Lester Holloway

The Green Party leadership election so far…

Adrian -
Likes: Collecting the rent
Doesn’t like: Zack

Zack -
Likes: Adrian
Doesn’t like: Extractive capitalism, inequality

Ellie -
Likes: ???
Doesn’t like: ???

🤔 Zero-hours contracts. All about flexibility right?
😃 They sure seem to work for the employers
😡 But for many workers they often mean insecurity, low pay, and worse rights
⛔ Labour's Employment Rights Bill needs end #ZeroHours contracts. No ifs. No buts!

If the OBR accept the white paper's projection that the measures will lead to a 100k drop in net migration then that will create an additional £2.5 billion hole in the next forecast.

Pope Leo XIV's grandparents were 7th Ward Creoles The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists at The Historic New Orleans Collection.

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.

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Yet legal union-busting tactics by bosses carry with it the implicit (and often explicit) threat of such illegal discrimination.

This is something one would expect a governing party with the word 'labour' in it to fix...

It is only illegal to actively discriminate against individual workers specifically because of their union membership or union activities.

In the UK, it is still legal for employers to use intimidation to stop workers joining unions, frustrate the formation of unions in the workplace, and refuse to recognise (ie negotiate with) unions.

It is time for the UK to bring our anti-union busting laws up to the level of the 'land of the free', the United States.

Solidarity with @appleutaw.bsky.social @utaw.tech #Cambridge in their fight for union recognition from #Apple.

See @novaramedia.com article: novaramedia.com/2025/05/08/a...

How it started.
How it's going.

#NoToVoterID

Voted this morning and took in a bit of local greenery 💚 #PeopleAndPlanet #ForTheMany

Oxford dons ‘drank wine from skull of a slave woman’ A silver chalice made with a sawn-off human skull was used regularly at formal dinners at Worcester College until 2015, according to a museum curator

This macabre ritual is a reminder of the grim reality that many institutions continue to collect, hold and display human remains looted from enslaved and colonised peoples.

It highlights the urgent need for new laws to tackle this.

Today is Stephen Lawrence Day - a day to reflect, honour and celebrate the legacy of his life.

Let us support the Stephen Lawrence Foundation @sldayfdn and all the wonderful work they do to improve the lives of young people.

#Wewillneveforgetstephenlawrence

Comparing Man United and Man City's total net spends since 2008 After watching their team struggle on the pitch in recent years, Manchester United fans have been highly critical of the Glazer family and their lack of investment.

United have spent £1.1215 BILLION on players (net) since 2008/9, only marginally less than neighbours City, who spent £1.2708 bn in this period.

They've spent sooo much, but what is there to show for all this cash at Old Trafford? Nothing!

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Okay, midfielder Fernandes is ranked 5th on FPL points, but the next highest United mid is 30th (Amad).

All this underlines just how poor the whole team is. Singling out Onana won't solve their problems, which are deep-seated.

André Onana to start against Lyon but Ruben Amorim may eye new goalkeeper André Onana will resume in goal for Manchester United against Lyon on Thursday but his manager said: ‘We need to improve every position. Goalkeeper is the same’

Like Rashford before him, Onana is the scapegoat for a shockingly bad team.

Onana actually has the 4th highest points on FPL so far this season. The highest ranking United defender is 24th (Dalot), and striker (Zirkzee) is 22nd.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

A person who have *fully* transitioned from a man to a woman (eg hormones, genitalia) *is* a biological woman. The assumption that people who are assigned a gender at birth can only be that gender is scientifically wrong.

Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media Former PM says she wants to protect free speech after being ‘cut off at the knees’ by ‘the elite’ while at No 10

The posts will disappear after 49 days 🥬

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's simply not true for Birmingham Council to suggest @unitetheunion.bsky.social don't want to negotiate the end to the bin strike. The Town Hall simply need to come up with a better offer for workers, end of.

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4.5 million children in poverty demand action There are going to be 4.5 million children living in poverty in the UK soon, with Labour's policies increasing that number by at least 250,000. I continue to be shocked by these statistics. In a coun...

We should be shocked, humiliated and ashamed that 4.5 million children live in poverty in the UK and that Labour is planning to increase this number by conscious choice. Radical action is needed. No child deserves this. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

Glad the Sentencing Council are standing up (a) for the independence of the judiciary, and against bullying by a government preoccupied with simping to Daily Mail faux-outrage about ‘woke’; and (b) calling out the nonsensical criticism of SC guidelines.

www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/wp-content/u...

I was banned from TYT... YouTube video by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)

Uh oh....
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So sad to hear that Alex Wheatle - celebrated author and ‘Brixton Bard’ - has passed on. Such an inspiring man, with a golden heart. His novel Brixton Rock was a masterpiece. Rest in peace King 👑 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

The parallels between apartheid South Africa and modern-day Palestine were explored today by Dr Wesam Amer (Dean of the Faculty of Communications at Gaza University, and Associate Fellow at Homerton College), and Moyra Samuel (veteran anti-apartheid activist).

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Homerton College’s 3-day Symposium on Gender, Power & Culture is starting now, with a warm welcome from Dr Georgina Horrell! #GBVSymposium #CambridgeEvent #HomertonCollege #GenderPowerCulture

And that's before even considering that Black people are more likely to be caught (ie white people are more likely to get away with crime) due to much higher police stop and search, and intimate search, rates. 4/

By opposing such a milktoast measure - asking judges simply to recognise the ethnicity of those they are sentencing - this trio are actually telling us they want Black people to continue to be given longer jail terms for the same crime. 3/

It says a lot that the head of the equality watchdog, Baroness Kishwer Falkner (appointed as a LibDem), Labour's Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch are all so against a measure that does not even deal with disproportionate sentencing of Black people. 2/

Watchdog suggests alleged ‘two-tier’ sentencing guidelines may breach Equality Act – UK politics live Lady Falkner, chair of the EHRC, says moves run the risk of positive discrimination

The Sentencing Council’s guidelines doesn't deal with disproportionate custody, longer jail terms, or imbalances in entering the criminal justice system in the first place. It's simply a reminder for judges to be aware biases exist, and do their job fairly. 1/

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