Equality Trust

Inequality's corrosive effects reach into every aspect of life. New data from 'The Spirit Level' authors Profs. Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson shows inequality's impact on climate, society, and health. Read now 👇

🤬 When you watch the Budget this year, and are told there is "no money", that we have to face "hard choices", that welfare has to be cut, just remember the below report 🔽 from @equalitytrust.bsky.social and ping it to everyone you know, including your MP...👍 equalitytrust.org.uk/news/ghost-g...

For ten years, we have been campaigning for the Enactment of the socio-economic duty. We’re supporting #1ForEquality and calling for a strong, impactful socio-economic duty. @equalitytrust.bsky.social @justfairuk.bsky.social @thriveteesside.bsky.social #DoYourDutyForEquality

As part of the #1forEquality fortnight of action urging effective activation of the socio-economic duty, we collaborated with artist Rita Kappia and community partners bringing lived experience insights from various parts of England to take these small but mighty dolls to parliament this week 💪

Our (much appreciated!) trustee Gerry Boyle spent 6 years helping guide the Equality Trust through Covid-19, four Prime Ministers, and a lot of change. What did he learn? https://equalitytrust.org.uk/news/blog/board-blog-my-experience-as-a-trustee/

We all know billionaires are gaining too much power over our democracy. People often think stopping it would make elections costly for the public but NOTHING can cost us more in consequences than the way we're doing it now. Please consider signing this @equalitytrust.bsky.social petition

Economic inequity hasn’t occurred because the wealthy are any smarter than everyone else, or working any harder. It was caused by a series of policy decisions that have steadily made life easier for the wealthy, and harder for most working people.

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-...

“Council tax is a very regressive and unfair system. It’s made regional wealth inequality even worse. It essentially punishes poorer areas for being poor.” Our very own Joe Wright in The i news. Want to do something about it? 1/2 👉 inews.co.uk/news/292-are...

We've released new polling this morning on wealth creation which sends a clear message to policymakers: Back Britain’s genuine wealth creators - and take on the extractive practices draining our communities. 🔗Read more: fairnessfoundation.com/making-or-ta...

"The British public are strongly opposed to business models that are seen as extractive. Particular anger is reserved for business models that are understood to exploit consumers, workers or society more broadly, including those that avoid tax or rip off consumers."

Cuts to overseas aid by the UK are set to go further and faster than those made by the Trump administration in the US, as Sir Keir Starmer’s government wrestles with funding pressures www.ft.com/content/ad52...

Almost two thirds of people in the UK have cut back on essentials due to the cost of living. The crisis isn’t over — it’s getting worse. Today we're launching the Cost of Living Action campaign, calling on the Government to end this crisis and ensure it never happens again.

“What would it be like if everyone had what they needed to live a good life, and how would that be different from how things are now?” This is the question @equalitytrust.bsky.social Community Economists & @cts4change.bsky.social are asking to create a common vision for our future: buff.ly/oCifZjp

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Talk of building a good society is often met with the charge of utopianism. But this is wrong, argues @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social. The blueprint for a fairer society lies in front of us – but it requires moving away from “trickle-down” economics #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Will they be pretty? Will they be rich? Maybe they'll just be rich. But which billionaire will be your Valentine today?

Billionaires are organising across the world, from South African billionaires trying to win control of political parties to American oligarchs undermining democracy wherever they can. The only way to stand up to them is for workers to organise back #heartunions

If we want to build a more equal society, unions must be a key part of that. We know that more unionised societies are more equal, workers are more protected, and communities stronger - but that's far from the only reason to #heartunions this week

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/

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/

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 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

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...

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/

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 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

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 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

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/

❌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'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

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

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

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

"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?

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.

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/