WEEK 33: Cambridge for Palestine marched through the centre of town today to deliver an open letter - signed by 2,500 of its faculty, students, and staff - demanding that it disclose and divest from all ties to the ethnofascist state of Israel.
Team Starmer & the unions have come away from their summit today all suggesting that they have reached a deal on the New Deal for Working People, which the unions assert has seen a recommitment to its original shape & goals.
From cynics corner this looks like both sides deciding this argument can wait until after the election & for now it will pay to be seen not to be squabbling...
So, if/once labour gain power, the debate on workers rights will quickly flare up (again)
So the Migrant Advisory Committee, after a 14 week investigation has found 'no evidence' of any deliberate abuse of the international student visa scheme;
they're coming here to study.
As the FT delicately puts it:
this has 'placed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a bind, forcing him to either confront those on the Conservative right who want it scrapped, or ignore the advisory group'!
Watch this space.... which way he jumps will tell us a lot about the future of the (rump of) the Tory party
@glynmoody Particularly awks for our current unelected Foreign Secretary, whose daddy left him a not inconsiderable amount of dosh floating around those very crown dependencies - remember when he appeared in the Paradise Papers?
@Roadwarrior29 Red Eye's pretty good. A bit of cheese thrown in and some clunky dialogue, but worth the watch.
Saying that, I'll have forgotten it existed in about 48hrs 🤣
The BoE will be (I should think) suggesting interest rates should not go down yet, after ONS reported wage rises remained at 5.7% over the last 3 months.
But, a focus on nominal wages is misleading; it takes no account of inflation adjusted real wages, that continue to lag behind pre-austerity levels & so by only focussing on recent months underplays (obscures) that wages are catching up previous loses....
So prepare for a longer wait for interest rates to drop
WEEK 33: Currently outside the Israel bonds building in downtown Philly.
Edit: This is part of a wider protest organised by Jewish Voice for Peace Philly.
WEEK 33: Last night at the SOAS encampment.
Screenshot comes from an Instagram story by one of the Zionists, Aaron Ibrahim.
Speaking of the sleeping student protesters, he said "Bring them in like cockroaches, and then we destroy the cockroaches."
Via MintPress News
@moftasa It's certainly blatant racist propaganda given a wide distribution by someone with millions of followers that can easily be interpreted as justification for genocide, yes.