Rob Cain @cain_rob@qoto.org

RT @MrJohnNicolson
Pleased and relieved that we’ve managed to stop Channel 4 privatisation again.

Robbing Channel 4 of its independence has been an obsession for some right wing Tories. But it's never made commercial or production sense.

RT @RajeshPNRao
Excited to announce my perspective article on a sensory-motor theory of the neocortex based on active predictive coding: each cortical area learns a sensory-motor of the world at a particular level of abstraction, with higher areas modulating lower areas.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.30.522267v1

RT @johan_elf_
Our paper on how a significant fraction of bacteria keeps growing many generations at lethal concentrations of antibiotics, and how this contributes to resistance development, is freely available at PNAS https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216216120

RT @MartinSLewis
A quick terminology explanation.

Inflation is a measure of how quickly prices rise. If you halve inflation prices will still rise, just less quickly.

So halving inflation would still mean things are more expensive than they are now.

RT @_StuNicol_
The full story of Russia's influence over the Conservative party and Brexit by the wonderful @peterjukes
Putin's Brexit Coup, by @BylineTimes https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinesupplement/p/putins-brexit-coup?r=1v0c0j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

RT @mcsquared34
The war against the homeless and poor

RT @dave43law
Emily Maitlis just completely owned Grant 4 names over the prospective anti strike legislation
#ToriesOut182 #SunakOut73 #GeneralElectionNow
#NHSCrisis #NHSOnLifeSupport https://twitter.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1611039737795719168

RT @WiringTheBrain
A short thread on the thermodynamics of self-organisation 🧵 https://twitter.com/WiringTheBrain/status/1610728155613913091

RT @jeremycorbyn
The 1970 Equal Pay Act.

Higher wages.

A shorter working day.

Strikes have secured victories for us all. Today, a worker's fundamental right to withdraw their labour is under threat from arcane Tory legislation.

Sign the petition to fight back. https://wesayenough.co.uk/petition/

RT @PeterWillsman
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) -
*UK economy contracted by 0.3% in the three months to Sept.
*Average rents unaffordable at average incomes in three regions. *Business investment lower than previously estimated.

RT @simonharris_mbd
If I was Prime Minister, pupils would study home ec / cookery until 18, not sodding Pythagoras.

RT @docrussjackson
Gentle reminder of which policies are incredibly popular in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, & the USA, & also a reminder that just 29% of the UK electorate voted Tory in 2019.

This is why, imho, @UKLabour should support #ElectoralReform.

RT @eiecampaign
“The government's new laws will conscript workers to work against their will. It's the sort of thing we see from oppressive regimes.”

– Mick Lynch, @RMTunion

Join the campaign to fight back: https://wesayenough.co.uk/petition/

RT @premnsikka
FTSE100 CEO earnings exceed the median worker’s pay after just three days of work

Median FTSE100 CEO pay, £3.41m; 103 times the worker pay of £33,000

CEO got 39% pay rise, workers got a real pay cut.

No Minister calls it inflationary.

It is class war.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/05/ftse-100-bosses-paid-more-in-three-days-than-average-uk-worker-for-whole-year

RT @RoyLilley
Copy this and send it to your MP, show your partner, neighbour, re-Tweet it give it to the shops in the high street to put in the window and display it in GP surgeries and A&E… this is why the NHS is choc-a-bloc

RT @Claudiachan00
Oakshott talks about nurses drinking cups of tea. All I see is them rushing around on 12 hour shifts. And why shouldn't they have cups of tea? It's work, not torture. I work on a computer and have loads of cups of tea. And I've only ever seen oakshott sat on her arse moaning.

RT @Sillyshib
Nothing further to add https://twitter.com/jardinmondial/status/1610904681882210306

RT @premnsikka
Rishi Sunak’s strike law to let bosses sack workers and sue unions.

Workers will be conscripted, forced to provide minimum level of service.

Biggest anti-worker law in UK history.

No equivalent sanctions when companies withdraw capital, disrupt life.
https://archive.ph/2023.01.05-030145/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-sunaks-strike-law-to-let-bosses-sack-workers-and-sue-unions-fjkcr5rnq

RT @jomcinerney
Did I have amazing success in 2022?

No.

But did I get up every morning and go out and do my very, very best to improve myself?

Again No.

RT @BBCNewsnight
‘What would you say to the unions?’ asks @sima_kotecha

‘Get a life... sack the lot’, says David Moore, owner of Michelin Star restaurant Pied à Terre, as 2023 begins with fresh train strikes

http://bbc.in/2Ps915G