Drams, dams and endangered salmon | Letter
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Drams, dams and endangered salmon | Letter
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
This morning's thread on one page:
skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
A few years ago we had 9 house Martin nests on our house in the Highlands. Today we have none😡
Highland Hotspurs making a splash in the Strathspey and Badenoch Herald #coys
Sorry we missed you in Bilbao
On my way to Bilbao from Inverness via London and Bordeaux! #coys
Unite the Union poised to write down its assets by £60mn - in its first accounts for four years - amid two ongoing scandals at one of Britain’s biggest unions
www.ft.com/content/9e17...
Best news for ages
Or you could mention Saudi money and sportswahing given no one else is!
Pity the PM is a Woolwich fan!
Penny for the thoughts of Gordon Brown on Labour PM successor Keir Starmer slashing internationa aid?
One banner in particular seemed antiemetic and had that been a guardian cartoon the cartoonist would probably have been sacked
Inside Britain’s fascist fight club: secret footage shows far-right group preparing for ‘race war’ - ITV News
Liz Truss crashed the economy.
Her lawyers are welcome to get in touch. Good luck lads.
He is the golf correspondent who is a big Hearts fan and wrote the same crap about Ange when he was at Celtic.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
When Millwall was my local team I watched them when Docherty was manager and took them to first division. Will never forget the chant ‘Docherty Out’ after one poor performance. A lesson to all fans to be patient with their manager #coys
Dead within 24 hours of a lung cancer diagnosis, award-winning firefighter Jeff Simpson's widow believes exposure to toxic substances and a lack of protection contributed to his death.
Fear not enough was done, perhaps still isn't, to protect fire crews.
fire-magazine.co.uk/firefighters...
You will get similar views from the away end!
Bellyaching and scaremongering from feather-bedded landowners and farmers is hammered by this
@theifs.bsky.social analysis.
Nails guff about huge forced sales, food shortages, etc.
Govt estimates tax changes raise £550m but they still enjoy £1.8bn in breaks.
ifs.org.uk/articles/inh...
Team news locked in 🔒
Excellent as ever - need for a Land Tax to deal wealth of the über rich dodging tax
www.labourland.org/wp-content/u...
Oh...
"Clive Bailye, one of the five farmers who organised the march in the capital, wrote: 'only a disabled, unemployed, black, LGBT, transgender, non tax paying, homeless, vegan immigrant in immediate need of NHS help' would vote Labour."
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
I loved Donald Dewars description of Blair and Prescott as Bambi and Thumper!
RIP Prezza, Thumper, Two Jags.
The working class lad, ocean liner waiter and trade unionist who was the UK's longest-serving Deputy PM had an incredible life.
"John Prescott dies aged 86 after Alzheimer's battle."
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Trump
Labour would bring back winter fuel payments in Scotland, says Anas Sarwar, but tapered so wealthy get less, @libbybrooks.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
memo to farmers protesting today, if you’re desperate to hand your farm to your offspring then give it to them while you’re still alive, panic over, so long as you live another 7 years there’s no inheritance tax
Introducing my dog Connie. Named after Constance Markievicz