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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 6d

Hate is on the rise, but on 18–19 Oct, thousands of us will take to the streets with one message:

Our communities are stronger when we stand together.

Join us: hopenothate.org.uk/weekend-of-h...

Join the Weekend of HOPE | 18–19 Oct

On 18–19 Oct, thousands of us will take to the streets with one message:our communities are stronger when we stand together.

hopenothate.org.uk

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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 2d

I sat on the Defend our Juries protest as a Jew opposing genocide and antisemitism countering the absurd insult that to oppose genocide is antisemitic. @defendourjuries.bsky.social @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social @owenjones.bsky.social @jewishvoice.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 7d

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

Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Private affluence and public squalor 🔽🔽🔽

Or, why modern life has become shit - all in one graph!

➡️ World #Inequality Report: wir2022.wid.world/chapter-3/

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 4h

🚨 Moronic and desperate 🔽
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 4h

📢 Shareholders and senior management of privatised water companies are greedy, looting scumbags. Running a private monopoly is the business equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel, and still they feck it up. Nationalise them now and scrap the useless CMA. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills

www.theguardian.com

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 6d

📢 #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...

Graph showing that inequality associated with far higher drug use. USA is worst performing country by far. UK also not doing well due to ongoing cost of living crisis. Scandinavian countries and Belgium do well.

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 9d

📢 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. 👍♥️✊

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 7d

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

Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Private affluence and public squalor 🔽🔽🔽

Or, why modern life has become shit - all in one graph!

➡️ World #Inequality Report: wir2022.wid.world/chapter-3/

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 7d

🤔 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".

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 7d

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

Labour considering charging workers for employment tribunal claims, sources say

Exclusive: Reintroducing tribunal fees would be ‘a gift for bad bosses’, says TUC chief Paul Nowak

www.theguardian.com

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 8d

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/...

Reform UK is on the rise — Join the local fightback

Reform UK is pushing hate and division, but thousands of people are already fighting back. From local action to challenging hate online, and building strong, united, communities, supporters like you a...

secure.hopenothate.org.uk

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 9d

🚨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.

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 8d

Don't really agree with him politically, too timid. Just seems more human than most in this govt. Think he's pushing the green agenda as far as the constraints of being in this govt, in this time, in this Overton Window, will allow. The art of the possible and all that...

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 8d

No, that was terrible. He's improved since then. Job came way too early for him.

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 8d

He's maturing nicely... 🙂

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 8d

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

UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE

Trial heard 25m surgical gowns supplied by PPE Medpro to protect NHS staff were unusable and could ‘seriously harm or kill patients’

www.theguardian.com

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Private affluence and public squalor 🔽🔽🔽

Or, why modern life has become shit - all in one graph!

➡️ World #Inequality Report: wir2022.wid.world/chapter-3/

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 #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...

US government shuts down after Democrats refuse to back Republican funding plan

First shutdown in nearly seven years as Republicans accused of ‘risking America’s healthcare’ in spending bill

www.theguardian.com

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Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · 9d

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.

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Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · 12d

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

Cursed by inequality

The history and future of societal collapse - a discussion of the new book 'Goliath's Curse' at King's College London and online on 20/10/25

fairnessfoundation.com

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 9d

📢 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. 👍♥️✊

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cuuixsilver.bsky.social @cuuixsilver.bsky.social · 9d

“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.

Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 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...

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains

Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

www.theguardian.com

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 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...

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains

Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

www.theguardian.com

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 9d

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...

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