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📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.14)
❌ Higher #inequality impedes social mobility - rungs on the ladder too far apart.
✅ To live The American Dream … just move to Finland 🙂
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
❌ Higher #inequality impedes social mobility - rungs on the ladder too far apart.
✅ To live The American Dream … just move to Finland 🙂
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.14 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
🙄 Yet more mindless AI fuckwittery... 🤡 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Accenture dubs 800,000 staff ‘reinventors’ amid shift to AI
Consultancy’s move to embrace artificial intelligence follows Disney’s use of the term ‘imagineers’
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
🙄 Yet more mindless AI fuckwittery... 🤡 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
🚨 Where we're at... 🔽🤬 www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
‘Posh-poor divide’: the rise in areas of England where wealth and deprivation appear side by side
Data shows increase in neighbourhoods where few metres of asphalt, hedgerow, or wall can separate deep inequality
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🚨 Where we're at... 🔽🤬 www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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Not the current bunch, no, but the politicians (in theory) serve us and we can remove them. What power do we have over an independent Bank of England or the OBR? There seems to be a democratic deficit here.
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Not the current bunch, no, but the politicians (in theory) serve us and we can remove them. What power do we have over an independent Bank of England or the OBR? There seems to be a democratic deficit here.
🤔 Do we really need an independent Bank of England? And do we really need the OBR? What purpose do these two things serve? Is it just to keep the "markets" (i.e. mostly rich people) happy, or is it more complex than that?
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🤔 Do we really need an independent Bank of England? And do we really need the OBR? What purpose do these two things serve? Is it just to keep the "markets" (i.e. mostly rich people) happy, or is it more complex than that?
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Budget Response 2025: The High Pay Centre acknowledges a number of the positive proposals included, though the freezing of income tax thresholds in particular will hit working people hard.
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Budget Response 2025: The High Pay Centre acknowledges a number of the positive proposals included, though the freezing of income tax thresholds in particular will hit working people hard.
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Resourcing HMRC is incredibly good value: every £1 for tax compliance brings in £23. Private-sector orgs dream about ROI like that.
But some everyday/automated tax enforcement is error-prone, or hits the poorest hardest.
We need to measure tax **enforcement** incidence.
But some everyday/automated tax enforcement is error-prone, or hits the poorest hardest.
We need to measure tax **enforcement** incidence.
We need HMRC to work better for ordinary taxpayers: both fairness and our public finances depend on it. A guest post by Mike Lewis, Director of @taxwatch.bsky.social www.faircomment.co.uk/p/we-need-hm...
We need HMRC to work better for ordinary taxpayers
Both fairness and our public finances depend on it (a guest post by Mike Lewis at TaxWatch)
www.faircomment.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Resourcing HMRC is incredibly good value: every £1 for tax compliance brings in £23. Private-sector orgs dream about ROI like that.
But some everyday/automated tax enforcement is error-prone, or hits the poorest hardest.
We need to measure tax **enforcement** incidence.
But some everyday/automated tax enforcement is error-prone, or hits the poorest hardest.
We need to measure tax **enforcement** incidence.
🚨 VERY SENSIBLE AND WELCOME: Your Party will endorse leftwing “community independents” in English local elections next year, and also 🔽👍✊
December 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🚨 VERY SENSIBLE AND WELCOME: Your Party will endorse leftwing “community independents” in English local elections next year, and also 🔽👍✊
📢 AND SO SAY ALL OF US 🔽🔽🔽
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... was created in 1988 to give global authority to that knowledge. It reshaped climate politics. Prof Stiglitz argues that the time has come for an International Panel on Inequality." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... was created in 1988 to give global authority to that knowledge. It reshaped climate politics. Prof Stiglitz argues that the time has come for an International Panel on Inequality." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the inequality emergency: why a Nobel prize winner’s warning must be heeded | Editorial
Editorial: Rising economic division is destabilising nations and eroding accountability. Joseph Stiglitz’s G20 blueprint offers a way toward global economic renewal
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
📢 AND SO SAY ALL OF US 🔽🔽🔽
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... was created in 1988 to give global authority to that knowledge. It reshaped climate politics. Prof Stiglitz argues that the time has come for an International Panel on Inequality." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... was created in 1988 to give global authority to that knowledge. It reshaped climate politics. Prof Stiglitz argues that the time has come for an International Panel on Inequality." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🚨 THIS 🔽🔽🔽
"The most obvious of truths – that every child matters, that some things go beyond partisan point-scoring – are, to some, not obvious at all ... The two-child limit is at last abolished but the sentiment that created it is alive and well." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"The most obvious of truths – that every child matters, that some things go beyond partisan point-scoring – are, to some, not obvious at all ... The two-child limit is at last abolished but the sentiment that created it is alive and well." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The two-child limit is abolished at last. Watch out for the narrative that will follow | Frances Ryan
The right is already in a frenzy about the migrant groups it thinks will benefit – and the budget contained other trade-offs, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🚨 THIS 🔽🔽🔽
"The most obvious of truths – that every child matters, that some things go beyond partisan point-scoring – are, to some, not obvious at all ... The two-child limit is at last abolished but the sentiment that created it is alive and well." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"The most obvious of truths – that every child matters, that some things go beyond partisan point-scoring – are, to some, not obvious at all ... The two-child limit is at last abolished but the sentiment that created it is alive and well." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.14 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.14)
❌ Higher #inequality impedes social mobility - rungs on the ladder too far apart.
✅ To live The American Dream … just move to Finland 🙂
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
❌ Higher #inequality impedes social mobility - rungs on the ladder too far apart.
✅ To live The American Dream … just move to Finland 🙂
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.14 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
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We're not uncritical of Corbyn but he seems, this past 10 years, to have helped (with others) unleash a significant amount of left-wing energy in the UK and, for that, we're grateful. Glad he won't be leader of Your Party. Hope they can make the collective leadership thing work. It will be hard.
November 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We're not uncritical of Corbyn but he seems, this past 10 years, to have helped (with others) unleash a significant amount of left-wing energy in the UK and, for that, we're grateful. Glad he won't be leader of Your Party. Hope they can make the collective leadership thing work. It will be hard.
🚨 Amen to this 🔽🙏
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🚨 Amen to this 🔽🙏
🚨🚨🚨 Someone's obviously over-ordered on the merch and leaflets, so they're sticking with it... 🙂👍✊
November 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🚨🚨🚨 Someone's obviously over-ordered on the merch and leaflets, so they're sticking with it... 🙂👍✊
📢 Those who claim to be the "squeezed middle" are often paid way above the average UK wage of around £38k p/a. Those who feel they are in the "squeezed middle" should make common cause with those on much lower incomes, then we might see some real change... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘squeezed middle’ is back – and this time it could be Labour’s undoing | John Harris
Last week’s budget left middle-income families anxious and angry. The party is turning its back on voters it can little afford to lose, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
📢 Those who claim to be the "squeezed middle" are often paid way above the average UK wage of around £38k p/a. Those who feel they are in the "squeezed middle" should make common cause with those on much lower incomes, then we might see some real change... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🚨 The ongoing enshittification of the world by AI continues apace. Example No.27,786 🔽. If only there was a solution 🤔
#IgnoreAI #DeletCoPilot #DoSomethingUsefulInstead www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
#IgnoreAI #DeletCoPilot #DoSomethingUsefulInstead www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🚨 The ongoing enshittification of the world by AI continues apace. Example No.27,786 🔽. If only there was a solution 🤔
#IgnoreAI #DeletCoPilot #DoSomethingUsefulInstead www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
#IgnoreAI #DeletCoPilot #DoSomethingUsefulInstead www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
📢 🙂👍 🔽 It's nice to be offered something different...
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
📢 🙂👍 🔽 It's nice to be offered something different...
📢 Suspect the only way to revitalise coastal and other "left behind" places is for massive state intervention: move jobs there, cap rents, and replace landlordism and holiday lets with affordable homes for locals. All else is really just tinkering at the edges... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We need to speak collectively’: can parliament solve the problem of ‘deprivation bingo’ in the UK’s seaside towns?
Labour knows it needs to win over the ‘sea wall’ cohort of coastal voters in the next election. But as anger over inequality grows, time is running out
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
📢 Suspect the only way to revitalise coastal and other "left behind" places is for massive state intervention: move jobs there, cap rents, and replace landlordism and holiday lets with affordable homes for locals. All else is really just tinkering at the edges... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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More equal societies are fairer, greener and healthier for everyone .
Sadly, the UK is run by millionaires for billionaires and they just don't care.
#inequalityUK
Sadly, the UK is run by millionaires for billionaires and they just don't care.
#inequalityUK
📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.13 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.13)
❌ ⬆️ #inequality > ⬆️stigma > ⬇️interaction between those with and those without a mental illness.
✅ ⬆️ #equal EU countries score better.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
❌ ⬆️ #inequality > ⬆️stigma > ⬇️interaction between those with and those without a mental illness.
✅ ⬆️ #equal EU countries score better.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
November 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
More equal societies are fairer, greener and healthier for everyone .
Sadly, the UK is run by millionaires for billionaires and they just don't care.
#inequalityUK
Sadly, the UK is run by millionaires for billionaires and they just don't care.
#inequalityUK
🤔 If Your Party really is member-led, they will democratically decide the issues currently causing problems, including the leadership structure and the party's relation to other parties like the SWP. Maybe the media should calm down and show a little patience...? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Your Party’s first conference shows little sign of achieving fresh start
Differences between Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn and over admitting Socialist Workers members mean rows look likely to continue
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🤔 If Your Party really is member-led, they will democratically decide the issues currently causing problems, including the leadership structure and the party's relation to other parties like the SWP. Maybe the media should calm down and show a little patience...? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.13 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.13)
❌ ⬆️ #inequality > ⬆️stigma > ⬇️interaction between those with and those without a mental illness.
✅ ⬆️ #equal EU countries score better.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
❌ ⬆️ #inequality > ⬆️stigma > ⬇️interaction between those with and those without a mental illness.
✅ ⬆️ #equal EU countries score better.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
November 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.13 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
🤔 In the, admittedly small, cohort of younger males we have encountered in recent years, it really is no mystery that younger women aren't keen to marry them, or even date them... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What could be putting young women off marriage? It really isn’t that much of a mystery | Naoise Dolan
Survey data suggests more and more girls can’t imagine getting married, while their male counterparts are keener. That disparity holds a clue, says writer Naoise Dolan
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🤔 In the, admittedly small, cohort of younger males we have encountered in recent years, it really is no mystery that younger women aren't keen to marry them, or even date them... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nigel Farage isn’t shy in his admiration of Enoch Powell. ❌
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Nigel Farage isn’t shy in his admiration of Enoch Powell. ❌
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UN compares UK’s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia
UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
UN compares UK’s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia
UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights
www.independent.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
UN compares UK’s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia
UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
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What is the Bond Market? What are 'gilts'? Is my 'yield' good enough? And how do progressives interact with it all to actually build the Good Society?
The answers of an alternative economic approach are set out below👇
www.compassonline.org.uk/bond-markets...
The answers of an alternative economic approach are set out below👇
www.compassonline.org.uk/bond-markets...
Bond Markets 101: What Should Progressives Do About the Economy?
The Bond Markets can be a confusing thing. Here we explain what they are and how Britain rebuilds alongside them.
www.compassonline.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
What is the Bond Market? What are 'gilts'? Is my 'yield' good enough? And how do progressives interact with it all to actually build the Good Society?
The answers of an alternative economic approach are set out below👇
www.compassonline.org.uk/bond-markets...
The answers of an alternative economic approach are set out below👇
www.compassonline.org.uk/bond-markets...
🤔 Should it matter if people hold memberships in more than one political party? Not sure it's the worst sin in the world...
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🤔 Should it matter if people hold memberships in more than one political party? Not sure it's the worst sin in the world...