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Polly Smythe

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Labour reporter @novaramedia / stories and tips to [email protected]

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"I’d rather keep my Reform membership than my trade union membership" With Nigel Farage parking his tanks firmly on the labour movement's lawn, I explored exactly how his party has been able to make inroads with union members novaramedia.com/2025/05/21/tra…

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🧑‍🎓The University and College Union has voted to back a strike ballot against Labour🧑‍🎓 The motion was drafted by a network of grassroots members and passed yesterday at the union's conference – I wrote about what it means for the sector novaramedia.com/2025/05/26/uni…

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At a press conference today, Nigel Farage challenged Starmer to a debate in “a working man’s club somewhere in the red wall” and called Reform the “party of workers” I wrote about the party's ‘pro-worker’ pivot, and what unions should do about it, here⬇️ novaramedia.com/2025/05/21/tra…

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Our members at Newcastle University will receive their voting papers later this week, as the Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social branch re-ballot for industrial action to avoid compulsory redundancies and the impact of £millions of cuts

Our members at Newcastle University will receive their voting papers later this week, as the <a href="/NewcastleUniUCU/">Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social</a> branch re-ballot for industrial action to avoid compulsory redundancies and the impact of £millions of cuts
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“I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student. That sure feels like bullshit” - interesting on the impact of AI + ChatGPT on teaching 404media.co/teachers-are-n…

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Labour’s plans to kickstart productivity are based on massively inflated numbers from a US private equity giant. Why is the prime minister doing Blackstone's PR? @PollySmythe reports. novaramedia.com/2025/06/04/kei…

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🚨Reform UK have declared war on public sector pensions, including firefighters and council staff. Multi-millionaire Richard Tice wants to slash pensions, cut pay to cover existing schemes and put new recruits on worse terms. Tice plans pension poverty for hard working public