In a development that I’m sure will shock everyone, Mughal was revealed yesterday to have been using official the Tell Mama Twitter account to slide into the DMs of various teenage girls.
Mark Curtis has a new thing for looking at the intersection of politics, the intelligence services and military:
https://mobile.twitter.com/declassifiedUK
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
Is that site at all legit? Is Mark Curtis not fairly dodge in some of his views?
― gyac, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.gmgoodemploymentcharter.co.uk/
Greater Manchester Combined Authority getting some big employers to sign up to a good employment charter which includes the living wage and more scrutiny on flexible working and effectively banning zero hour contracts in their invidious form. I'll be interested to see how this pans out as it seems a good test of how effective Labour can work regionally. I have to say Burnham has been good so far.
― ogmor, Friday, 7 February 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
privatization in action
The privatisation of children’s services is gathering pace, and it is attracting the worst kind of investor (thread) 1/— Martin Barrow (@MartinBarrow) February 18, 2020
impressively ugly site: https://www.wealthclub.co.uk/eis-investments/dimensions-care-eis/
― ogmor, Thursday, 20 February 2020 09:42 (four years ago) link
https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/news/pretty-vacant-new-report-on-londons-housing-april-2020
some good proposals for beginning to get a handle on housing
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 3 May 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/04/dalian-atkinson-murdered-in-street-by-police-officer-jury-hears
Possibly might result in the first conviction of a police office related to a death in custody since 1971. Most cases don’t get this far.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/april/1782-deaths-but-no-convictions
If the jury doesn’t convict, it’ll increase the perception that they never will where serving police are concerned.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 13:13 (three years ago) link