If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...

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Read this!!!!

Scary.

The student-led organization is challenging the way economics is taught at universities around the world, with a goal to make economics education “plural, critical, decolonised and historically grounded.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Excellent independent investigative journalism. Covers issues you don't read about in much of the mainstream media nowadays.

🚨BREAKING -- Terrorism ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful by High Court by John McEvoy & Dania Akkad www.declassifieduk.org/terrorism-ba...

Ratcliffe is a creation of Britain's recent history. Refineries and chemical works he owns used to be run by firms that were majority owned by government. Unions have been disempowered and work has been made precarious across the economy. The Ratcliffes of this world have been rewarded.

Jim Ratcliffe is best known as the unpopular Manchester United owner and today he has been in the news for saying that 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants'. We need to understand Ratcliffe's as an energy billionaire who made his power and money by closing workplaces and opposing unions 🧵

'who now speaks for labour?'

Not a good look for a party leader reportedly "worried" about his Russia Problem Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...

Maybe revisit his original ten leadership pledges, which he reneged on. i.e. a U- turn on a U-turn. 🫣

Scrapping REF should be “serious’ option”, says Manchester VC. Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

In the US, union pension funds collectively manage roughly $8 trillion in worker savings. Sweden’s Meidner Plan suggests how labor can wield that economic power effectively: by using pension funds to establish worker ownership over private companies.

🇪🇸 The Spanish Constitution promises #democracy at #work. For the past year, @benbraun.bsky.social has been part of the expert group of 13 convened by @yolandadiaz.bsky.social ky.social and led by @isabelleferreras.bsky.social studying how to deliver that promise. 👉 www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

Time for my semi-regular repost of a favourite bit from Wolfgang Streeck. Listening to Labour insiders telling us to be wary of the bond market, and reading what Mandelson was saying/doing, who would conclude “yes, these are definitely my people, they are clearly on my side”?

Poor political decisions, a broken funding model, managerial leadership, and metric‑driven governance, which together are transforming the sector into something barely recognisable as a public university system by Constantinos Alexiou and George Saridakis blogs.lse.ac.uk/impa... ​

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago. jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...

Disgraced peer Peter Mandelson was directly involved in helping Morgan McSweeney select Labour’s parliamentary candidates ahead of the 2024 general election, a party whistleblower told The i Paper 🔴 Exclusive from Kitty Donaldson ➡️ Read more: trib.al/ptSTu07

I know it’s been done but there really is no more succinct way to respond to Tory MPs who were part of the last government, saying ‘Britain is broken’ after joining Reform

🚨 Nicolas Bloom, Stanford University: "The top down version is we compare Britain to 33 other countries. That gives minus 8% (hit to GDP from Brexit)." 📉 "So (the UK) was kind of tracking right in the middle to being the second worst country" ⚠️ Brexit was an act of economic self-harm.

Opinion | Thatcher destroyed our railways, water, and housing – and we're still paying for it An honest reckoning with the Thatcher era is necessary if the country is to be restored and renewed 🖊️ By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown ➡️ Read here: trib.al/RUYdvaJ

#OtD 24 Jan 1986 print workers at Rupert Murdoch's News International went on strike against the new, open shop, no-strike plant at Wapping in London. They were all sacked and replaced by scabs and after a year they were defeated stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9655...

The government's lack of ambition on corporate governance reform is disappointing. Abandoning its Corporate Governance and Audit Reform Bill is a missed opportunity, based on the myth that regulating business effectively is bad economics. highpaycentre.org/high-pay-cen... 1/9

In this Anglia TV News clip I respond to the government’s new Water White Paper, a blueprint of their plans before any law is drafted. I was clear that our water system needs to return to public ownership. 1/3

"Many are criminals without borders who have moved from hijacking businesses to hijacking nations."

Official: Employment Rights Act will improve working conditions and job security for 18 million workers, deliver a significant net gain to society, and provide a boost to growth and employment. @tuc.org.uk analysis shows that benefits are likely to total over £10bn www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/its-of...

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

Handy debunking of some often brandished US boosterism. The US obviously presents a disastrous economic and political model; nothing to copy here bylinesnetwork.substack.com/p/decline-wh...

The fact that a man like Farage who praised Putin, made himself Mr Brexit, and campaigned for Trump is considered anything other than a crank is a fairly damning indictment of the political climate in Britain.

Official figures suggest one-fifth of minimum wage social care workers are underpaid. But the true scale of underpayment is likely higher once we account for the fact that unpaid travel time often brings home carers’ average pay below minimum wage. Read more👉https://buff.ly/veEOJFN

It diverts attention from the massive scale of corporate welfare.

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

I genuinely do not understand why this not being reported on much more. It is debatable whether they shd be in prison at all in the first place. But to let them die?

Lovely to see the Liverpool and the unmaking of Britain was the best selling non fiction at the wonderful News From Nowhere bookshop in Liverpool!

Worried about the next 12 months? Fear not. I am delighted to present, in association with the mighty @dailystar, my predictions for 2026. And I think you might be pleasantly surprised… Happy new year! CB

The new World Inequality Report shows the risks posed to the rest of us by the extreme concentration of wealth: “the world’s richest 0.001% have 3x more wealth than half of the world.” The 99% Organisation has been looking at how we must respond. 99-percent.org/extreme-weal...

Take note leaders of Europe this is what you should have bloody said.

Fantastic 😊

Reading this currently. Rather disturbing.

#OtD 29 Dec 1890 the Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota when US troops massacred over 200 Lakota men, women and children, many unarmed and fleeing. Learn more about Indigenous genocide and resistance in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/500...

‘Significant here is the attempt to play down the problem of the persisting very low chances of long-range social mobility between the wage-earning working classes and the higher-level professional and managerial occupations’ www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.

This is how systems collapse

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🔍 How is hybrid working changing in the UK? New from the Commons Library, this quick summary looks at hybrid working since the pandemic, government policy, and recent findings from a House of Lords inquiry: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/hybrid-worki...

Last week we published a report showing the super rich are using their wealth to buy huge political influence over the UK through political donations, control of the media, and Lords. Here's some ways we've been proven right since 🧵