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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 10h

🚨 New research published today

'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families.

Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK

Senior Economist Molly Broome:
"Wealth gaps in Britain are now so large that a typical full-time employee saving all their earnings across their entire working life would still not be able to reach the top of the wealth ladder. These gaps are doubly concerning as wealth mobility in Britain is low – people that start life wealthy tend to stay wealthy, and vice versa.
Rising house prices and changes in the value of pension promises account for most of the growth in wealth gaps since the early 2010s, rather than any active behaviour on the part of individuals, such as buying homes or acquiring new assets.
Soaring wealth and an acute need for more revenue has prompted fresh talk of wealth taxes ahead of the Budget next month. But with property and pensions now representing 80 per cent of the growing bulk of household wealth, we need to be honest that higher wealth taxes are likely to fall on pensioners, Southern homeowners or their families, rather than just being paid by the super-rich."

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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · 9h

30,000 troops in Vietnam race to rescue families after record floods e.vnexpress.net/news/news/en... #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Typhoon #Matmo #Flood #Hanoi #Vietnam

30,000 troops in Vietnam race to rescue families after record floods - VnExpress International

Vietnam's military has mobilized over 30,000 troops, helicopters and rescue boats to rush aid as floodwaters surge across northern provinces in the wake of Typhoon Matmo.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 4h

😆 Council leader Linden Kemkaran, a former #BBC journalist, said #Kent was a test-bed for the party’s national policies and the 🫣 shop window through which everybody is going to see what a Reform government might look like 🫣

@josiah.writes.news

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 10h

#Class ➡️ #WhatsInAWord ⬇️

Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 6d

Seeing talk on here about class makes me wish people could at least acknowledge the Marxian point that class is not just another form of identity politics, but is about one's relationship to the means of production - eg I'm now bourgeois whatever my upbringing, prejudices etc.

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 10h

🚨 #THIS 🚨

Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 10h

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21h

Man and teenage boy arrested over cyber-attack on London nurseries

Hackers stole data of 8,000 children from Kido nursery chain and posted 10 profiles with threat to publish more A man and a boy have been arrested in connection with an alleged cyber-attack on a set of nurseries in Greater London. The man, 22, and boy, 17, were arrested on suspicion of computer misuse and blackmail at residential properties in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire on Tuesday and remain in custody for questioning. Continue reading...

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 21h

#ICYMI @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social 😉

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 23h

Netanyahu enrages families after using incorrect hostages figure as poll shows most Israelis want him to quit www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Netanyahu enrages families after using incorrect hostages figure

Netanyahu incorrectly told an interviewer there were 46 hostages captured by Hamas, rather than 48

www.independent.co.uk

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 22h

🚨🚨

Excellent letter!

#ICYMI @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social @conservatives.bsky.social cc @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social

@churchofengland.org

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h

Andy Street, ex-Mayor of the West Midlands (Conservative) says why he believes Robert Jenrick was wrong about Handsworth [calling it a slum + the least integrated place in Britain after a brief visit of an hour or two to record a video clip]
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll put it bluntly, Robert is wrong… it’s actually a very integrated place... Not the definition of a slum.”

Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands 2017-24, responds to Robert Jenrick's comments on Handsworth.

#Newsnight

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 22h

🚨 #ProtestMatters 🚨

Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 23h

While I agree that it wd have been a sign of empathy and respect towards the Jewish communities in Britain to pause the protest on this very day, I also do find these attempts to declare who is British and who isn't increasingly worrying.
Who is Starmer to define that ?

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’

Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

www.theguardian.com

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

♥️ #HelpingHands

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1d

An unconscious and unresponsive man found lying flat on his back in a town centre street was saved by a campaigning councillor and a paramedic who gave cardio-pulmonary resuscitation ✍️ Martin Shipton

Unresponsive man saved by campaigner and defibrillator

Martin Shipton An unconscious and unresponsive man found lying flat on his back in a town centre street was saved by a campaigning councillor and a paramedic who gave cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. D...

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

@andydavies4.bsky.social #ICYMI

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1d

An unconscious and unresponsive man found lying flat on his back in a town centre street was saved by a campaigning councillor and a paramedic who gave cardio-pulmonary resuscitation ✍️ Martin Shipton

Unresponsive man saved by campaigner and defibrillator

Martin Shipton An unconscious and unresponsive man found lying flat on his back in a town centre street was saved by a campaigning councillor and a paramedic who gave cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. D...

wp.me

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

#Race #Racism #Racist⬇️

#WeSeeYou @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social ⬇️

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Robert Jenrick accused of fuelling ‘toxic nationalism’ with Birmingham claims

Shadow justice secretary stands by comments made in March amid criticism including from a Tory colleague Robert Jenrick has been accused of fuelling a “fire of toxic nationalism” after he doubled down on his complaint about “not seeing another white face” in part of Birmingham. The shadow justice secretary was criticised by politicians across the parties, local leaders and the bishop of Birmingham after the Guardian published his remarks from March. Continue reading...

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

#Food4Thought ➡️ #AI

Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 1d

AI pushers talk about it "augmenting" capacity, but that ignores human nature. Why walk or bike, when you can drive? It's easier, so most of us do, but you get fat & lazy. AI will do the same to a lot of people's brains, I fear. Via @financialtimes.com piece on AI habits
ig.ft.com/ai-personal-...

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

#RefugeeMatters #Refugees

@axrenton.bsky.social @c4ciaran.bsky.social #ICYMI

Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 1d

And he wrote about the old inhabitants. They were not Germans but Wends, Slavs who had survived in the marshes since the Germans colonised the fertile land almost a thousand years before

Neal Ascheron on Frederick the Great and the draining of the Oderbruch

One of my favourite writers is Neal Ascherson. Among many other achievements, it was he, and not Tony Benn, who came up with the well-known ...

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 1d

And he wrote about the old inhabitants. They were not Germans but Wends, Slavs who had survived in the marshes since the Germans colonised the fertile land almost a thousand years before

Neal Ascheron on Frederick the Great and the draining of the Oderbruch

One of my favourite writers is Neal Ascherson. Among many other achievements, it was he, and not Tony Benn, who came up with the well-known ...

liberalengland.blogspot.com

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

#PublicHealth #malaria

@honigsbaum.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @vsmacdonald.bsky.social #ICYI

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Inspired by a military strategy to ward off disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers see if the technique will help cut malaria infections in little ones. n.pr/3IwwWQc

Babies take a lesson from soldiers in the war against malaria

Inspired by a military strategy to ward off disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers see if the technique will help cut malaria infections in little ones.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

⚽ 🔎 Where's the goalpost gone...🔍 ⚽

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

🚌 #PublicTransport ➡️ #RuralTransport➡️ #Buses

👏 #GreenParty leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social listing need for rural #transport in his conference speech. With just *one bus a week* #Barnstaple to #Torrington, trust @northdevongreens.bsky.social will build on this. @adrianramsay.bsky.social

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

And transport... you seem to forget. So good job @greenparty.org.uk #GreenParty leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social called out need for rural
#transport in his conference speech. With just *one bus a week* between #Barnstaple & #Torrington, trust you& @northdevongreens.bsky.social will build on this🤞

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

@jim-hunt.bsky.social

🚌 #PublicTransport ➡️ #RuralTransport➡️ #Buses 🚌

👏 #GreenParty leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social listing need for rural #transport in his conference speech. With just *one bus a week* between #Barnstaple & #Torrington, trust @northdevongreens.bsky.social will build on this..🤞

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

🚌 #PublicTransport ➡️ #RuralTransport➡️ #Buses 🚌

👏 #GreenParty leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social listing need for rural #transport in his conference speech. With just *one bus a week* between #Barnstaple & #Torrington, trust @northdevongreens.bsky.social will build on this. @jackeade.bsky.social

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 #RaceRacismRacist #WeSeeYou

#RobertJenrick @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social @conservatives.bsky.social

Still standing by your man, @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social... 🫣

@hopenothate.org.uk

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

#RaceRacismRacist #WeSeeYou

#RobertJenrick @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social @conservatives.bsky.social @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social

>@hopenothate.org.uk

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA