Ruth Hannan

💥 "Billionaires’ wealth has more than doubled since 2010. How many of our constituents can say that their wages have doubled, their standard of living has doubled, that their wealth has doubled in that time?"

@richardburgon.bsky.social asking the real questions in the Budget debate.

This looks like the opening scene of a football themed zombie apocalypse movie.

17 MILLION PEOPLE would have access to clean drinking water if debt repayments were slashed...Imagine if all debts were CANCELLED

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Publications Reports and publications Running on empty: unpaid carer’s experiences of fuel poverty in the UK An estimated 6.1 million households in the UK are in fuel poverty, their finances strained unde…

Reporting on the £28bn investment on energy infrastructure is making my blood boil. 2 days after our fuel poverty report. Green energy is seen as a cost but never any scrutiny of the £125billion energy company profits.
carefulleconomy.co.uk/publications/

What does the gig economy reveal to us about the wider systems that connect us all? And what do we do about it?

In our latest episode of Words of Affirmation - out now - our brilliant guest Joe Durbidge from @iwgbunion.bsky.social joins us fo discuss. Listen at linktr.ee/carefulleconomy

There are a few places left for our exciting London event on Friday with People's Economy. Exploring how London can centre care in its economy.
Tickets are free and you can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-a...

Revealed: MPs rack up huge rent expenses while pushing through cuts to benefits MPs are allowed to rent a second home, but while they are simultaneously cutting benefits for the vulnerable, the cost feels hard to swallow.

Lee Anderson, who makes nearly £200,000 a year, repeatedly calls for benefit clampdowns, and described Britain as a “food bank for the world”...

...claims more in taxpayer-funded hotel bills than any other MP in England, billing the taxpayer for £22.5k in 2024/25 www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

I think the clue is in the name. I work in one.

‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media ownership affect political decisions

Well done @equalitytrust.bsky.social ! Great analysis and report
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

You beat me to this. I would go as far as to ask @ippr.org to take this post down and reframe it. It is a huge error which distracts from a really useful analysis.

Let's not perpetuate this language. Let's call it what it is. Hateful. Rooted in bigotry and the gateway drug that allowed austerity to destroy lives.

Great to have this analysis, but first and foremost we must call out this language of judgement & othering. By not challenging it we validate it.

Labour must back delivery drivers sacked by DPD, former cabinet minister says Louise Haigh criticises delivery company over treatment of workers who spoke out against pay cuts

Normalisation of "gig work" & "gig economy" masks the precarity of work that nearly 5m undertake. This is the tip of an iceberg of the erosion of workers rights.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
We spoke to lovely Joe, from @iwgbunion.bsky.social for Words of Affirmation. Give it a listen.

the BBC should apologise with a montage of all the times Trump showed support for 6 Jan and they should get the person who does the end of World Cup montage to do it

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

More wise words from @carefull.bsky.social, this time on Paul Scholes' announcement that he's sidelining paid work to care for his autistic son. This is a dilemma that affects so many carers in our economy; article link in the comments

Rockstar workers fight grand theft of jobs MORE than 200 trade unionists and community activists picketed Rockstar Games in Edinburgh today in solidarity with 30 workers sacked for joining a union.The company, famed for its Grand Theft Auto fr...

Rockstar Games, "famed for its Grand Theft Auto franchise, the latest edition of which netted more than $1billion (£770 million) in pre-sale orders alone, last week fired all 30 workers who had been part of an Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) Discord channel"

This week Paul Scholes shared his experiences of caring for his son alongside his professional role and it resonated with us. In our economy - that devalues and isolates care - the challenges he faced are shared by millions, but not everyone has the resources he has to fall back on.

Isolating carers is an own goal for all of us | LBC Paul Scholes’ wealth doesn’t protect him from the worries about his son’s future, but it does enable him to give up paid work without any impact on his family’s financial wellbeing, writes Ruth Hannan

Read the full article from our co-founder @ruthhannan.bsky.social www.lbc.co.uk/article/isol...

At Care Full we support the four-day week for its potential benefits to unpaid carers. The government needs to catch up. The evidence points to too many positives to ignore.

Did you see our new report launched yesterday? Check out our thread below.

An excellent briefing on all things care related. Pulling together issues with our current model and setting out the potential for ambitious changes. Thanks for including @carefull.bsky.social new report. Out today.

Care Full ( @carefull.bsky.social ) are looking at how experiences of care unite us all, and how that should be recognised. Please check them out!

Book launch Rewriting Social Care London 23 October 6:30pm Tickets £12 - includes a glass of fizz and 15% off the book if you buy it at the launch

Bryony and Beverley wearing long colourful dresses. Bryony is holding a glass of wine and Beverley is holding a copy of Bryony’s book.

Come and join me and Beverley Ward chatting about #RewritingSocialCare in London on Thursday 23 October #BookLaunch www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

I went a couple of weeks ago. I thought the whole place especially its social conscience messages was brill.

My reflections on this positive event, it feels there's a real opportunity for us to shift the narrative on care. We're so keen to create a hopeful future full of abundance for all of us, it's good to see others feel the same.

Few thoughts from me on the newly launched report from @centreforcare.bsky.social

A graphic advertising an event called 'Radical Abundance'. The poster features the words "Wordlife Present... a Reading Rooms event", the cover of the book 'Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future', and the words "In conversation with Keir Milburn and Debs Grayson. Thu 2 October. 7–9:15pm. The Workstation, Sheffield"

Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don’t need and too little of what we do.

Join us in Sheffield on 2 October to hear Keir Milburn in conversation about the alternative: Radical Abundance ✨

Tickets 👉 tickettailor.com/events/wordlife/1838497

People say the BBC lack flexibility in the modern digital era, but the launch and roll out of their 24 hour Charlie Kirk News channel in a matter of hours was pretty impressive.