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We have become used to hearing the phrase ‘levelling-up’ – in particular in the context of the government’s levelling-up agenda. This agenda recognises that many in the UK have been […]

The most widely quoted measure of poverty is relative poverty which is the defined as ‘having an income of less than 60% of the median income’ (if you imagine everyone […]

Many others have called for a progressive alliance; this article explains why we support that call. Anyone in the UK with generally progressive views (i.e. anyone from the moderate left […]

Does the UK care about the virus? At the time of writing (4/2/2021) the UK has seen 109,000 deaths from COVID-19. In terms of death rate per million inhabitants, this […]

On 2 February 2021, Mark E Thomas, Jeremy Stanyard and Owen Carlstrand discussed their work in The 99% Organisation with the members of the PA Association.   Mark introduced the […]

This article was contributed by a 99% member.   ”Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people and have always in view not only the present but also […]

Action Against Impoverishment This is an approximate transcript of the presentation Mark E Thomas gave to the London Quakers on 16 January 2021. We aim to have a video soon. […]

At the time of writing (14/1/21), out of 152 countries listed on the Statista COVID-19 database, the UK has the seventh highest death toll per head of population. The true […]

  Politicians around the world have condemned the storming of the Capitol building in Washington by far-right terrorists, and there has been an implicit sense of relief that it was […]

The year 2020 was dreadful for many people in almost every country. In the UK, over 70,000 families have lost loved ones to COVID-19 – one of the worst death […]