• Up to half of 160,000 NHS beds could be turned over to private patients

    Updated: 2011-12-31 10:37:48
    Up to half of 160,000 NHS beds could be turned over to private patients

  • Government must focus on increasing successful adoption places - McKinnell

    Updated: 2011-12-31 10:37:48
    Catherine McKinnell MP, Labour's Shadow Minister for Children and Young Families, warning that the Government's shake-up of adoption laws must give top priority to placing children in happy homes, said:

  • Tory-led Government needs to get a grip on our examination system - Twigg

    Updated: 2011-12-31 10:37:48
    Stephen Twigg MP, Labour’ Shadow Education Secretary, responding to the preliminary report from Ofqual on the examination system, said:

  • Labour has been warning about the Government’s deep cuts to solar power - Flint

    Updated: 2011-12-31 10:37:48
    Caroline Flint MP, Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said in response to the High Court ruling that cuts to solar tariff payments are legally flawed:

  • Growing care crisis as charges for elderly home care top £7,000 a year

    Updated: 2011-12-31 10:37:48
    A new survey of care provided by local councils, published today by Labour, reveals shocking increases and wide disparities in charges for services for vulnerable elderly and disabled people.

  • Ed Miliband Appoints New Chief of Staff

    Updated: 2011-12-31 10:37:48
    Tim Livesey is to join Ed Miliband’ office as the Labour Leader’ Chief of Staff.

  • GDP figures show the economy has been flatlining over the last 12 months - Reeves

    Updated: 2011-12-31 10:37:48
    Rachel Reeves MP, Labour’ Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said in response to today’ revised GDP figures:

  • The only good headlines this Tory-led Government can get on health are for ideas they've stolen from Labour - Burnham

    Updated: 2011-12-31 10:37:48
    Andy Burnham MP, Labour’ Shadow Health Secretary, responding to reports that the Department of Health has proposed that everyone aged between 40 and 72 will be offered a regular free ‘ealth MoT’by their local authority, said:

  • Sale of BMI raises serious concerns about competition and the connectivity on which Scotland’s economy depends – Curran & Eagle

    Updated: 2011-12-31 10:37:48
    Margaret Curran MP, Labour’ Shadow Scottish Secretary, and Maria Eagle MP, Labour’ Shadow Transport Secretary, have responded to the proposed sale of British Midland Limited (BMI) to International Airlines Group (IAG).

  • ToUChstone blog: 2012: Europe needs a new social compact to challenge the crisis

    Updated: 2011-12-31 08:02:33
    European Union countries face a return to recession [...]

  • Stronger Unions: Tunisian trade unionists elect new leaders

    Updated: 2011-12-31 07:46:02
    What were you doing on Christmas Day? Your [...]

  • Hayes People's History: Richard Bell MP - Life & Death in the Shadow of Kier Hardie

    Updated: 2011-12-31 01:12:14
    Richard Bell was with Kier Hardie the first elected Labour Members of Parliament at the General election of 1900, however while Hardie has become a household name little is know of Richard Bell.read more

  • Jon's union blog: Led by a Star

    Updated: 2011-12-30 23:27:00
    Mark Serwotka, commenting on the pensions dispute, issues a timely warning against defeatism in tomorrow's Morning Star (http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/113639)read more

  • Jon's union blog: A flawed defence of UNISON

    Updated: 2011-12-30 21:02:00
    Some folk get confused when reading a criticism of the tactics of the leadership of a trade union, and wrongly conclude that this amounts to an attack upon the trade union itself. Such is today theread more

  • "Bread and Roses" Strike Centennial

    Updated: 2011-12-30 10:18:00
    Hat-tip to UNISONActive for their post on the Centennial anniversary next year of the "Bread and Roses" Textile Factory Strike in the United States. Check out this link for the AFL-CIO site and video. ouTube clip f the Boston Workmen's Circle A Besere Velt (A Better World) Yiddish...

  • Nuisance calls

    Updated: 2011-12-30 10:08:38
    [29/35] Robot phone man Originally uploaded by B. Tse We had started getting an increasing number of nuisance calls, mainly recordings being played to us several times a day. So on the 30th of November, I signed up for a free service to avoid nuisance calls, the Telephone Preference Service. The website wrote that it [...]

  • Health and Safety Christmas Myths

    Updated: 2011-12-29 16:03:00
    Check out the list of Christmas "myths" (or rather omplete porkies and distortions) about health and safety. This "Top 10" list was compiled by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).  The same old (dare I say) chestnuts are here - such as children being banned from having snowball...

  • Libel Reform and the Queen's Speech

    Updated: 2011-12-28 22:27:00
    Last week the Libel Reform Campaign sent out a letter calling on its supporters to contact their MP to try and make sure that libel reform is included in the next Queen's speech. Various people who have been subject to the madness that is nglish Libel law igned the letter including Dave...

  • Today's front-page story about "NHS cuts" reveals the Guardian to be an upmarket version of the Sunday Sport

    Updated: 2011-12-28 00:58:41
    : SEARCH Blog Journalism Books Film Radio Toby's School Wednesday 28th December 2011 Today's front-page story about NHS cuts reveals the Guardian to be an upmarket version of the Sunday Sport Slightly baffling headline on the front page of today’s Guardian : Four out of five doctors say cuts to NHS have affected patient care . Er , what cuts Is the Guardian really unaware that the government has pledged to increase the NHS’s annual budget in England by 0.1 in real terms year-on-year until the end of this Parliament Moreover , no one has yet produced any convincing evidence that the government has broken that promise . If they had , that would be a legitimate Guardian front-page story . But no . The Guardian has decided to pretend that that story has already broken and , instead , is

  • "Can pension funds shape the future of capitalism?"

    Updated: 2011-12-27 21:57:00
    Catching up on things. Last month I went straight from the TUC Trustee Pension Conference to the air Pension's Guest Lecture at the House of Commons. This was the second presentation I had been to that day on "Capitalism and pensions". I was with a notoriously quiet and reserved UNISON...

  • Christmas Day Walk 2011: Wanstead Flats and Wanstead Park

    Updated: 2011-12-27 13:48:00
    Off message but it's Christmas! anorama picture overlooking Ornamental Waters, Wanstead Park rom bottom of "The Long Walk". This tree on the left has been leaning towards the lake for as long as I can remember.  I've posted some more pics from this walk on Facebook here.

  • Amaias sprog

    Updated: 2011-12-27 00:21:07
    Homemade bread and butter Originally uploaded by PhylB Amaia har nu i nogle måneder haft et ret udtryksfuldt sprog. Det er tydeligt baseret på engelsk (i meget højere grad end Annas), selvom hun naturligvis forstår dansk aldeles fremragende). Her er hendes mest almindelige ord: ai øje, øre eye airin ørering eye + ring ˈaisi vis [...]

  • London Marathon Training 2012 Wk 9: Leyton Flats and Eagle Pond.

    Updated: 2011-12-26 21:30:00
    Training went “okay” (except there were two sprint interval training sessions!) and there was the extra benefit of being able to run off all the Xmas Party hangovers. Except I’m a little worried about my Achilles tendon in my left foot which is giving me a it of gip. I’ve had a problem...

  • Merry Christmas

    Updated: 2011-12-25 00:25:00
    < Hat tip thingy Stroppybird.

  • A Christmas Carol 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-24 20:00:00
    This is a modern day “A Christmas Carol” tale. Christmas this year must be looking pretty bleak for the 1000 carers and their families employed by Family Mosaic Housing Association. Their employer is trying to cut their wages by up to 35% in some cases. According to their own figures 242 carers...

  • Virgin Scumbag Brand: My New Year's Resolution 2012

    Updated: 2011-12-23 22:24:00
    I have finally had it with Branson and the Virgin brand. Check out the Left Foot Forward exposure of Richard Branson the Union buster. nbsp;He fronts a video to Virgin America Airline staff telling them not to vote to recognise a trade union. Trade Union recognition is a basic human right...

  • Labour, Trade unions, SPGB, the Anarchist President, Bill, Dave and John

    Updated: 2011-12-22 22:46:00
    Last month I took part in a debate organised by the Socialist Party (Great Britain) on "Should trade unionists support the Labour Party?" They did record the event and I was hoping to link to it, but it seems that there was some technical problem. Which was a shame since I thought it was actually...

  • Jon's Union blog: 0 false false false

    Updated: 2011-12-20 22:58:00
    Jon's Union blog: "...0 false false false..." This is a screen print from the TIGMOO website tonight. Double click to bring up details. I'm sure that there is some perfectly innocent explanation for this simply outrageous smear on the integrity of our dear sarf London coastal leader. :)

  • Fidelity: the big bad wolf?

    Updated: 2011-12-20 20:23:00
    I haven't had a pop at Fidelity Fund managers for a while. So being Christmas and all that...I thought it was about time I had a go at one of the biggest single political donors to the Conservative Party. Now, Fidelity is a private company and if they want to give money to the Tories then fair...

  • Update on Pensions

    Updated: 2011-12-20 17:08:00
    Following recent developments over Public Service pensions I thought I would give my take on things. There has been lot of excited and largely ill-informed ostulating. On Friday the main local government unions UNISON, Unite and the GMB greed "a joint statement on discussions on a new...

  • Det danske parallelle univers

    Updated: 2011-12-20 11:23:34
    Måske er jeg ved at blive for præget af det dystre økonomiske billede, man præsenteres for overalt i Storbritannien i disse år, men jeg var lige ved at få kaffen galt i halsen, da jeg så dette indslag i Jyllands-Posten: For det første ville det undre mig, om nogen britisk bank ville låne en husejer [...]

  • In memoriam: Kim Jong-Il

    Updated: 2011-12-20 10:49:50
    : : SEARCH Blog Journalism Books Film Radio Toby's School Tuesday 20th December 2011 In memoriam : Kim Jong-Il COMMENT COMMENTS SO FAR : 0 FIXED LINK EMAIL TO A FRIEND RT chads999 Still , Alan Hansen's got nothing on Tony Cascarino's Traore at right-back is having a holocaust link ma 18 minutes ago Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Wikipedia IMdb Email BEST OF THE WEB Profit need not be a dirty word in education by Fraser Nelson telegraph.co.uk Dirty Hari by Jonathan Foreman nosacredcows.co.uk Osbornism by Matthew D'Ancona thisislondon.co.uk Can Michael Gove save Britain's schools by Simon Heffer Daily Mail Restore elitism to our schools says Michael Gove Daily Mail Profile of Angela Merkel by Jon Henley Guardian Rod Liddle : Liberal Fundamentalist independent.co.uk Is UKIP about to become the

  • Port Adelaide and Ramsay By-elections

    Updated: 2011-12-20 04:11:09
    Link to profiles for the Port Adelaide and Ramsay by-election in South Australia.

  • Big Bad Mikey sings Goodbye-ee

    Updated: 2011-12-19 08:00:00
    (Warning: this is an internal Newham thing) Big Bad Mikey who posted as "I love Newham Labour Group" (or something like that) sings "Goodbye-ee to blogging" alongside his old partner in crime Newham Tory miniture.  They will be sadly missed. How can we now show how completely useless the...

  • London Marathon 2012 Training Wk 8: West Ham Ward

    Updated: 2011-12-18 23:18:00
    I pulled a muscle in my back ast week so was  it tender but managed to keep to the training programme. While out running I was shocked to see that there had been a serious fire in the tower block Fred Wigg House, which overlooks Wanstead Flats. Thankfully no-one was hurt, but as a...

  • Occupy St Pauls (1887 style)

    Updated: 2011-12-18 13:20:00
    Hat tip to Hayes People History post on an early anti-capitalist protest nd "occupation" at St Pauls Cathedral by the Social Democratic Federation on 27 February 1887. "In 1886 and 1887 the Social Democratic Federation conducted a broad campaign of agitation among London's unemployed. The...

  • Pay up to £1750 fee to take your employer to court: A Bullies' Charter

    Updated: 2011-12-16 00:28:00
    The Tory led coalition are planning to charge workers up £1750 to taketheir employer to an employment tribunal. ever mind the cost of hiring a solicitor or barrister to represent you. Remember you cannot get legal aid foremployment cases and that you cannot claim your legal costs even...

  • Jessie Jackson 70th Birthday Party in UNISON HQ

    Updated: 2011-12-15 08:00:00
    Last night UNISON hosted a 70th Birthday Party in honour of Rev Jessie Jackson at the NISON Centre in Euston, London. Our President Eleanor Smith introduced Rev Jackson and Keith Vas MP. Labour Leader Ed Miliband was the keynote peaker. This fantastic song was sung live by the Rev...

  • December Focus call announced: 2011 in review, looking ahead to 2012

    Updated: 2011-12-14 11:22:50
    We are pleased to announce that the final RESULTS Focus Call of 2011 will take place on Tuesday 20th December, at 7pm. The call will be facilitated by Felix Jakens with Aaron Oxley, Executive Director of RESULTS also speaking. Continue reading →

  • The veto

    Updated: 2011-12-13 22:53:38
    Angielski punkt widzenia Originally uploaded by eisenbahner I’ve been wanting to blog about Cameron’s diplomatic disaster ever since it happened, but I’ve found it hard to write anything that hasn’t already been written better elsewhere. However, I don’t think this blog will be complete without at least one posting on this topic, so here’s my [...]

  • Family Mosaic UNISON members vote for Strike Ballot

    Updated: 2011-12-13 21:24:00
    "UNISON members at Family Mosaic Housing Association have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a formal ballot for strike action. The consultative ballot result comes shortly after Family Mosaic’s senior management issued letters of dismissal to all staff members who have not signed new contracts...

  • The end of AIDS? : A film of hope.

    Updated: 2011-12-13 10:34:34
    The Stop AIDS Campaign has crafted a short film about the current stage of the global response to HIV/AIDS. Continue reading →

  • Should David Cameron call a snap election?

    Updated: 2011-12-13 03:23:01
    : SEARCH Blog Journalism Books Film Radio Toby's School Tuesday 13th December 2011 Should David Cameron call a snap election Should David Cameron call an election That's the question asked this morning by Ian Birrell , Cameron's former speech writer , who thinks he should . There are three main arguments in favour . First , the Tories got a bounce in the polls following the dramatic events of last Friday . The latest YouGov Sun poll , for instance , puts the Conservatives on 39 Labour on 40 and the Lib Dems on 10 a pattern echoed in other recent polls . Second , the Labour Party is in a weak position . Inside the Westminster bubble , Ed Miliband's stock rises and falls according to his dispatch box performances , but in the real world voters show no signs of warming to him . Third , the

  • Climate finance at the Durban Climate Change Conference

    Updated: 2011-12-12 00:38:06
    The UNFCCC climate negotiations concluded last week. What was being discussed that would affect the millions of the world's small hold farmers? Continue reading →

  • 2012 Queensland Election - Retiring Members

    Updated: 2011-12-11 23:47:35
    Who are the members to so far announce they will not contest the Queensland election in 2012.

  • Daily Mail "clarifications & corrections"

    Updated: 2011-12-11 23:04:00
    So, so true...The Daily Mail is completely and utterly vile and hateful. (double click on scan to bring up detail). Hat tip thingy Rupa.

  • TUC Trustee Conference 2011: Auto enrolement

    Updated: 2011-12-11 17:52:00
    Catch up from last month's TUC Pension Trustee conference "People & Profits". I went to a useful workshop by the Pensions Regulator on "Auto-enrolment and workplace pensions reform - the role of trustees". I don't think (in fact I am pretty certain) that many people realise that in a...

  • Nordic Horizons

    Updated: 2011-12-10 23:18:35
    noctilucent clouds Originally uploaded by kanelstrand The newspapers have recently been full of stories about how an independent Scotland will try to move closer to Scandinavia. I think it started with this article in The Independent, which was their mostly commented article for days. Then a journalist called Lesley Riddoch wrote this article in The [...]

  • Final Results for the New Zealand Election Released

    Updated: 2011-12-09 13:37:51
    Final figures have been released for the New Zealand election. The governing National Party loses a seat to the Greens, producing a finally divided parliament that increases prospects for the Maori Party being brought into government.

  • Recording of RESULTS December conference call now available: The Global Fund in Crisis

    Updated: 2011-12-09 13:35:18
    We are pleased to announce that a recording of our December conference call is now available for download. Click here to access the file. Continue reading →

  • I drook it all

    Updated: 2011-12-08 23:15:39
    Drunk! Originally uploaded by andrew_mc_d Anna (der fylder 4 den 19.) sagde i dag spontant “I drook it all”. Jeg er ikke helt sikker på, hvordan hun dannede “drook”. Hvis det blot er påvirkning fra dansk “drak”, skulle hun vel have sagt “I drack it all”, men hun ser ud til at rodet bøjningen af [...]

  • Saving the Global Fund: Saving millions of lives.

    Updated: 2011-12-08 00:07:27
    Yesterday evening in the Houses of Parliament, the three All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) on global tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, and malaria, joined together to host a discussion on the current state and possible future of the Global Fund to fight … Continue reading →

  • Scotland and Scandinavia superimposed

    Updated: 2011-12-07 22:56:34
    On a normal map it’s difficult to see how far north Scotland is compared to Scandinavia. To illustrate it better, I generated two Google maps of the same latitudes, just 15 degrees apart, and then superimposed them in the Gimp. You can see the result on the right (click on it for a larger version). [...]

  • The Danish-Scottish Christmas party

    Updated: 2011-12-06 22:42:05
    Amaia, Léon and Anna at the Danish Xmas party Originally uploaded by viralbus I joined the Danish-Scottish Society shortly after moving to Scotland, but I was not a very active member due to the fact that almost all events took place in Edinburgh (which seems to have a much bigger Danish community than Glasgow). For [...]

  • Time for UEFA to revert to goal difference in Champions League

    Updated: 2011-12-06 18:48:41
    My head is hurting after all the mathematics that has been needed to work out qualification chances.

  • New TB vaccine enters clinical trials

    Updated: 2011-12-06 11:40:14
    New tools like drugs, diagnostics and vaccines are badly needed in the fight against tuberculosis (TB). The current tools are decades old, so it is with much anticipation that a new tuberculosis vaccine, aimed at latent TB infection, has entered phase 1 clinical trials. Continue reading →

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