The richest 50 families now hold more wealth than the poorest 34 million of us combined, at the same time as the #costofliving crisis affects millions @equalitytrust.bsky.social . #SundayTimesRichList #poverty #inequality

@openbookcollective.bsky.social thoughtful OA book from @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social #openaccess, download press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...

This would be an absolute disgrace. www.ft.com/content/c98a...

AI and the future of #capitalism from a #Marxian and #neoclassical perspective, interesting reflections from @brankomilan.bsky.social Qs about mediation of models in context of rising authoritarianism (heavily regulated lumpen proletariat?) branko2f7.substack.com/p/artificial...

UK subject to comparatively high gilt yields, the role of the Bank of England and what needs to be done, fascinating read @adamtooze.bsky.social #BankofEngland #giltyields #debt adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-... info @niesrorg.bsky.social

A spectre is haunting British politics: the bond markets #bondmarkets www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

UK gilt yields have come under renewed upward pressure, with long-dated yields reaching levels not seen for nearly three decades. Join us tomorrow lunchtime for this timely webinar where the panel will discuss this issue and consider some policy responses Sign up here⬇️ niesr.ac.uk/event/why-ar...

Lived Experience as evidence in anti-poverty policy making, Hayley Bennett, open access at @bupjournals.bsky.social #socialpolicy #poverty bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Currently, the lowest 10% of earners have an effective tax rate of 44%, more than twice as high as those in the top 0.01% James Dyson, 5th on the Sunday Times Rich List, paid just 0.68% of their total wealth in tax. www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

Fascinating report from @autonomy-institute.bsky.social

Interesting article @lrb.co.uk Sidecar, Dylan Riley on Capitalism vs Capitalists newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Andy Burnham has endorsed the Supplementary Vote as his preference for reforming UK elections in our multi-party age after SV’s success in decades of English mayoral elections always created legitimate outcomes. This free chapter explains how it works from p.62. press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...

Good - Sky News pinting out some basic facts about Brexit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WqH...

My friend was a pensions expert for KPMG. He said if you think social care is bad now wait over the next 20-30 years for an avalanche of destitute pensioners all having to live in the private rental market, all with no assets.

three quarters of children living in #poverty live in a household where at least one person is working @ippr.org report shows, shameful www.ippr.org/articles/wor...

Are anticipated public bailouts underwriting the cognitive dissonance of the markets, is this temporarily contributing to buffering significant risks? adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Fascinating series of papers on the changing nature and roles of the state, state technologies and power in a turbulent and changing world www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"government debt interest is now one of the largest upward wealth redistribution mechanisms in the UK economy". eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/fin...

good, article, so good to see exploration of different possible fiscal and institutional futures ...

"we are all and always have been projects of mutual creation" evocative basic idea for critiquing and rethinking the economy

UK income tax personal allowance (PA) frozen at £12.570 by Tory Govt in 2021. Freeze continued by Labour. PA adjusted for inflation would have been £15,550 in 2025/26, £16,048 in 2026/27. Millions of poor forced to pay income tax. Capital gains & dividends taxed at lower marginal rates than wages

Renewing Britain's economy: Tribune Group perspectives, in @renewaljournal.bsky.social journal renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

#Labour growth group, report on policy changes www.labourgrowth.co.uk

12 part Yale course, 'Introduction to political philosophy', www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhm5...

Gustav Klimt was 17 years old in 1879 when he drew (with charcoal and black chalk) this portrait of a young girl. His superb technical ability as a draughtsman is evident even as a teenager in the way he uses shadow to create a three-dimensional picture on paper.

How to live with human fragility, Martha #Nussbaum ... www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/06/m...

A good read, useful 'birds eye view' of main position points re neoliberalism's purported developmental trajectories, sadly main argument obscured by paywall

Shocking that a quarter of our #energybills is taken as profit, #rentier economy - lots more on the many adverse effects of privatisation @cmmonwealth.bsky.social www.common-wealth.org

Interesting study which identified 4 pathways along which #hyperpigmentation and #sunspots need to be tackled and why consumer-test.co.uk/top-5-serums...

Cool project. Solar panels over canals in California "recorded evaporation reductions of 50-70% beneath the solar arrays and an 85% decrease in algae growth" www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/04/s...

Really interesting event at 6.30 p.m. today, featuring @brankomilan.bsky.social and @adamtooze.bsky.social available on YouTube after the event too if you're busy this evening 😊

A delightful review of THE ASSET CLASS made the cover of this month's Literary Review, and starts with the brilliant line: "Some of the most disagreeable people I have encountered in three decades of financial journalism work in private equity" Read it here! literaryreview.co.uk/hush-money

Four-in-ten NEETs are not receiving means-tested benefits. In fact, the share of NEETs claiming means-tested benefits has remained stable in recent years. So, any theory for what is driving up the NEET rate can’t only blame the benefits system. Read the full analysis➡️ buff.ly/gABGpwv

EDPL research - #AIagents = high degree of unreliability in 4 domains: legal, medical, research a&coding. Medical e.g: #GPT-5 wrong 71.8% of the time. #Claude Opus 4.5 wrong 60%. #Gemini 3 Pro. wrong 61.9% #DeepSeek Reasoner wrong 76.8%. @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social?? arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01031

In four right-wing newspapers, more than 70% of opinion articles contained at least one misleading statement.

The British state does not like to be ridiculed or exposed for the absurdism it promotes in its laws and decisions. Banksy showing a British judge striking a protestor with a gavel must have really hurt the judiciary. The truth often hurts.

NLR 158 out now! * Alexander Zevin on Trump's Gulf War * Nancy Fraser on Gaza as world event * Nathan Sperber analyses the death and life of neoliberalism Plus: Richard Overy discusses WW2; Loïc Wacquant on prison abolition; Thomas Meaney on the Cold War and more... newleftreview.org/issues/ii158

'Political capitalism' ends up sounding extremely close to 'rentier capitalism', 'neo-feudalism' and 'asset economy', but with slightly different emphases. But I found this discussion with Dylan Riley very illuminating bungacast.com/2026/04/28/5...

The #Capitalist era: the making and unmaking of the global mind, #Adleman, highlights the brittleness of the #neoliberal world order press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The potential for dynamic pricing being introduced by supermarkets and impacts upon the cost of our weekly shop sounds concerning, via @balancedeconomy.bsky.social #costofliving #digitalisation thecounterbalance.substack.com/p/the-weekly...

'Who Owns Britain', at @cmmonwealth.bsky.social exploring how privatisation has fundamentally changed our lives www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...

interesting reflections around Jager's 'hyperpolitics', politicisation and institutionalisation by @will-davies.bsky.social

interesting substack discussion of 'how the 'virtues' of neoliberalism paved the way to its demise', via @brankomilan.bsky.social branko2f7.substack.com/p/how-the-vi...

What do we really know about inequalities? Far more than we did six years ago, thanks to the Nuffield‑funded @theifs.bsky.social Deaton Review. This major programme set out to deliver deeper, joined‑up answers about what drives inequality and what can be done. 🔗 ifs.org.uk/inequality [1/3]

Long hours at a desk can raise the risk of diabetes, heart disease and poor concentration, even in people who exercise regularly.

#Anthropic report: where AI is/will replace workers in own workforce. older workers, earning more than 47% than others going + entry grades declined by 14%, raises questions: incentives for progression? where will senior practitioners come from in the future? www.anthropic.com/research/lab...

Over the past several months, we've been working in close partnership with Sefton Council to develop a bespoke e-learning Poverty Awareness Training, now live and available to all Sefton Council staff. You can find out more here: resolvepoverty.org/wp-content/u...

Would be good to see discussion of how the broader dynamic of #neoliberal de-democratisation figures in this rise of #zombiepolitics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...