tories off the map.
Saturday, September 16, 2023 →
Oh. It looks like the Tories are going to fuck up another infrastructure project. What a surprise. Sunak knows he’ll never have to depend on public transport. He’s above such things. He just hops in a helicopter…
“Ending the line at Old Oak Common is pretty much the definition of a railway to nowhere.”
HS2’s Euston station at risk as Old Oak Common emerges as potential London terminus
Just spotted that Tony Bennett has died
During a career that spanned seven decades, the crooner sold millions of records and won 20 Grammys, including a lifetime achievement award.
I was lucky enough to see him perform live at the Royal Albert Hall many years ago and was blown away by his energy and his sense of humour. He was a giant of popular music.
Spotted on my walk around Shoreditch this morning…
Of course these reactionary Tories are against anything that could improve working lives. They spread an over-simplified, fear-based message and propagate it with dark money from fascists in the US.
A rightwing lobby group that doesn’t declare its donors is spearheading a campaign to undermine the spread of the four-day week in the UK.
Rightwing lobby group campaigns to undermine UK four-day week, The Guardian.
Picturing Suella Braverman weeping into her coffee this morning:
“The court heard from UNHCR that Rwanda had a record of human rights abuses towards refugees within its borders, including refoulement – forced removal to countries where they are at risk – expulsions and arbitrary detention. The refugee agency warned that the Home Office would not be able to guarantee the safety of asylum seekers who were deported to the east African country.”