Inequality News

Britain’s war hawks are very upset that Keir Starmer isn’t personally riding a bomb all the way to Tehran | Marina Hyde Didn’t you know? True British patriots are the ones who want to join an obviously disastrous war on behalf of Israel and Donald Trump, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

🤡🤡🤡 She cannot be ridiculed enough 🔽
"Meanwhile, Kemi Badenoch’s entire demeanour since the war was launched has been that of a teenager who discovered from social media that some of her friends got together without her at the weekend and vaporised an ayatollah." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🤔 Small island floating in the Atlantic thinks about joining #EU. Wonder if there's anything the UK government can learn from this...?

This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? | Aditya Chakrabortty The news that healthy life expectancy is in decline in Britain exposes a serious truth about the state we’re in, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

🚨🚨🚨 Blood on their hands 🔽🔽🔽. #UKfailure
"In their book Social Murder? Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK, the public health experts David Walsh and Gerry McCartney point out how Tory and Lib Dem policies effectively killed ordinary Britons." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Home Office may forcibly remove child asylum seekers from UK in handcuffs Move is part of scheme to target families for expedited voluntary removals before enforced removal proceedings

🤮🤮🤮 And further into the immoral abyss we sink...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Influencers sold the world a fantasy Dubai – and now it’s gone in a puff of missile smoke | Gaby Hinsliff The city was portrayed as an aspirational place to live, but now those who moved there are realising the precarity that comes with being an economic migrant, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

🙄 The Guardian's continuing - and mindless - preoccupation with the plight of so-called "influencers" in Dubai really does the paper no credit. Wish they would stop and focus on the real victims in this awful war and not these greedy, grifting, chancers...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Graphic displaying a Your Party statement that reads: The unprovoked attack on Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of aggression that endangers us all. This is yet another illegal US military intervention in an oil-rich country, for which there is no justification. The British government must unequivocally oppose this flagrant act of aggression and reject any use of British military facilities or resources in this potentially catastrophic war. That includes the use of British bases such as Diego Garcia and the sharing of intelligence. The UK should call for an immediate halt to the attack on Iran and suspend all arms sales and supplies to the aggressor states. The US-Israeli attack risks spreading war across the region and beyond, with a potentially devastating loss of life and a wider threat to world peace. International pressure is vital to halt the aggression now.

The unprovoked attack on Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of aggression that endangers us all.

If you agree, sign at yourparty.uk/iran

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

📢 We weren't even aware that you had to PAY to use this dross. Who does that??? Anyway, yes, everyone should #QuitGPT and, ideally, #RejectAI in its entirety... ❌ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Shabana Mahmood accused of mimicking Trump as she announces asylum plans Home secretary’s proposals to overhaul immigration system include end to permanent refugee status

🤮 We're trying not to hate this Labour govt, really trying, but they make it so hard sometimes...
#VoteGreenGetGreen #JoinGreen www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Group of people on House of Commons terrace smiling holding reports

Discussion around seated breakfast table

Timi and Will holding copies of the report

This morning the Fairness Foundation and the Black Equity Organisation launched our new joint report in Parliament on the UK’s racial wealth gap.

Combining evidence and case studies, it reveals the scale of racial wealth inequality today.

Read more 👇
fairnessfoundation.com/a-tale-of-tw...

Britain not ruling out future strikes on Iran missile sites, officials indicate ‘We just don’t know what will happen,’ western officials say, as UK bases prepare for arrival of US heavy bombers

🙄 We're not helping the US-Israeli war machine ... except when we are. Hope that clears things up... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

We don't dismiss far-right propaganda. We are very concerned about it and think it needs to be countered. Our particular interest is in socio-economic inequality and we believe this explains most of the insecurities you mention - and that if we reduced inequality, society would be far better.

Compass - Compass Compass is the home for everyone who wants to be part of a much more equal, democratic and sustainable future.

📢 We've recently joined @compassoffice.bsky.social - if you want a more pluralist politics and for progressives from all centre-left / left parties to work together to defeat the far-right threat from Reform UK, the Tories, and assorted other grubby fash, please join us. ♥️ www.compassonline.org.uk

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🤔 We're not exactly fans of #Starmer but this never blinds us to the absolute dross that is #Badenoch and #Farage. Their pathetic and slavish following of the Trumpian tune, whatever it is on any given day, demonstrates their total and utter unfitness for high office - or any office for that matter.

🤮 What should we call this? 🔽 Psychopathy? Evil?

Dear Spain

Would your PM be open to a side hustle running the UK?

Yours in anticipation...
The People of the UK.

Dear Spain

Would your PM be open to a side hustle running the UK?

Yours in anticipation...
The People of the UK.

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Dubai influencers’ lives of luxury interrupted by Iran strikes: ‘The image of safety has been shattered’ Contradicting images of parties and war-flooded feeds after Iran targeted Gulf states in retaliation for US-Israeli attacks

🙄 Will no one think how this dreadful conflict is affecting the influencers...? We generally like The Guardian but sometimes its inability to assess who or what is important and who or what is not important is infuriating... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Stop oligarchs buying democracy Billionaires are gaining too much power over our democracy. It's time to stop it.

Billionaires are gaining too much power over our democracy. I just signed an @equalitytrust.bsky.social petition to stop them. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

Inequality in Britain is rampant, writes @pollytoynbee.bsky.social, and has become so with the help of our electoral system.

Our new research paper, 'Lifting the Lid', links our fragmenting voting system to mass regional deprivation, and regional deprivation to the all-powerful nature of FPTP.

Want to stop Farage with your vote? At the moment you can’t – and Starmer must fix that | Polly Toynbee The PM’s in-tray is overflowing. But he can’t afford to neglect the real issue that is distorting our politics and the way we live, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

🙄 There is almost something heroic (or astoundingly stupid?) about Polly T. and her sticking by Starmer and his failing govt, believing they will do the right thing eventually even if there is absolutely no evidence that they will... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s recent efforts to woo centre-ground voters may cause tension in party’s right flank, says Hope Not Hate

🤔 Turns out, Reform members really are the knuckle-dragging hateful racists you always thought they were... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Would recommend still writing to Starmer. He seems to be in the deepest denial and needs to be given a wake up call.

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

📢 THIS - A MILLION TIMES THIS 🔽🔽🔽 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We can agree to disagree. We're voting #Green but we're also dangling a carrot in front of our not wholly useless #Labour MP to try and get him to do the right thing...

We're probably going to need a progressive coalition to keep Reform and the Tories out at the next election, so it's in every sane person's interest to try and change the Labour party to something more left-wing and pluralist if we can.

We're probably going to need a progressive coalition to keep Reform and the Tories out at the next election, so it's in every sane person's interest to try and change the Labour party to something more left-wing and pluralist if we can.

We will but no harm in using leverage to try and return Labour to its senses and get rid of the Starmerites.