Inequality, The Spirit Level and more…
- The Good SocietyKate’s new book published by Bodley Head on 05 Feb 2026
- The Spirit Level at 15Click here for The Equality Trust website to read a summary, download the full report, technical appendix and PowerPoint slidedeck
- Our landmark book revealed the cost of inequality. Fifteen years later, things have only got worsehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/23/landmark-book-spirit-level-cost-inequality-fifteen-years-later-worse-labour Labour should be emboldened by the popularity of policies aimed at breaking down inequality: now’s the time for ambition
- A call to action in the Big IssueTo tackle child poverty, we need action as bold as Labour creating the welfare state in 1945
- Why the world cannot afford the richCommentary, Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00723-3
@johnmcdonnellMP @vicderbyshire was out there batting for starmer too …. Oddly ….. she made it seem as if it was a Tory problem 😂
@BBCNewsnight
John McDonnell, “What we’ve seen is No 10 overriding, interfering, pressurising civil servants, we can’t go on like this”
“Keir Starmer’s office controls everything, he wasn’t listening to any of us”
“As soon as Mandelson’s name came into the frame I told Keir Starmer if you
The media sold Keir Starmer as ‘forensic, decent & capable’ PM
He was NEVER any of those, as we made clear yrs ago:
“Starmer is a LIAR in charge of a brutal, authoritarian, inhuman political machine, but you simply wouldn’t know about that if you read or watched British media”
🇧🇷🇨🇺🚨 BREAKING: Lula just said what the world has been thinking. “Stop this damned blockade on Cuba and let the Cuban people live their lives.” Cuba has problems. But they are Cuba’s problems. Not Lula’s. Not Trump’s. Not the empire’s.
The US has punished Cuba for decades.