This chart shows how rare it is for floor-crossers to survive the next election
The path across the aisle is often a precarious one for members of Parliament and few who switch parties make it through the next election.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/charting-floor-crossers-historic-9.7124302?cmp=rss

"Four legs good, two legs bad."

On July 30, 2025, I sent a letter to the Board of Trustees of John Cabot University in Rome, concerning lecturers who, like the lower animals of a certain well-known farm, are kept on #precarious teaching-only contracts and yet pressured to produce unpaid #research for the greater good of #accreditation.

To this day, the letter remains officially unacknowledged and is now in the public domain: https://tinyurl.com/ruat-caelum

#johncabotuniversity
#jcurome

The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialisation of Precarity is available today from Polity Press. In this blog piece for Polity, the author, Interregnum member Panos Theodoropoulos writes about the book's relevance in the current rapidly changing socioeconomic environment.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/from-the-ground-up-the-socialisation-of-precarity-and-the-future-of-social-struggles/

#workers #migrant #migrantworkers #precarious #union #labour #labourday #mayday

From the ground up: The socialisation of precarity and the future of social struggles

The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity is available today from Polity Press. In this blog piece for Polity, the author, Interregnum member Panos Theodoropoulos writes about the book's relevance in the current rapidly changing socioeconomic environment.

Interregnum

Eww 😟 We have 6" of snow on the ground, many streets still not cleared, and it's gonna rain for the next few days. #Toronto

Time to dig out my crampons. #precarious #dangerous #pedestrianLife

Perhaps later modules of the #COVID-19 #Inquiry report will ask to what extent #SocialDarwinist and #eugenicist politicians knowingly or intentionally crafted policy that widened inequality. Political leaders did not care about #disabled, #older, #deprived and financially #precarious people. They possibly committed #democide, accelerating deaths of people with high social welfare costs (and inadvertently causing even greater levels of long-term illness & unemployment).

https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/18095012/UK-Covid-19-Inquiry-Module-1-Full-Report.pdf

@petergleick I endorse this wholeheartedly. Always happy to share my work with others where I can. It’s especially important for the very many scholars in #precarious employment or independent researchers. I put up anything I legally can on Academia for exactly that reason.