Jake Atkinson
@jakeatkinson.bsky.social
I campaign against inequality, mainly in health & wealth. Love human rights, access to medicines, & fair tax. Hate billionaires.
Campaigns Manager @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social
Fmr Senior Adviser @STOPAIDS, @youth4tpnw SC. Views own. Shares ≠ I agree.
Campaigns Manager @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social
Fmr Senior Adviser @STOPAIDS, @youth4tpnw SC. Views own. Shares ≠ I agree.
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The govt says it’s taxing the super-rich… but it doesn’t seem to know what that means.
Last week the Chancellor was asked about her Budget's impact on the richest 1%, she said they only analyse impact by deciles (10% slices of the pop).
🧵Here's why that's a BIG problem... 1/9
Last week the Chancellor was asked about her Budget's impact on the richest 1%, she said they only analyse impact by deciles (10% slices of the pop).
🧵Here's why that's a BIG problem... 1/9
December 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The govt says it’s taxing the super-rich… but it doesn’t seem to know what that means.
Last week the Chancellor was asked about her Budget's impact on the richest 1%, she said they only analyse impact by deciles (10% slices of the pop).
🧵Here's why that's a BIG problem... 1/9
Last week the Chancellor was asked about her Budget's impact on the richest 1%, she said they only analyse impact by deciles (10% slices of the pop).
🧵Here's why that's a BIG problem... 1/9
One striking piece of this story is the reminder that many new Labour MPs come from the development sector + remained notably silent on the harshest and deadliest of cuts.
Building careers off of issues & then keeping silent as those issues are thrown under the bus.
www.politico.eu/article/labo...
Building careers off of issues & then keeping silent as those issues are thrown under the bus.
www.politico.eu/article/labo...
How Labour slashed overseas aid — and got away with it
The U.K. government this year shocked its progressive base with deep cuts to Britain’s aid system. But there was little political fuss, and some now wonder if Chancellor Rachel Reeves could repeat …
www.politico.eu
December 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
One striking piece of this story is the reminder that many new Labour MPs come from the development sector + remained notably silent on the harshest and deadliest of cuts.
Building careers off of issues & then keeping silent as those issues are thrown under the bus.
www.politico.eu/article/labo...
Building careers off of issues & then keeping silent as those issues are thrown under the bus.
www.politico.eu/article/labo...
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Unlike the debunked “millionaire exodus”, Britain’s young workers really are leaving in droves— 174,000+ since March 2024.
The motor of our economy walking away is a crisis that really should worry us.
🧵So, why are they leaving and how can we stop it? 1/9
The motor of our economy walking away is a crisis that really should worry us.
🧵So, why are they leaving and how can we stop it? 1/9
December 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Unlike the debunked “millionaire exodus”, Britain’s young workers really are leaving in droves— 174,000+ since March 2024.
The motor of our economy walking away is a crisis that really should worry us.
🧵So, why are they leaving and how can we stop it? 1/9
The motor of our economy walking away is a crisis that really should worry us.
🧵So, why are they leaving and how can we stop it? 1/9
#WorldAIDSDay today. It breaks my heart that people die needlessly & over 9 million people living with HIV aren't on treatment: due to criminalising laws, stigma, funding cuts, big pharma greed, & the racist & colonial global development model.
Solidarity with everyone living with or at risk of HIV.
Solidarity with everyone living with or at risk of HIV.
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
#WorldAIDSDay today. It breaks my heart that people die needlessly & over 9 million people living with HIV aren't on treatment: due to criminalising laws, stigma, funding cuts, big pharma greed, & the racist & colonial global development model.
Solidarity with everyone living with or at risk of HIV.
Solidarity with everyone living with or at risk of HIV.
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Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
I can think of fewer campaigns better to support than a patient-led, savvy underdog that has won multiple victories to put people and our NHS before profit.
If you can afford to make a small contribution, please do so!
If you can afford to make a small contribution, please do so!
🚨 Vultures are circling our #NHS.
Private corporations extracting BILLIONS in outsourcing contracts. Big Pharma inflating medicine prices. Big Tech harvesting our health data. Politicians taking donations while we wait years for care.
cause.lundadonate.org/justtreatmen...
Private corporations extracting BILLIONS in outsourcing contracts. Big Pharma inflating medicine prices. Big Tech harvesting our health data. Politicians taking donations while we wait years for care.
cause.lundadonate.org/justtreatmen...
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I can think of fewer campaigns better to support than a patient-led, savvy underdog that has won multiple victories to put people and our NHS before profit.
If you can afford to make a small contribution, please do so!
If you can afford to make a small contribution, please do so!
This is a corker of a book - and dare I say a great Christmas gift for anyone?
Breaks down 65 key issues & concepts of global justice in a brief & really accessible way.
A useful movement resource as well as a tool to engage & radicalise others.
Get yours: www.globaljustice.org.uk/resource/an-...
Breaks down 65 key issues & concepts of global justice in a brief & really accessible way.
A useful movement resource as well as a tool to engage & radicalise others.
Get yours: www.globaljustice.org.uk/resource/an-...
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is a corker of a book - and dare I say a great Christmas gift for anyone?
Breaks down 65 key issues & concepts of global justice in a brief & really accessible way.
A useful movement resource as well as a tool to engage & radicalise others.
Get yours: www.globaljustice.org.uk/resource/an-...
Breaks down 65 key issues & concepts of global justice in a brief & really accessible way.
A useful movement resource as well as a tool to engage & radicalise others.
Get yours: www.globaljustice.org.uk/resource/an-...
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Fundraising summit for Aids, TB and malaria expected to fall billions of pounds short
Global health campaigners fear the shortfall will deflect efforts to prevent increasing infections and weaken momentum in cutting deaths
✍️ @benfarmerdt.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Global health campaigners fear the shortfall will deflect efforts to prevent increasing infections and weaken momentum in cutting deaths
✍️ @benfarmerdt.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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www.telegraph.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Fundraising summit for Aids, TB and malaria expected to fall billions of pounds short
Global health campaigners fear the shortfall will deflect efforts to prevent increasing infections and weaken momentum in cutting deaths
✍️ @benfarmerdt.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Global health campaigners fear the shortfall will deflect efforts to prevent increasing infections and weaken momentum in cutting deaths
✍️ @benfarmerdt.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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👩⚕️👨🚒🤵 Doctors, firefighters, even the super-rich themselves can see it… so why can’t Rachel Reeves?
It’s time to tax the super‑rich & invest in our collective future.
Yesterday, we delivered over 700,000 signatures demanding that the govt delivers #TaxJustice at the budget.
It’s time to tax the super‑rich & invest in our collective future.
Yesterday, we delivered over 700,000 signatures demanding that the govt delivers #TaxJustice at the budget.
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
👩⚕️👨🚒🤵 Doctors, firefighters, even the super-rich themselves can see it… so why can’t Rachel Reeves?
It’s time to tax the super‑rich & invest in our collective future.
Yesterday, we delivered over 700,000 signatures demanding that the govt delivers #TaxJustice at the budget.
It’s time to tax the super‑rich & invest in our collective future.
Yesterday, we delivered over 700,000 signatures demanding that the govt delivers #TaxJustice at the budget.
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“Rachel Reeves can’t afford not to raise taxes […] But who pays is important because millions are already struggling. The govt pledged not to raise taxes on working people and they don’t have to.”
Our very own @jakeatkinson.bsky.social in The @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Our very own @jakeatkinson.bsky.social in The @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Rachel Reeves looks set to raise taxes. What does it mean for you?
Rachel Reeves is likely to raise taxes in her autumn budget, but she has different levers she could pull to do this.
www.bigissue.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“Rachel Reeves can’t afford not to raise taxes […] But who pays is important because millions are already struggling. The govt pledged not to raise taxes on working people and they don’t have to.”
Our very own @jakeatkinson.bsky.social in The @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Our very own @jakeatkinson.bsky.social in The @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
250,000 lives at risk. More transmissions of HIV, TB & malaria.
Once the world came together to end these three preventable killer diseases, in the knowledge that eradicating them would create a safer & more prosperous world for all. Now, they turn away.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Once the world came together to end these three preventable killer diseases, in the knowledge that eradicating them would create a safer & more prosperous world for all. Now, they turn away.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
UK risks many children’s lives with £150m cut to fund fighting deadly diseases
The cut from £1bn to £850m pledged to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria – risking 250,000 lives – was revealed by The Independent last week
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
250,000 lives at risk. More transmissions of HIV, TB & malaria.
Once the world came together to end these three preventable killer diseases, in the knowledge that eradicating them would create a safer & more prosperous world for all. Now, they turn away.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Once the world came together to end these three preventable killer diseases, in the knowledge that eradicating them would create a safer & more prosperous world for all. Now, they turn away.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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What do we mean when we say "tax the super rich"? Well, we’re not talking about the guy down the road that does his weekly shop in Waitrose.
Unless, he also have over £10 million in assets. But he probably doesn't because that’s just 0.04% of the UK population.
Unless, he also have over £10 million in assets. But he probably doesn't because that’s just 0.04% of the UK population.
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
What do we mean when we say "tax the super rich"? Well, we’re not talking about the guy down the road that does his weekly shop in Waitrose.
Unless, he also have over £10 million in assets. But he probably doesn't because that’s just 0.04% of the UK population.
Unless, he also have over £10 million in assets. But he probably doesn't because that’s just 0.04% of the UK population.
Corrupt sex pest Cuomo ran his campaign with lies and Islamophobia. Good riddance.
We must not forget how the super rich will throw tens of millions against any socialist candidates to deny ordinary people a fairer world & a better life.
Their greed & extreme wealth is incompatible with democracy.
We must not forget how the super rich will throw tens of millions against any socialist candidates to deny ordinary people a fairer world & a better life.
Their greed & extreme wealth is incompatible with democracy.
Cuomo: Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani
Crowd: Boooooo
Cuomo: No, no… That is not right and that is not us. Tonight was their night.
Crowd: Boooooo
Cuomo: No, no… That is not right and that is not us. Tonight was their night.
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Corrupt sex pest Cuomo ran his campaign with lies and Islamophobia. Good riddance.
We must not forget how the super rich will throw tens of millions against any socialist candidates to deny ordinary people a fairer world & a better life.
Their greed & extreme wealth is incompatible with democracy.
We must not forget how the super rich will throw tens of millions against any socialist candidates to deny ordinary people a fairer world & a better life.
Their greed & extreme wealth is incompatible with democracy.
I am crying happy tears!!
Zohran Mamdani will be an incredible mayor.
Elections, and indeed our world, are not for sale. For the billionaire class: we’re coming for you.
Zohran Mamdani will be an incredible mayor.
Elections, and indeed our world, are not for sale. For the billionaire class: we’re coming for you.
November 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I am crying happy tears!!
Zohran Mamdani will be an incredible mayor.
Elections, and indeed our world, are not for sale. For the billionaire class: we’re coming for you.
Zohran Mamdani will be an incredible mayor.
Elections, and indeed our world, are not for sale. For the billionaire class: we’re coming for you.
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As rumours swirl that Reeves is considering raising income tax, our very own @jakeatkinson.bsky.social was on LBC News today, with an important reminder:
The chancellor can keep her pledges, and protect public services, if she chooses to tax wealth.
The chancellor can keep her pledges, and protect public services, if she chooses to tax wealth.
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
As rumours swirl that Reeves is considering raising income tax, our very own @jakeatkinson.bsky.social was on LBC News today, with an important reminder:
The chancellor can keep her pledges, and protect public services, if she chooses to tax wealth.
The chancellor can keep her pledges, and protect public services, if she chooses to tax wealth.
Looking forward to joining health workers & campaigners for a panel discussion tomorrow following a brilliant lecture from @carlosu02.bsky.social.
Please do come along tomorrow if you can make it!
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
Please do come along tomorrow if you can make it!
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World - Medact Calendar
We welcome Medact members, health workers and young campaigners as we reflect on the campaigning for a nuclear weapons free world.
www.medact.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Looking forward to joining health workers & campaigners for a panel discussion tomorrow following a brilliant lecture from @carlosu02.bsky.social.
Please do come along tomorrow if you can make it!
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
Please do come along tomorrow if you can make it!
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
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Deeply distressed by these reports of patients & their companions killed at Saudi Hospital.
We call for the URGENT protection of all civilians. We're working in Tawila, caring for people who've fled El Fasher. We stand in solidarity w/ Sudanese health workers. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
We call for the URGENT protection of all civilians. We're working in Tawila, caring for people who've fled El Fasher. We stand in solidarity w/ Sudanese health workers. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds at a hospital in Darfur, residents and aid workers say
Sudan’s paramilitary forces have reportedly killed hundreds at a hospital, including patients, after seizing the provincial capital of North Darfur
www.washingtonpost.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Deeply distressed by these reports of patients & their companions killed at Saudi Hospital.
We call for the URGENT protection of all civilians. We're working in Tawila, caring for people who've fled El Fasher. We stand in solidarity w/ Sudanese health workers. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
We call for the URGENT protection of all civilians. We're working in Tawila, caring for people who've fled El Fasher. We stand in solidarity w/ Sudanese health workers. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Private rent in UK now swallows 44% of the average wage.
Monthly cost jumps to record £1,385 outside London, £2,736 in the capital.
Lack of social and affordable housing, no rent controls, as govts appease corporations and the rich.
Profiteering creating poverty/despair, stifling economic growth.
Monthly cost jumps to record £1,385 outside London, £2,736 in the capital.
Lack of social and affordable housing, no rent controls, as govts appease corporations and the rich.
Profiteering creating poverty/despair, stifling economic growth.
Private rent in Britain now swallows 44% of the average wage
Monthly cost jumps to record £1,385 outside London, and £2,736 in the capital, with hotspots showing hefty rises
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Private rent in UK now swallows 44% of the average wage.
Monthly cost jumps to record £1,385 outside London, £2,736 in the capital.
Lack of social and affordable housing, no rent controls, as govts appease corporations and the rich.
Profiteering creating poverty/despair, stifling economic growth.
Monthly cost jumps to record £1,385 outside London, £2,736 in the capital.
Lack of social and affordable housing, no rent controls, as govts appease corporations and the rich.
Profiteering creating poverty/despair, stifling economic growth.
The UK is a rich country, so why are our schools falling apart, our hospitals understaffed and millions struggling to get by?
The 0.1% and corporations are robbing us blind. Let’s demand better:
taxjustice.eaction.org.uk/budgetforthe...
The 0.1% and corporations are robbing us blind. Let’s demand better:
taxjustice.eaction.org.uk/budgetforthe...
Demand a budget for the 99.9%
taxjustice.eaction.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The UK is a rich country, so why are our schools falling apart, our hospitals understaffed and millions struggling to get by?
The 0.1% and corporations are robbing us blind. Let’s demand better:
taxjustice.eaction.org.uk/budgetforthe...
The 0.1% and corporations are robbing us blind. Let’s demand better:
taxjustice.eaction.org.uk/budgetforthe...
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At the #NoKings / #NoKings demonstration in London.
Trump and the far-right are destroying democracy, and both in the US and UK we must organise locally in our communities to provide mutual aid and stop deportations and racist violence.
@indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @indivisible.org
Trump and the far-right are destroying democracy, and both in the US and UK we must organise locally in our communities to provide mutual aid and stop deportations and racist violence.
@indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @indivisible.org
October 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
At the #NoKings / #NoKings demonstration in London.
Trump and the far-right are destroying democracy, and both in the US and UK we must organise locally in our communities to provide mutual aid and stop deportations and racist violence.
@indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @indivisible.org
Trump and the far-right are destroying democracy, and both in the US and UK we must organise locally in our communities to provide mutual aid and stop deportations and racist violence.
@indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @indivisible.org
More from us on the latest report of tax cuts for Big Pharma whilst they overcharge the NHS for medicines.
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🚨BREAKING🚨
💊 GSK lobbied for a juicy tax break, pocketed £3.4bn, then ghosted on UK investments.
It's time to end the "Patent Box" tax break scheme, gifting billions to Big Pharma.
Full report from @taxwatch.bsky.social: www.taxwatchuk.org/taxwatch-inv...
💊 GSK lobbied for a juicy tax break, pocketed £3.4bn, then ghosted on UK investments.
It's time to end the "Patent Box" tax break scheme, gifting billions to Big Pharma.
Full report from @taxwatch.bsky.social: www.taxwatchuk.org/taxwatch-inv...
October 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
More from us on the latest report of tax cuts for Big Pharma whilst they overcharge the NHS for medicines.
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