🟨 Print Edition — Farage’s Staggering Side Hustles Nigel Farage has spent more than 1,113 hours – or 140 working days – on his various other jobs since being elected to Parliament in July 2024. https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/84/farages-staggering-side-hustles

You may recall the serious allegations by Reform about voting offences at the Gorton and Denton by-election. This detailed thread sets out what happened next. All too late, and this won’t get the same circulation as the original allegations.

War is always a disaster for ordinary people. But once again it will be a bonanza for arms manufacturers, oil & gas giants & their financial backers. The govt must work for peace abroad & tax excess profits to protect people at home. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Proud that Care Full is a co-signatory on this important letter.

hey if "the economy" is completely decoupled from the welfare of the people, WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF THE ECONOMY

Lovely sensible M&S being very clear and sensible.

Good dogs! 🐾

Can’t help feeling it’s the word ‘patriot’ that should be in inverted commas here, not ‘drunk’, Manchester Evening News. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

We’re done watching the super‑rich hoard wealth while the rest of us struggle & we won’t fall for scapegoating & division. ✍️ Sign the petition: www.taxjustice.uk/HopeAgain A message from our ED Faiza Shaheen, Daniel Kebede (@neunion.bsky.social) & Zak Coleman (@gndrising.bsky.social).

UK authors - I urge you to read this article about a school in Manchester who removed hundreds of our books from their library they deemed ‘inappropriate’ and share. This is appalling censorship - and it’s coming from the school’s head and SLT themselves. @indexoncensorship.org

We got a DM the other day with a fun request from a local family: Could we find this nice BART train operator who always waved and beeped at this special little rider? And if we found him, could we deliver him a thank you card!?  So we got to work …

We've got a new campaign out today ahead of the local elections: act.debtjustice.org.uk/contact-your...

Denmark are bringing back their #WealthTax - Do you think the UK should follow suit?? 👉 bit.ly/4rSxXn2

🤑 Bogus self-employment costs the UK about £8.5bn every year, I told the BBC. ✍️ This includes Uber, Deliveroo, Oxbridge colleges, construction firms + hair salons writing sham self-employment contracts for their staff. ⬇️ Listen to this excellent BBC Radio 4 show. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is a great write up of an underreported story. (a) it's crazy that a minister responded "that's life" to a council in financial straits; (b) it's crazier still that £3m of extra funding will apparently fund so little care because the system is entirely run in private interests.

Steve Reed, HCLG Minister allegedly said, “That’s life” in response to a discussion about Hartlepool’s request for additional funding to cover their children’s social care costs. Read our latest blog by @ruthhannan.bsky.social on the big problem in care carefulleconomy.co.uk/2026/03/04/t...

This is a great idea, because until now Ai uptake has been limited only to the most discerning and well-informed.

Those below the poverty line are, increasingly, well below it New @statspeter.bsky.social @katieschmuecker.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social study www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Let’s shut this whole fucking country down. Stop the ICE murders. Boycott USA is you are abroad. We don’t need a World Cup or a rock band’s tour, we need justice and serious fucking help.

I know I bang this drum a lot, but the Covid Public Inquiry largely passed by with barely a ripple. We seem to be memory-holing the whole thing and it's warping diagnosis and debates.

Tinkering around the edges isn't going to fix the injustices at the heart of our tax system. Our Director, Faiza Shaheen, giving the Government a reality check on BBC Politics Live this week.

Long-term claimants of employment and support allowance could be moved over to a new, time-limited disability benefit – equating to cuts.

Looks like Sheffield Uni have picked the absolutely perfect Chancellor if this is the way they treat staff.

3K billionaires control $18.3 trillion, and this concentration of wealth is reshaping democracy itself. Billionaire money changes who gets heard, who decides, and who gets left behind. Read the evidence: www.oxfam.org/en/resisting... #RuleOfTheRich #FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich

To relaunch our blog we're sharing our thoughts on the New Zealand court ruling on family carers employment status and rights. carefulleconomy.co.uk/perspectives/

This is a bad headline. But I guess, ‘add 0.1% to total employment costs’ is less exciting. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Thanks to @highpaycentre.bsky.social for showing how deep inequality runs. Is a CEO worth 1500 of the rest of us? We've (naturally) run the numbers for unpaid carers too; Melrose's CEO package is over 13,600x what carers live on. Our priorities are upside down. Let’s change them.

Hopefully this will soon become #ReclaimTheEconomyMONTH and then Year and then #ReclaimTheEconomyFOREVER - how about it @earth4all.life?

I keep thinking about all the legitimate orga & people still posting on X whilst it produces CSA images. Why not commit fully and start popping your statements on PornHub.

HPC data shows the FTSE 100 CEO just over two days to earn the median UK worker’s full time annual salary. Average CEO pay is £4.4m — 113× the median worker’s salary of £39,039. With long-term wage stagnation, how can this possibly be justified? highpaycentre.org/fat-cat-day-...

📣 New York setting the tone for 2026, on day one. #TaxTheRich. Bernie Sanders electrified the crowds at Zohran Mamdani's inauguration with a clear message: invest in our communities by making the super rich and corporations pay their fair share. We're in.

A wonderful piece on grassroots, local focused women-led solidarity action in Liverpool. Very inspiring. Worth a read @hannahwebster.bsky.social especially the march with the bin workers.

The David & Goliath award is all about the little guys. It celebrates individuals or small campaign groups that take on much bigger organisations and challenge vested power. Nominate your favourite 2025 underdog campaign at https://smk.org.uk/what-we-do/connect/awards/

We’re preparing for not one, but TWO major 4-day week trials this year. If you work for a: - School 📚 or - Council 🏫 And you’re interested in taking part, fill out a form via the link below to get the conversation started.

Much of the Act's significance will now depend on secondary legislation, enforcement, and political will. Without strong institutions and resources, legal rights risk remaining paper protections.

However, the Act also falls short of the full “New Deal for Working People” originally promised by Labour. Proposals like a single ‘worker’ status and a statutory right to switch off were dropped 👇

After an uncertain 2025, the Employment Rights Bill has become law. @liammullally.bsky.social takes a closer look at what’s actually in the legislation, and what it means for workers, unions and employers 👇 buff.ly/ygH3gMn

Some good work news against the backdrop of a grim start to 2026: new article in Sociological Research Online by myself and Liam Foster on independent union organising of paid care workers @centreforcare.bsky.social @sagepub.com @socresonline.bsky.social

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For me, this interview sums up what's wrong with the modern Labour Party. Too quick to link extremist far right rhetoric with popular left wing positions. Too quick to say what they're against & not what they're for. To dismiss wealth tax cos it won't solve ALL the problems is foolish.

Again, we learn that most people can make sensible decisions regardless of their level of income or wealth. Trouble is, many politicians base their careers on the myth of the irresponsible poor

Four day week has real potential to shape a new improved way of working for us all. Especially those with a relationship to care. Deeply disappointing & maddening from the Gvnt. @autonomy-institute.bsky.social @4dayweek.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The latest in the Carers Allowance Overpayment Review and DWP's 'misleading' response from @joshhalliday.bsky.social Quotes from Professor Sue Yeadle and We Care

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Labour polling at 10% in Wales would have been incomprehensible at one point. Brave new world. But this projection shows that Welsh voters are still overwhelmingly progressive. Parties should do everything in their power to ensure a progressive majority in May.

Hello fellow Social Workers and Happy Jane Addams Day! As you know, Jane Addams was a social worker, organizer, and peace activist who co-founded Hull House in Chicago. She's also the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. #JaneAddamsDay #OGSocialWorker

💥 "Billionaires’ wealth has more than doubled since 2010. How many of our constituents can say that their wages have doubled, their standard of living has doubled, that their wealth has doubled in that time?" @richardburgon.bsky.social asking the real questions in the Budget debate.

This looks like the opening scene of a football themed zombie apocalypse movie.

17 MILLION PEOPLE would have access to clean drinking water if debt repayments were slashed...Imagine if all debts were CANCELLED We campaign to win debt justice for millions of people around the world. Support us today and get your donation matched! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Reporting on the £28bn investment on energy infrastructure is making my blood boil. 2 days after our fuel poverty report. Green energy is seen as a cost but never any scrutiny of the £125billion energy company profits. carefulleconomy.co.uk/publications/

What does the gig economy reveal to us about the wider systems that connect us all? And what do we do about it? In our latest episode of Words of Affirmation - out now - our brilliant guest Joe Durbidge from @iwgbunion.bsky.social joins us fo discuss. Listen at linktr.ee/carefulleconomy