UK background politics thread

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

Is that site at all legit? Is Mark Curtis not fairly dodge in some of his views?

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.

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/

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

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.