Suzanne Bold

When are people gonna learn you can’t end wars, you can only start them.

Barely zone 2, but the sweetest stage is to be found at the Ivy House pub in Nunhead

Reform UK have watered down their plans to “challenge every single tenet” of economic policy.

So what does Reform’s economic platform look like now? This week we digest what we know so far – and what happens when rhetoric meets the realities of governing: www.neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/r...

BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing new legislation to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half.

A chunk of the money raised would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K.

Let’s be clear – an Extreme Wealth Line is not a cap on wealth An extreme wealth line (EWL) defines a level where the harms associated with extreme wealth become socially unacceptable. It is not the same as a cap on wealth

I think it’s possible! I’ve been heartened to see a lot of discussion amongst LDs on the harms of extreme wealth, exploring what a liberal response to these harms could look like.

This blog post outlines the social indicator we’re collectively developing: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

but would Lab have held onto the mayorality in may?

Barmy

If you’re a fan on being bloody furious, Labour MP Karl Turner, on #Radio4Today at 7.10, is worth a bloody listen.

It’s unwise for Labour to attack the Green party and its wealth tax proposal | Letters Letters: Readers respond to the Fabian Society’s leader, Joe Dromey, describing the Green party as a threat to be countered alongside Reform

Some welcome rebuttal here from @richardburgon.bsky.social

It’s hard to imagine that same interview taking quite the same line if it were held today. We’re clearly in the market for solutions to mitigate the harms of extreme wealth, not cheap sneers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If ever there was a time to take the day off for KB, it would have been today.

Thinking of her

how the turns have tabled

my advice is everyone goes to sleep now

📢 Our new report, Funding Scotland’s Future: Tax Reform for a Just Transition, has made the front page of @scotsman.com.

It sets out credible, progressive reforms that could raise £2.3bn a year, support climate goals, and protect those on lower incomes.

⬇️ www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...

🎥 BIG MONEY IS CORRUPTING OUR POLITICS 🎥

UK politics has a big money problem 💷

The super-rich use money to buy honours, influence and access to power. It erodes trust in our politics and undermines our democracy.

The UK needs a cap on donations to end big money in our politics.

More below ⤵️

This. The age limit is not the thing! Put out the raging fire in your home swiftly or flee all together, don't just banish the kids to the basement.

Sky above the allotment today is whispering ‘spring’

It's clear who Reform UK stand for - and it's not workers.

They seek to sow division, while committing to throw our hard-won rights on the scrapheap.

labourunions.org.uk/stop-reform/

If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat? Amid talk of artificial intelligence taking our jobs, the big unasked question is: how will we be fed?

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
"Capital taxation amounts to just over 2% of GDP [in the US]. These numbers will have to go much higher, since people will no longer have wages to live on and will rely more heavily on government largesse."

Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction? He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Doesn't matter who commissions a poll as long as the company is credible, which this one is.

France and Germany agreed to build the fighter jet of the future. Now they can’t agree who is in charge FCAS, which also involves Spain, is imploding at a high-stakes moment for Europe, as threat rises from Russia

😐 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

"It is not simply about who gains access, but how the system allows well-resourced actors to exert disproportionate influence over policy decisions."

A powerful intervention from @patmillsuk.bsky.social on why we need to stop the super-rich from buying access to power.

Read the full piece ⤵️

The wealthy are buying political influence. As a millionaire, I'm asking you to stop us | LBC An annual cap on political donations would ensure that wealth strengthens society rather than distorts it, writes millionaire Phil White

"If “one person, one vote” is to mean anything, we can no longer ignore how concentrated wealth can distort political influence." - Phil White, PMUK

https://lbc.pulse.ly/kneyuhnead

the state of this

our little teams world domination continues at pace

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

"The cheek" of it: Our member Julia Davies responds to Sir Jim Ratcliffe's comments that the "UK has been colonised by immigrants"