Panelists:  

Vonni Hardman 

Vonni Hardman (she/her) STT member, NEU Durham LGBT+ Officer and NEU Northern Region LGBT+ Organising Forum member or any combination thereof!  

Laura Miles  

Laura is a former LGBT rep on the UCU national executive committee. Now retired from teaching she continues to be an activist and writer on socialist and trans issues. Her book Transgender Resistance: Socialism and the Fight for Trans Liberation was published in 2020.  

Kacey de Groot  

Kacey is the current executive seat holder for LGBT+ members of the NEU as well co-sec (women) of the union's Trans and Non-Binary Educator's Network. She is a secondary school Drama teacher in Coventry and a co-parent to three awesome children in her spare time.  

Keyne Rowe  

Keyne is a science communicator, a climate activist, and advocate for gender freedom working with TransActualUK to combat the anti-trans moral panic. They are a policy wonk, methodology queen, and a queer mess. Find them on twitter @keyne_unable, or better yet avoid social media as much as you possibly can.

Host, Paul Daly (NASUWT and Socialist Think Tank) and panellists supply teacher Rachel Lozinski (NASUWT) and nurse Angela Hankin (UNISON) introduce some guests who want to thank key workers for their work through the pandemic as well as demand a much needed and well earned pay rise. Panellists describe what it was like to live through the pandemic as eye  witnesses to very different experiences of PPE shortages, chaotic governance and tragedy.

Contibutors

Dr Patrick Roach (NASUWT General Secretary)

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP

Christine Fletcher (Durham County Council)

Samantha Townsend (Durham County Council)

Joe Solo (We Shall Overcome)

Ian Lavery MP

Rehana Azam (GMB)

Nadia Jama (Labour NEC)

Alan Mardghum (Durham Miners' Association)

Sean Hoyle (RMT)

Laura Smith (No Holding Back)

Michelle Codrington-Rogers (NASUWT)

Paula Peters from Disabled People Against the Cuts joins us along with Stuart Sutherland to discuss the cruelty of the Personal Independence Payments assessments and more.

Labour says calling for free social care would ‘just give Tories a stick to beat us with’. Why aren’t we responding with greater alarm to the growing number of Delta variant infections?  Should our schoolchildren be made to sing: ‘Strong Britain, Great Nation’? Matt "Handsy" Hancock may get a mention too!

We discuss the G7 Summit, booing footballers who take the knee, whether the UK is sleepwalking into authoritarian rule and the fact that the North East could LOSE two MPs in proposed shake up of UK parliament.

Laura and Paul are joined by In Evil Hour's Alice as well as recurring guest Tina McKay to discuss how to express our socialism through Music, Art and comedy. We discuss whether there are any funny right wingers and have a pop at centrist liberals. Not to be missed!

We talk socialism, music, arts and media!

Jon tells us about his own socialist journey and calls for a wealth tax.