Breaking my Twitter sabbatical to the share this exciting first evaluation report on the #BasicIncome pilot.

Thanks Autonomy for the thread below. Very helpful and worth a gander for those of you who haven’t seen it.

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Future Gen Cymru | Basic Income Earth

There’s so much misinformation and bigotry flying around on this site atm.

Way more than usual - for obvious reasons.

Taking a break from it. Will occasionally check DMs.

It is absolutely astonishing that the BBC thought that this was an acceptable way to an approach an interview with someone who has lost 6 relatives.

This is just one example of how the Palestinians are being completely dehumanised by the British media.

BREAKING: Amazon faces the biggest day of strike action in company history as GMB Union announce four fresh industrial action dates at Coventry.

More than 1,000 Amazon workers are set to strike on 7, 8 and 9 November, as well as Black Friday - 24 November.

Superb response at 4 minutes 30 seconds.

“Thatcher did loads of things that benefited the trade unions”

😅

That’s got to be up there with the stupidest comment ever made.

BREAKING: Labour Conference votes to support public ownership of energy ⚡️

Delegates defy Labour leadership by voting overwhelmingly in favour of motion from Unite the union: join a union, ASLEF & TSSA 👊

Probably the best thing I’ve read / watched over the last two days.

In the midst of war, Benjamin Netanyahu is a liability who can only make things worse. He must go theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Looking forward to this…

⚠️Caution ⚠️the GMB are handing this flyer out to attendees of the Amazon sponsored ‘Growing Together: Unlocking Productivity Through Business Collaboration’ event at Labour Party conference

Tata Steel confirmed Port Talbot will convert to coal-less steelworks to cut CO2... but workers & Unions were shut out of negotiations in stunning example of how *not* to do #JustTransition . Up to 3,000 workers due to lose jobs as result.
Read more: coalaction.org.uk/2023/10/09/por…

After the last Wilko stores closed yesterday, new GMB Union analysis shows that 420,000 brick-and-mortar retail jobs have been lost since 2010.

GMB is calling for the replacement of business rates and better support for workers when companies fail 👇

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NEW: More than 420,000 traditional retail jobs have been lost since 2010, sparking fears that the high street may be in ‘terminal decline’.

GMB Union analysis shows a 28% decline.

Comes as 12,500 Wilko workers lose their jobs after the much-loved chain collapsed.

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We’re useless. End of.

Trainspotting parodies usually bore the shit out of me, but I quite like this one.

Will the Sunak do a deal with the devil?

Offer Farage a safe Tory seat and possibly a cabinet job in the hope his campaigning skills can turn it around for the Tories.

Hard for Starmer to knock Farage when he’s so popular in red wall seats…

Oof.