More evidence, should you need it, that in the last 50 years capitalism has disproportionately advantaged the top 10% of earners (and we also know that within that top 10% there is a further division between the richest - the top 1% - and the rest).

In the last 50 years the reductions in inequality of the post-1945 period have been reversed confirming that the governance & regulation of capitalism after 1945 to make it more generally beneficial was a blip not a trend

#capitalism #economics

Chart: Middle & lower earners struggle to keep up. Real disposable income in advanced economies by income position (1985 = 100) <p>top 10% has risen over period to over 160; for the bottom 20-40% & the median earner, earning have risen to around 135-139; for the bottom 10%, from 100-120." loading=“lazy”></p><footer>- <a href=ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us, https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/113938704626685539

My Dad has been radicalised by the far right on YouTube, and now he’s started using emojis in messages.

Last weekend I was discovering the joy of listening to Leeds-based band English Teacher, whose singer Lily Fontaine hails from Colne, near Pendle, in Lancashire.

This weekend I’ve been rediscovering the joy of listening to Leeds-based band Chumbawamba, whose singer Alice Nutter hails from Burnley, near Pendle, in Lancashire.

One of English Teacher’s songs “The World’s Biggest Paving Slab” references the Pendle Witch Trials.

Alice Nutter, of course, was the name of one of the Pendle witches, and Chumbawamba’s Alice Nutter went on to write a play about the Witch Trials.

Big kid always leaves his pizza crusts and asked me to make a stuffed crust instead.

I forgot all about, so just folded over the edge at the last moment before it went in the oven. It’s delicious, but looks and feels more like a pie, and no. 1 son didn’t like it at all!

Auto-generated description: A cheesy pizza with melted cheese is partially sliced on a wooden board.

Ten year old old just showed me how to do something on my phone.

Talking of Chumbawamba has sent me down another memory hole today.

I have some hazy memories of following another anti-fascist band, Blaggers ITA, around in the early ’90s. I seem to remember playing football with them in Manchester at one time. That was after the pub closed on a hot Sunday afternoon to kill some time before their gig in the evening.

In 1988, the great American novelist Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter to the human race of 2088.

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It’s been a Chumbawamba sort of a day. Anarchy, A Singsong and a Scrap, and A Night of Punk Nostalgia.

I thought micro.blog was down all morning, but just realised it was something to do with my DNS service.

This morning’s walk.

The view from the top of the new hills is a bunch of half-built skyscrapers and cranes.

The entrance from the park to the new wetlands (designed to prevent flooding) was flooded.

Two yellow bulldozers work on a dirt hill behind a metal fence under a clear blue sky.A person in a high-visibility jacket sits on a bench near a construction site with cranes in the background.A large puddle stretches across a muddy path near a field with two metal goals and surrounded by hedges.A small pond with stepping stones reflects the clear blue sky, surrounded by a dry, grassy landscape.A serene landscape features a small stream reflecting the bright sun, surrounded by trees and grassy areas.