Jack Saundrs
Anarcho-syndicalist, labour historian (post-war motor industry, NHS). Author: Assembling Cultures (http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155979/) (he/him)
Blue and White Notes #itfc bluewhitenotes.beehiiv.com
- Reposted by Jack SaundrsThe latest racist spasm in UK politics would not have been complete without middlebrow white male pundits rushing to tell us all to calm down about it. The rise of fascism has been enabled at every turn by these people's pathetic incompetence and inability to name what is staring them in the face
- Find it extremely unlikely that the people who want to "slaughter the sacred cows of the Left" aren't being very deliberate when they choose provocative language.
- If you said something equivalently abhorrent about Israelis you would be blacklisted, chased from public life. If you were Muslim your organisation would be banned and you'd be put on a terror watchlist and followed by the security services for the rest of your life
- Probably not surprising that absent of strong collective bargaining, the thing that the state gets to just periodically hike up rises fastest
- In Britain, the fast-rising minimum wage is catching up with the bottom rungs of white-collar work. In fact, it appears that a rising number of people who earn annual salaries & don't work in low-paid sectors are now being paid below the legal minimum... www.ft.com/content/5f69...
- Reposted by Jack SaundrsIf you are anywhere vaguely on the left and were ever puzzled as to why people clung to Corbyn in spite of all its flaws, the answer is that they all knew this version of the Labour Party was what was waiting in the wings
- I remember having a long argument with a guy on a messageboard where he was very much "big number 😠😠" on immigration but insisted he wasn't against work visas, student visas or asylum and each time I'd suggest well, that's basically everyone he'd default back to "big number 😠😠"
- What would public choose on social care workers coming to Britain? Increase the numbers: 44% (18% a lot, 26% a little) Maintain current levels: 27% Reduce the numbers: 22% (11% reduce a lot, 11% a little) Focaldata for British Future (2nd - 6th May 2025) www.britishfuture.org/white-paper-...
- Reposted by Jack SaundrsHow nice to be told by Keir Starmer that my mother who delivered babies, as a midwife, worked nights and damaged her back lifting patients as a nurse, was a pillar of her community as a health visitor has caused “incalculable damage” to the UK !
- They've given this literally zero thought beyond one news cycle and their thoughts about how well it will go down in that one news cycle are probably wrong
- Reposted by Jack SaundrsWait so there’s a large number of trained care workers who were tricked into doing something else, and care companies just need to find them and let them be care workers? Is this a bit
- Defunct corporate spoons of my parent's kitchen
- I sometimes wonder if the view that media propaganda has the capacity to basically sell any political line if it wants to might be overblown. But the extent to which even the low hanging fruit bits of decarbonisation has successfully been made a wedge issue ...
- Utterly bizarre that at no point does this article define net zero, or explain that it is, according to the laws of physics, the only way to halt climate change www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
- Baked dog
- Really shows how Home Office mindset reduces migration to "big number 😠😠, small number 😊😊" - when presumably the largest contribution to this big number would, as now, be work and study visas THEY issue TO FULFIL THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT'S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AIMS
- Some common birds are too pretty to be common imo
- Reposted by Jack SaundrsUPDATE: OPEN LETTER - HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS In just 10 days, over 700 historians signed to demand MPs stand up for trans rights. I'll send the emails to MPs tomorrow, so you have until 5pm GMT *today* to sign + share. Thank you all 🏳️⚧️🫂🏳️⚧️ Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
- Love to be in the division where the 15th and 16th best teams are good enough to be the finalists in a continental cup competition 👍🏻
- I switched on Fiorentina-Betis and Fiorentina's Number 10 is playing with his socks down, feels wrong. Like they should retired rolled down socks in honour of Manuel Rui Costa
- Would be interesting if this person ever considered how this works flipped round... Are all the criticisms of state socialist societies inapplicable if they also happened in a capitalist society?
- It's genuinely incredible that you would talk and behave like this when your actual economic ideas have been the political consensus in this country for half a century
- (Everton v Ipswich blog) wrote about my one and only visit to the Goodison Park away end and why I hate it when clubs leave their proper home #itfc #efc bluewhitenotes.beehiiv.com/p/goodison-p...
- Managed to see both a hare in a gulley and a curlew fly high overhead today #ramblergoals
- Reposted by Jack SaundrsIt's 650 now. And darn right we have. Keep sharing and signing! tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
- Over 350 academic historians have signed an open letter condemning the Labour government’s treatment of trans people. www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/02/h...
- Less a zombie fact and more just part of the innate assumption on the Labour Right that everything that could possibly understood as left wing is innately unpopular, irrespective of polling
