calvin

Changing the world one word at a time. Staunch internationalist. Living on the beautiful island of South Uist. Music, politics, unions and r/Reading. Migrant.

[calvin @playedoutscenes]

If it’s Americana you want @freshnet you absolutely need @deanowens1 in there. Try ‘Born to Lose You’ by his old band The Felsons - as instantly familiar and as comfortable as slipping into a warm bath #NP6Music

[calvin @playedoutscenes]

Clicking links is not enough, &c, &c, &c

But it helps.

https://t.co/IMf4GbdQDb

[calvin @playedoutscenes]

Niche tweet, perhaps, but I'm very much enjoying https://t.co/zj4Naqf2rM's proclamation that 'We're not the Black Eyed PiS' https://t.co/Eroh5pzw0I

[calvin @playedoutscenes]

Breaking a period of Twitter silence to remind Sir Keir Starmer @labour that what will 'end the days of cheap labour' is national and sectoral collective bargaining with trade unions to ensure employers don't undercut each other.

Ends.

[Tom Jenkins @EUraTol]

John Monks @The_TUC tried, particularly like Peter Cassels @irishcongress , to promote #socialdialogue . But 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿adversarial ethos, including in industrial relations, put paid to that and we're still fighting the old class war instigated by the Tories and their lackeys. 2/2

[Mikey Smith @mikeysmith]

The Home Secretary arriving by military helicopter in war-torn <checks notes> Kent.

67 miles from London. Takes 1h11m to get there by train, at a cost of £11.30.

[calvin @playedoutscenes]

Oh, well now ....

[EverythingButTheGirl @ebtg]

Just thought you’d like to know that we have made a new Everything But The Girl album. It’ll be out next spring. Love, Ben and Tracey 😍

@ben_watt
@tracey_thorn

[calvin @playedoutscenes]

Great to hear Sam Redmore's 'slightly shorter' remix of Dan Hartman's 'Relight My Fire' on @CCfunkandsoul @BBC6Music, keeping the essential question - of 'When's Loleatta coming to the party?' - bubbling beautifully

[Living Rent Highlands and Islands @Living_Rent_HI]

Guess the islands with some of the worst population projections in the country.

The clue is that 50% of the homes are Holiday Homes and Second Homes.

[calvin @playedoutscenes]

A 'possible online poll' of Tory party members [depending on whether there's more than one candidate with enough nominations] to pick the next Prime Minister?

As a member of a trade union, to which elections are circumscribed by all kinds of rules on ballots, I'm speechless.

[Gordon Darroch @GordonDarroch]

We must be approaching the point where the Dutch government gets a call from London to stage a friendly invasion.

[Prospect Union @ProspectUnion]

Our Deputy Vice President Christine Danniell speaking on the gender pension gap at @The_TUC Congress. Pay & pension inequality for women is still very real #TUC22

[Black Trowel Collective @BlackTrowel]

Day 19: Recreate #Guthrie #archink #inktober2022
Fight fascists always and everywhere

[calvin @playedoutscenes]

In which I review Val McDermid's '1989'.

tl;dr I wanted to like this but outlandish plotting and a failure to blur the lines between imagination and reality meant I couldn't. Sadly. https://t.co/eiE6dGzuq6

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

"Working people are fed up of paying the price for this Government's mess - and they're simply not prepared to do it anymore."

- @FrancesOGrady

#TUC22

[David Mitchell @david_mitchell]

@playedoutscenes Thank you Calvin. What an atmospheric piece of writing. And I never knew about the link between whale bone oil and pre-industrial watchmaking.

[transfer @transfer_etui]

Given the complexity of inequalities in the climate-environment-social nexus, focusing just on one dimension of inequality will not result in a ‘just transition for all’ - Béla Galgóczi

➡️ https://t.co/nrDfOglVgo

[calvin @playedoutscenes]

So that's one more #'Britannia Unchained' author gone.

Just one more to go, then.

[calvin @playedoutscenes]

@cribsie @bluewhitewall Followed a week later by issue 27A, too

[calvin @playedoutscenes]

Here's my column for the summer 2022 edition of @bectu @ProspectUnion's Stage, Screen & Radio; looking at algorithms and labour market regulation in the UK.

Thank you for reading! https://t.co/po8eGLHfir