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Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit

Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind

Boom time for US billionaires: why the system perpetuates wealth inequality As the super rich grow even richer, inequality expert Chuck Collins says the system is broken – but it can be fixed

At the height of the pandemic in 2020, the wealth of the world’s billionaires grew 54%.

That's not a design flaw of our system. It's the system working as it is currently intended to. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

A picture of Professor Richard Wilkinson and Professor Kate Pickett

Catch our wonderful co-founders Professors Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson (and many other great speakers, but they didn't help found the Equality Trust) at Australia's Equity Co-Lab Summit next week! You can find out more about this year's Fair By Design theme here: equitycolab.org/2025...

🚨 Bank taxes on the front page of The i today! 🚨

Our #TaxTheBanks campaign has never felt this close to a win - now we need you to email your MP to get it over the line!

Head to bit.ly/TaxTheBanksMP... and use our template today!

A crowd at a protest, with signs reading "Drop the Ban Defend the Right to Protest", "Red Line for Gaza", and "Stand Up For Gaza".

Horrified by what’s happening in Gaza? Wondering what you can do?
Download our free #RedLineForGaza toolkit – packed with ideas to help you take action and raise your voice in your community.
We must speak out. Together.
Download: bit.ly/Gaza_CampaignerKit

Unbelievable levels off profit at Tesco, up x 2.62 since last year. Profiting from a cost of living crisis. You must read the article

Thank you compass I take back everything bad I said about compasses during the Duke of Edinburgh's award scheme

It's time for a maximum wage New data from the High Pay Centre shows that the median FTSE 100 CEO now earns £4.58 million a year – 122 times more than the typical UK worker, with some, like Tesco’s CEO, paid 431 times more than t...

Should your boss be paid 431 times more than you?

There is a simple, evidence-based step to tackle extreme inequality and promote a fairer economy: a 10:1 pay ratio.

Add your voice to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/it...

@equalitytrust.bsky.social @highpaycentre.bsky.social

Bar chart comparing Tesco CEO Ken Murphy's nearly £10 million salary to the average Tesco worker's pay, highlighting CEO pay excess.

Tesco CEO Ken Murphy is paid 431 times more than his workers while he's making hundreds of workers redundant. Is this good for society?
If you think it's not, do something about it: sign our petition with @highpaycentre.bsky.social now: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/it...

Graphic announcing Elon Musk as the world's first half trillionaire (hooray) with a call to tax wealth now, featuring a city skyline and private jets.

Any individual with half a trillion dollars would be bad, but I'm not a fan of this being the one we've got either.
An economic system that does this is insane. Tax wealth now.

Bar chart comparing Tesco CEO Ken Murphy's nearly £10 million salary to the average Tesco worker's pay, highlighting CEO pay excess.

Tesco CEO Ken Murphy is paid 431 times more than his workers while he's making hundreds of workers redundant. Is this good for society?
If you think it's not, do something about it: sign our petition with @highpaycentre.bsky.social now: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/it...

Tax wealth.

🚨 Private affluence and public squalor 🔽🔽🔽

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

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

Scrapping the two-child limit is one of the simplest levers to lift children out of poverty. This long-awaited change could improve the lives of thousands of children around the country.

But replacing it with a tapered system will limit the good that this can do. 1/3

"You have a series of other options that barely get discussed."

Live from #LabourPartyConference this morning, NEF's Deputy Chief Exec, Hannah Peaker, reflects on arbitrary fiscal rules, central bank losses, and the need to move beyond a failed and unchanging economic strategy.

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.

Infographic showing strong support for taxing the super rich from the public, millionaires, experts, and political parties, with only the government opposing.

We're living through crisis after crisis and the super rich aren't just doing fine – they're profiting from them. That's why taxes on wealth are popular with absolutely everyone from millionaires to Nobel Prize winners.
Whose side is Reeves on: us or the billionaires?

Too many people feel that our economy is rigged against them- that no matter how hard they work or what contribution they make, they can't get by.

Our new report examines how this is fuelling the rise of populist politics- and what we can do about it.

🔗https://fairnessfoundation.com/rigged

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Tell your MP to vote against disability cuts I used the @equalitytrust tool to tell my MP why they have to support Make Them Pay! Tell yours now: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-mp-to-make-them-pay

”Make Them Pay demands three key things from our government:

Tax the super-rich
Protect workers, not billionaires
Make polluters pay”

Another nail-on-the-head campaign from @equalitytrust.bsky.social. I’ve written to my MP, will you do the same?

actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Activists in the UK have launched an imaginative new campaign for a maximum wage. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/it... For a deeper dive into the #maximumwage notion: www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Ca...
@highpaycentre.bsky.social @equalitytrust.bsky.social

Line graph showing income growth from 1977 to 2024, with the richest 10% income rising sharply, average income moderately, and poorest 10% barely increasing.

The CEO of Tesco is paid 431 times more than his workers and doubled his pay while announcing job cuts. But that's just one example of the UK's unequal pay – we have some of the most unequal incomes in the developed world.

Make. Them. Pay!

On Saturday, we brought together thousands of people and hundreds of organisations to demand a better future for us all.

Check out our video 👇

And sign up to our mailing list to get involved in what comes next 👉 makethempay.org.uk/get-involved

The NHS is crumbling, schools are underfunded, energy bills keep rising – & billionaires keep getting richer

It’s time to put an end to this catastrophic inequality

It’s time to tax the super-rich & use the money to fund the services we all depend on. It's time to #MakeThemPay

Reporting Inequality, Amplifying Voices in Brent - Equality Trust This blog was written by guest writer Riham Lotfi as part of our place-based organising work and community reporting project in Brent. Becoming a Brent Community Reporter has been more than just a rol...

Here’s a positive piece about my former London borough’s ongoing efforts to galvanise community against the tide of isolation, atomisation and austerity from one of our favourite orgs @equalitytrust.bsky.social

Spreading this as mainstream media does not.

equalitytrust.org.uk/news/blog/re...

🗣️ Join us THIS SATURDAY 20 September to hear from our amazing lineup of speakers - from campaigners, to politicians, to economists, to community leaders and more!

📍Assemble at Portland Place, LDN at 12pm to march to Whitehall for our rally featuring:

Make Them Pay Billionaires have broken Britain. Make them pay to fix it

We need your support to take the fight to the billionaires, polluters and oligarchs!

Pulling off a major demonstration like this costs money and we want to make sure it’s just the beginning of our campaign to Make Them Pay.

Chip in to support us here 👇 makethempay.org.uk/donate

Briefing: The Link Between Inequality and the Far Right - Equality Trust Inequality and the far right are deeply linked. The two have grown together, and both have helped the other.

There's also the point that while economic hardship per se might not drive extremism, economic inequality certainly does, and it seems likely that the extent to which perceived precarity will exceed actual precarity would be heightened by inequality

Do you agree with the Pope that the pay gaps between bosses and their workers have grown too wide?

Then sign our petition calling for maximum 10:1 pay ratios for CEOs and workers: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/it...

New TaxWatch briefing tackles three myths about the Digital... As the US President prepares to fly into the UK with tech bosses in tow, a new briefing from TaxWatch shows that the US government and tech industry representatives have made strongly inaccurate claim...

When Trump flies in next week, getting this tax scrapped will be top of his agenda. There's been a flurry of lobbying claiming the tax is unfair to American companies. But TaxWatch find the reality is very different.
www.taxwatchuk.org/new-taxwatch...