Equality Trust

We asked our supporters who they'd hypothetically vote for in the Gorton and Denton by-election and a general election. 1/3 said they prioritised voting against a disliked party.
This week we're asking what you'd do with the House of Lords. Vote now: https://equalitytrust.org.uk/weekly-poll/

Senior Digital Engagement Officer - Equality Trust We're looking for a Senior Digital Engagement Officer to develop and implement our digital communications strategy

Don't forget to apply to our Senior Digital Engagement Officer role! Applications close this Thursday. You don't want to miss this chance to mobilise the movement against inequality. Get your applications in at: https://equalitytrust.org.uk/job-vacancy/senior-digital-engagement-officer-2/

Collage of news clippings highlights billionaire influence on democracy, tax policies, and political campaigns worldwide.

The completely shocking utterly unsurprising reports about Mandelson, Epstein and banks show how broken the UK's system is – but we're not alone. Billionaires are exerting influence worldwide. We should stop them.

Inequality and health: Lost in the mists of time? Inequality has a profound negative effect on health and wellbeing: not because it suddenly kills, but by slowly reshaping how people live, relate, cope, and age

Inequality has a profoundly negative effect on health and wellbeing.

Not because it suddenly kills, but because it slowly reshapes how people live, relate, cope, and age.

Richard Wilkinson and @profkepickett.bsky.social @equalitytrust.bsky.social on @lseinequalities.bsky.social

What Does ‘Lived Experience’ Really Mean? Our Panel’s Perspective Our Lived Experience Panel shares what the term ‘lived experience’ means to them, why language matters, and how genuine inclusion shapes real policy change.

Our latest blog, written by members of our Lived Experience Panel, explores the language we use and asks 'What Does Lived Experience Really Mean?'

fairbydesign.com/blog-what-li...

Person holding a green sign reading 'TAX THE RICH' at a protest, with a job vacancy for Senior Digital Engagement Officer by Equality Trust below.

We're hiring a new Senior Digital Engagement Officer to help grow our movement and tell stories about inequality's damage to our society!
Apply by 5th Feb: https://equalitytrust.org.uk/job-vacancy/senior-digital-engagement-officer-2/

A picture of Kate Pickett inviting you to the launch of her book the Good Society at 6pm on Wednesday 4th February.

Join us and our friends at Compass for the launch of Professor Kate Pickett's new book The Good Society online at 6pm on Wed 4th February. Featuring a truly stacked lineup of Caroline Lucas, Ruth Lister, George Monbiot and of course, Professor Kate Pickett.
Sign up now: https://ow.ly/kkpb50Y794O

The pre-eminent researchers into the impact of inequality said

Inequality as a fog that gradually seeps into every corner of social life.

Inequality has left such a deep imprint on health and wellbeing not because it suddenly kills, but because it slowly reshapes how people live, relate, cope, and age – until the damage can no longer be hidden
#Equity

Labour: the friend of cheats, crooks, and conpeople As AccountingWEB (of which I was for a decade at the start of the century a contributing editor) noted yesterday: The expected timeline for small companies and micro entities to file their profit and ...

Tax researcher Richard Murphy has a useful (and punchy) blog here explaining: www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01...

Changes to corporate tax transparency regulations that would have required businesses to publish actual information about their activities have been quietly delayed by the government. Not only will this encourage more tax avoidance, it'll also make it much harder to tackle fraud, abuse or crime.

A job vacancy image featuring a woman speaking into a megaphone at a community event, as if to convey the idea of an engagement officer. The text reads: new job vacancy, Senior Digital Engagement Officer. Fulltime, £42,064. London/hybrid. Apply by Thurs 5th February.

Inequality is moving fast. We've got 20,000 supporters to keep informed, MPs to lobby, research to promote, narratives to build, and community organising work all over the country. Be a part of that! Apply to be our next Senior Digital Engagement Officer: https://ow.ly/8WzP50Y3GsP

‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10 Newton Aycliffe was meant to be a model town for a fairer postwar Britain. But unaffordable rents on a high street amounting to 0.12% of its property tycoon owner’s holdings have made it a symbol of d...

We're getting more and more proof that billionaire enrichment is at the expense of the rest of us. We need to tax the richest to invest in the rest of us, sure – but we also need to tax them to reduce their power over our lives.

Inequality and health: Lost in the mists of time? Inequality has a profound negative effect on health and wellbeing: not because it suddenly kills, but by slowly reshaping how people live, relate, cope, and age

“Inequality has left such a deep imprint on health and wellbeing not because it suddenly kills, but because it slowly reshapes how people live, relate, cope and age”

– Richard Wilkinson & @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social

#LSEInequalitiesBlog

Senior Digital Engagement Officer - Equality Trust Title: Senior Digital Engagement OfficerHours: Full time (35 hours a week) – we are open to job shares and part time workSalary: £42,064.78  (3.1% inflationary pay increase from 1st April 2026)Location: London (Vauxhall) – we are open to hybrid working with at least 2 days per week working in personBenefits: closure between Christmas and New […]

Do you believe inequality is a crisis? Think you're good at convincing others that's the case? We're looking for a Senior Digital Engagement Officer to develop and implement our digital comms strategy. Apply by 5th Feb!
https://equalitytrust.org.uk/job-vacancy/senior-digital-engagement-officer-2/

Resisting the Rule of the Rich: Defending Freedom Against Billionaire Power | Oxfam International

Read their report: www.oxfam.org/en/resisting...

❌We don’t need water company ‘MOTs’ and stickers on dishwashers.

We need real action to fix a system that has been ripping people off and illegally dumping sewage with no accountability.

We need public ownership.

Help us act: actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...

Oxfam research reveals £13.7 trillion wealth concentrated among 3,000 billionaires worldwide. This is bad.

Enough money to end global poverty 26 times over. That's how much money billionaires have made since 2020 according to Oxfam's new research. But instead of doing that, they're using this obscene cash pile to brazenly manipulate politics, buy governments, and rule us.

Oxfam Billionaire Wealth Tracker showing billionaires' wealth increased by $9.8 billion in one day, compared with how little of that money it would take to provide clean water.

Oxfam's new billionaire wealth tracker is the most entertainingly depressing tool I've seen in a while – the sheer scale of riches hoarded by billionaires is obscene, especially when you see how much public good tiny fractions of it could do.
https://www.oxfam.org/en/oxfam-billionaire-wealth-tracker

Briefing: Inequality and the Child Poverty Strategy - Equality Trust The Child Poverty Strategy is a serious attempt to reduce hardship, but believes poverty can be solved without confronting wealth and power.

Other European and advanced economies have been reducing child poverty rates – but the UK has been sharply increasing it for over a decade. The government has answered with a Child Poverty Strategy, but does it understand the real crisis? Read our briefing now: https://ow.ly/lVGT50XZAJW

Graph with a small pile of money and a much larger pile of money. Text reads; "Billionaire fortunes have grown at a rate three times faster in the last year than they did on average in the 5 previous years."

‼️"Billionaire wealth jumps three times faster in 2025 to highest peak ever, sparking dangerous political inequality"
Find out more: bit.ly/4qpnuyI

Number of UK newspaper editorials arguing for more (blue) and less (red) climate action, 2011-2025. Some editorials also present a “balanced” view, which is categorised as advocating for neither “more” nor “less” climate action. These editorials are not represented in this chart. Source: Carbon Brief analysis.

NEW – Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @sylviahayes.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/eAPkvkx

Why a land 'fire sale' is making it impossible to build affordable homes Decades of the privatisation of once-public land is one of the biggest barriers to meeting ambitious housing targets

"Around a tenth of Britain’s land has been privatised since 1979. Now if councils want to buy land back they are charged extortionate prices shaped by speculation and scarcity, making it harder for them to afford to build social homes," said @hollies.bsky.social

inews.co.uk/news/politic...

He’s not wrong.

(images via @equalitytrust.bsky.social)

@equalitytrust.bsky.social Bless the Equality Trust 4 being brave enough 2 abandon Twitter (or X as the head twit would have us call it) & it's nastiness!

I wish our government, public bodies & others would be brave enough 2 do so too.

This will help hit the owner's wealth; maybe then he'll act?

A headline describing Oxfam's new research report: The richest 1% have already exceeded their carbon emission share for 2026 in just a few days. Private jets fly behind the headline.

Maybe you're doing dry January, Veganuary, or trying something else to live a little better this month. You know who isn't? The richest. The UK's richest produced more carbon in 8 days than 50% of the population use in a year.

Can local currency financing help solve the climate and debt crisis? Join us for a discussion on the challenges and opportunities of expanding local currency financing to tackle the climate and debt crisis

Local currencies could help Global South countries reclaim control over economic policy and respond to the climate crisis.

Hear from leading experts in a webinar on the topic:
📅 Thursday 22 January
🕠 5:30 pm GMT

Register now to join the discussion:

With a single change, this government will lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty. Scrapping the two-child limit will lift was the best thing to come out of the last budget - and we should never go back.

The average FTSE 100 CEO is making 113 times the median full-time worker's wage – but why rely on averages? Our calculator can tell you exactly how long it'll take a CEO to get paid your salary 🫵
Try it now: https://equalitytrust.org.uk/news/ceos-paid-a-full-years-wage-in-just-29-hours/

I can't believe privatised water would fail us in this way. Surely South East Water, which spent more on debt and dividends than infrastructure, is not to blame