#FollowTheMoney 🧵 84/n Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis show

“People want to feel like the country is turning a corner. That means taking action on record levels of deep poverty so everyone can afford the essentials. It means making people feel supported rather than being one redundancy or bout of ill health away from failing to make ends meet.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/27/very-deep-poverty-uk-record-numbers-joseph-rowntree-foundation-analysis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 84/n Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis show

“People want to feel like the country is turning a corner. That means taking action on record levels of deep poverty so everyone can afford the essentials. It means making people feel supported rather than being one redundancy or bout of ill health away from failing to make ends meet.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/27/very-deep-poverty-uk-record-numbers-joseph-rowntree-foundation-analysis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 83/n Linking nicely to #GreenParty ad i shared yesterday (⬆️ do watch! it’s great!) - here an interesting discussion on Novara Media on the relationship between low growth (and ordinary people not benefiting from growth even where there is some) and the decline of liberal democracy. A lot to unpack and do agree with discussants that more complex, but good to centre economic stagnation and rising inequality in decline of political trust and #Democracy

https://youtu.be/frhDxiBZjbE

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 83/n Linking nicely to #GreenParty ad i shared yesterday (⬆️ do watch! it’s great!) - here an interesting discussion on Novara Media on the relationship between low growth (and ordinary people not benefiting from growth even where there is some) and the decline of liberal democracy. A lot to unpack and do agree with discussants that more complex, but good to centre economic stagnation and rising inequality in decline of political trust and #Democracy

https://youtu.be/frhDxiBZjbE

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 82/n In the UK, the best thing you can do to try and mobilise against rising inequality is to join the Green Party!

This new campaign video by #ZackPolanski is brilliant. This too, reaonated deeply - this is me right now. We need to find ways to collectively stop running and pause!

https://youtu.be/bF_a_w7Dozo?si=ppSHwPEic6Zy4qH2

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 81/n From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver

This is an incredible, moving personal perspective on this system that we are all entangled in, that shifts money to the few away from the rest of us at accelerating rate.

Having also experienced #Redundancy not too long ago and still very much in the doldrums of short term, part time jobs, this resonates deeply. So many are going through this, we need to help each other. #Precarity

https://open.substack.com/pub/stevescherer/p/my-journey-from-foreign-correspondent?r=4ug8&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay

As Peter Cooke said, we have learned from our mistakes & can repeat them exactly.

#exploitaion #marketing #harm #FollowTheMoney

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-11/today-in-history-january-11-smoking-cancer-link-/106185276?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

As Peter Cooke said, we have learned from our mistakes & can repeat them exactly.

#exploitaion #marketing #harm #FollowTheMoney

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-11/today-in-history-january-11-smoking-cancer-link-/106185276?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

#FollowTheMoney An ongoing 🧵 I started a while back and add to every now and then. Inspired by this initial piece by #GaryStevensonon, it is rag bag of somewhat eclectic thoughts and pieces, on how money flows towards the rich and away from others, and how this shapes everything. Today at 80 posts - let’s see how long it will get! https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112047945347154458

#Budget #UKPolitics This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.

“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”

This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a #TragedyOftheNonCommons (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)

#FollowTheMoney

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/banker-budget-mega-rich-traders-jeremy-hunt?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#FollowTheMoney 🧵80/n #ZohranMamdani

3. Lastly, I am also super excited that the son of an anthropologist is now Mayor of New York! Of course it’s wrong to claim Mamdani for anthropology- he is own person, and his mother is brilliant too - but I want to just do this for now. Anthropology, as David Graeber said, is about possibilities, - this is what Mamdani is showing us all now, too. I see so much of anthro in what he is doing I will shamelessly share this 🧵

https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112144067417740154

#FollowTheMoney 🧵79/n

2. Melinda Cooper’s brilliant #Counterrevolution (posts 74-76 ⬆️ ) describes how #NewYork was the place that the neoliberal counterrevolution began - where fiscal policies redistributing money towards the rich, assets and property (Trump’s world!) were first tested and then taken elsewhere.

So exciting that New York is now the place where a different, socialist politicsl economy is emerging! Go New York! Let this spread everywhere from here, too!

#ZohranMamdani

#FollowTheMoney 🧵78/n #ZohranMamdani’s win has to be logged here - for three reasons!

1. This 🧵 all about the #oligarchy, the way it structures our world, and Mamdani taking it on directly, talking about it, making us all #SEEtheoligarchy is just 🔥

Mamdani condemns ‘oligarchy and authoritarianism’ in speech directly talking to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/nov/04/nyc-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-results-latest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#FollowTheMoney An ongoing 🧵 I started a while back and add to every now and then. Inspired by this initial piece by #GaryStevensonon, it is rag bag of somewhat eclectic thoughts and pieces, on how money flows towards the rich and away from others, and how this shapes everything. Today at 80 posts - let’s see how long it will get! https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112047945347154458

#FollowTheMoney 🧵80/n #ZohranMamdani

3. Lastly, I am also super excited that the son of an anthropologist is now Mayor of New York! Of course it’s wrong to claim Mamdani for anthropology- he is own person, and his mother is brilliant too - but I want to just do this for now. Anthropology, as David Graeber said, is about possibilities, - this is what Mamdani is showing us all now, too. I see so much of anthro in what he is doing I will shamelessly share this 🧵

https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112144067417740154

#FollowTheMoney 🧵79/n

2. Melinda Cooper’s brilliant #Counterrevolution (posts 74-76 ⬆️ ) describes how #NewYork was the place that the neoliberal counterrevolution began - where fiscal policies redistributing money towards the rich, assets and property (Trump’s world!) were first tested and then taken elsewhere.

So exciting that New York is now the place where a different, socialist politicsl economy is emerging! Go New York! Let this spread everywhere from here, too!

#ZohranMamdani

#FollowTheMoney 🧵78/n #ZohranMamdani’s win has to be logged here - for three reasons!

1. This 🧵 all about the #oligarchy, the way it structures our world, and Mamdani taking it on directly, talking about it, making us all #SEEtheoligarchy is just 🔥

Mamdani condemns ‘oligarchy and authoritarianism’ in speech directly talking to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/nov/04/nyc-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-results-latest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#FollowTheMoney requested access to an unredacted version of #X’s first #DigitalServicesAct risk report from the @EUCommission – a request that the EU executive denied.

After the request, the Commission updated its internal rules to generally presume such reports to be confidential.

The European #Ombudsman found this to be “unreasonable” and that it amounted to maladministration.

https://www.ftm.eu/articles/eu-watchdog-slams-commission-over-x?share=1mY%2B4H%2ByW2F6Ad9Pgd%2BTdoFEAsvMSz869pZOp7URYWEzHEAyIZHyhccNPphfWlM%3D