📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.25) ✅ More #equal countries suffer less drug use/abuse. ❌ US worst affected. UK drug problem worsening, driven by cost of living crisis. Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️. For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...

📢 We're going to take another short break next week, so the next #Inequality Graph of the Week will be posted up this Friday instead of the usual Saturday. 👍♥️✊

📢 Hat-tip 🎩 to the wonderful @equalitytrust.bsky.social for bringing this graph 🔽 to our attention ♥️

🤔 The left really should stop using the word "neoliberal". The broad mass of people don't know what it means so, politically, it's useless. The right are much better at using plain words that people understand. The left has fallen very far from, say, the beautiful clarity of "Peace, Land, Bread".

🚨 Good grief 🔽🙄 What sort of "Labour" govt is this...? www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

Across the UK, people are organising to hold Reform UK to account and push back against their hate. Get involved 👇 secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/157246/...

🚨IMPORTANT - LOCATION CHANGE!📍 The Lift The Ban action set to take place on October 4th in London has changed location - it will now take place in Trafalgar Square from 1pm due to grass maintenance on Parliament square (seriously). Visit wedonotcomply.org for more info Please share widely.

We like Ed Miliband. There, we said it. 🙂

📢 Good, now jail these crooks 🔽 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

🚨 Private affluence and public squalor 🔽🔽🔽 Or, why modern life has become shit - all in one graph! ➡️ World #Inequality Report: wir2022.wid.world/chapter-3/

🚨 #Inequality has torn the US apart - economically, socially, and politically - and rendered it almost ungovernable. #Trump is more a morbid symptom than cause, although his contribution is wholly malign and negative. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Quick reaction to the PM's conference speech (🧵) "Wealth creation is hoarded by just a few communities", the PM said in his conference speech today. Another way of putting this is that too much wealth is extracted from our economy, rather than genuinely being created in the first place.

What can we learn from previous societies where rampant inequality undermined social cohesion, in many cases to the point of collapse? Join us and @warstudieskcl.bsky.social for a discussion with Dr Luke Kemp, author of 'Goliath's Curse', and @dhnnjyn.bsky.social on 20 October at 6.15pm to find out

📢 We're going to take another short break next week, so the next #Inequality Graph of the Week will be posted up this Friday instead of the usual Saturday. 👍♥️✊

“The study found that children living in areas with higher rates of inequality had a reduced cortex surface area and altered connections between different areas of the brain, _regardless_ of individual circumstances such as family income and education.” Emphasis mine.

🚨 THIS 🔽🔽🔽 'Prof Kate Pickett, a co-author of the study from the University of York, said the findings showed reducing inequalities “isn’t just about economics – it’s a public health imperative”.' www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Yes, it feels like she has a bully pulpit - and uses it. To be fair, wonder if there have ever been any billionaires who don't think they should be listened to all the time? With great wealth comes great entitlement it seems...

📢 WRONG ‼️ WRONG ‼️ WRONG ‼️ 🙄 Redistribution of wealth is the antidote to division. The proceeds of growth go largely to the already very rich. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

📢 THIS A MILLION TIMES THIS 🔽🔽🔽 It's not the lumpen racist vote that will make #Farage PM. It's the lumpen racist vote + a huge number of poor and precarious very angry people who will vote for change (any change!) that will make #Farage PM. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🤔 J.K. Rowling doesn't come across as a very nice person... www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

🚨 AI will be the next dotcom bust. Mainstream commentators are now talking more about "when", not "if" the crash will come. Sadly, the tech-bro billionaires will be largely unaffected and, as usual, workers will pay with their jobs and tanked pensions. fortune.com/2025/09/28/a...

✅ #Reform is a racist party. Nigel #Farage is a racist. ✅ People who support and/or vote #Reform are either racists or are too stupid/lazy to learn what this party is about. ✅ "Concern about immigration" is a stalking-horse/proxy for overt racism which our degraded public discourse now permits. 😢

📢 Please consider signing this 🔽🔽🔽 - thank you ♥️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

📢 ARE YOU READY for identity verification at Companies House...? It will be mandatory from 18 November 2025 onwards. All charities, social enterprises, campaign groups, not-for-profits etc, if registered at Companies House, will have to comply. changestoukcompanylaw.campaign.gov.uk/identity-ver...

Co-operatives do business better: 💷 4x more likely to be Living Wage Employers 📈 82% survive 5 years (vs 39% UK average) 👩‍💼 Women more likely to reach the top Explore the #CoopEconomy 👇 uk.coop/news/record-...

Yes, he and #Labour are still far from where we would want them to be. But when they do or say something right, we will applaud that. It also shows that, maybe, pressure from the left is having some effect.

🚨 This is better🔽 - more please... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🚨 Eh? This is a solution desperately seeking a problem. And no one in the UK, which is deeply mired in a cost of living crisis, will think this is a priority. Why is this govt so bad at basic politics??? Why does it lurch from one disaster to another??? Idiots. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What if our society was equal? It can be. But we need you 🫵 to join us 🟰 Subscribe to On The Level now to hear the truth about inequality and the ways people all over the world are winning equality.

With an forward by @labourlewis.bsky.social and contributions from @jemgilbert.bsky.social, @philbc3.bsky.social, @meadwaj.bsky.social, @dannydorling.bsky.social and many others, it looks like a good read. And there's a discount if you buy it through them...

‼️ Christian nationalism has become increasingly visible within the far right in the UK, with Tommy Robinson’s September rally in London being a prime example 👇 hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/25/t...

ANNOUNCEMENT - OCTOBER 4TH We can now reveal that the next Lift The Ban action will take place on October 4th from 1pm in London’s Parliament Square, bringing together a minimum of 1,500 Lift The Ban signholders. Make a commitment at: wedonotcomply.org

🚨 Remember when Facebook used to be mostly for grandparents keeping tabs on their children and grandchildren... 😢 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

📢 Just for the record, we don't reply to DMs. Thank You!

The fact the plans are batshit isn't really the point. It's enough (sadly) just for him to say them. That will attract the votes of bigots and simpletons. And if you add the votes of people crushed by the cost of living crisis to the #Reform core vote of lumpen racists then it's PM Farage.

🤔 Is it too "Tinfoil Hat" to suggest that the billionaire-bankrolled far-right's war against medicine is because they're fed up with too many poor people cluttering up "their world" - or are we on to something? They've tried eugenics and now they're trying this. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

📢 THIS 🔽🔽🔽🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.24) 🚨 Beyond a certain level, increases in wealth do not increase happiness. ✅ People are generally happier in more #equal countries. Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️. For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...

🚨 With #Labour in serious trouble and seemingly incapable of turning it around, only a coup to bring in #Burnham as Leader, plus massive tactical voting, can save us from the unmitigated disaster of a vicious, corrupt, and wildly incompetent Trumpian #Reform govt in 2029...

📢 The Barbarians are at the gate, and #Labour is holding that gate open and rolling out the red (or should that be sickly pale blue?) carpet...

Too many people feel that our economy is rigged against them- that no matter how hard they work or what contribution they make, they can't get by. Our new report examines how this is fuelling the rise of populist politics- and what we can do about it. 🔗https://fairnessfoundation.com/rigged

🚨 What next, the return of the stocks, tarring and feathering? How far back in time can this sad, failing, pathetic little benighted Isle go? www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

🚨 Seriously, you have to ask, is #Reform already in power in Britain? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📢 SorryWhatPardon??? Satire sets itself on fire and then throws itself off a cliff for good measure... 🙄 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

🚨 Eh? This is a solution desperately seeking a problem. And no one in the UK, which is deeply mired in a cost of living crisis, will think this is a priority. Why is this govt so bad at basic politics??? Why does it lurch from one disaster to another??? Idiots. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Crime don't pay But neither do they" www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6jU...

100+ people are expected to defy Labour’s absurd ban at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Sunday. 🥀 Labour is complicit in Israel’s genocide, and they’re proscribing direct action groups to try and hide their own guilt. Full Press Release: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"Do health professionals have a special duty to speak up against the genocide? I think we do." Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action www.bmj.com/content/390/...

#Gaza is no anomaly: Hunger & hoarding are the West’s oldest weapons www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

🚨 Love this (very sweary) ♥️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=17QM...