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This report sets out the nature of poverty in the UK, and evaluates changes under the last Conservative-led Government. It also sets out the scale of action necessary for the current Government to deliver the change it has promised.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation: UK Poverty 2026: The Essential Guide to Understanding “Deep” Poverty in the UK! (27.1.2026)

27/01/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

Disabled people face a higher risk of poverty. This is driven partly by the additional costs associated with disability and ill-health, and partly by the barriers to work that disabled people face. However, the proportion of disabled working-age adults in work increased from 42% in 2010/11 to 53% in 2023/24, while poverty rates remained steady over that period. In the latest data, there were 17 million disabled people in the UK — that is, 1 in 4 people (24%) — and almost 4 in 10 families contained at least 1 person who was disabled. The poverty rate for disabled people was 28%, 8 percentage points higher than the rate for people who were not disabled. Half of all people who were disabled and living in poverty in the latest data had a long-term, limiting mental condition — around 2.4 million people. The poverty rate for this group was 34%, compared with 28% for people with a physical disability.

London: Highest Unemployment Rate in UK! (27.1.2026)

27/01/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

This was the attack on our psychological, intellectual, and emotional freedom (the Tories effectively banned the Red Flag – equating it with the Nazi German swastika and far-right terrorist groups) – whilst on the economic and material front, prices rose by five-times over-night! This has not stopped with the election of Trump – but has got far worse whilst wages stagnate (we were already suffering from so-called Austerity) and even reduce in real terms! Businesses are collapsing, doors are closing, and it looks more and more like the bourgeois capitalists are preparing the UK and EU for a major global conflict as a means to achieve full employment through military conscription, and achieving full industrial output via arms production. Any excess working-class population will be reduced by massive losses on the battlefield. This process will re-set the populations of the US, UK, and EU to the point achieved in 1945 – and prepare the populations for decades of recuperative economic and social growth. It does not matter who the enemy is – just as long as there is an “enemy”. We must all hate the government decreed “enemy” and agree to kill each other. This is the boom and bust economic activity associated with predatory capitalist. Capitalism collapsed in the US in 1929 – with Hitler coming to power in 1933 (Mussolini had already came to power in 1922), with the Spanish Civil War occurring (1936-1939), and then finally WWII (1939-1945) – with America joining in in 1941. All the mechanisms introduced post-1945 supposedly put into place to ensure a perpetual peace – have failed due to a lack of will to maintain and perpetuate them. Once again, the myth that “war” is easier and preferable to a “just peace” has been fully established. We are on the brink people – with the US, Neo-Nazi Ukraine, and Zionist Israel (the war-monger triad) – about to push us over the edge!

Wales: Supporting the Wonderful Work of “Athika Ahmed” – Whilst Exposing and Opposing Hideous UK Media Racism! (23.1.2026)

23/01/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

NHS Voices, an initiative to promote the work of NHS staff and volunteers, praised Ahmed as an “unsung hero” who has contributed for many years: “Athika has been instrumental in many of the Health Board’s children’s plans and now the women’s health plan.

“She is an ambassador for the Love Your Period campaign and supports and educates young Muslim girls when it comes to the stigmatised topic of menstruation and cycles.

“All of her time she volunteers amongst her studies and has gone an unsung hero for many years.”

Misinformation has spread on social media channels including X, Facebook and YouTube across the world claiming she leads health affairs and holds a senior position in the Welsh Government, with some incorrectly claiming she is the Welsh health minister – a role held by Neath Senedd member Jeremy Miles.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Speech at Inauguration Ceremony for First-Stage Modernization Project of Ryongsong Machine Complex

DPRK: Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un – Speech at Inauguration Ceremony for First-Stage Modernization Project of Ryongsong Machine Complex! (23.1.2026)

23/01/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

Today the qualitative transformation of the machine-building industry, a basis for the development of the economy and progress of technology, has posed as a more urgent task. The remarkable trend of development and change, which the Ryongsong Machine Complex with the longest history and tradition started for its technological transformation aspiring after the modernization of the machine-building sector, can be called a stride ahead that instils confidence and encouragement in all of us including the relevant sectors.

But what I regard as a greater success is the following fact.

It is not merely that an enterprise has been modernized, but in the course of this, we have become better aware of our officials’ approach to the Party’s decisions and their present preparedness, and dealt a telling blow to the deeply-ingrained sense of irresponsibility and self-protectionism that hinder our advance and development.

This has reaffirmed which we should focus on and how we should solve them for our present and future work, and as such it is a success more meaningful than any economic achievements.

For Aditya Prakash and Urmi Bhattacharyya, both PhD scholars at the University of Colorado Boulder, the smell of Indian food became the flashpoint for what they say was systemic discrimination against international students — a fight they ultimately won, though at a personal cost.

US: East Indian PhD Students “Win” Racial Discrimination Court Case! (22.1.2026)

22/01/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

Blogger’s Note: For a number of years in the UK – I regularly lived with a North Indian (high-caste) family who had migrated from the

Policemen walking on the street. (Photo: China News Service/ Zhang Xiangyi)

China: PRC Online Harassment Laws – Far More “Liberal” Than UK Labour Equivalent! (22.1.2026)

22/01/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

Although the US-controlled Western internet is banned in China – some Chinese people still manage to access it – or they encounter it whilst travelling to the West. The point for the US is to uproot the collectivity of Chinese culture and Chinese Socialism – and replace it with a capitalistic (bourgeoise) individualism (and bring down the 1949 Revolution from within). By strengthening these laws in the PRC – any attempt by the US to access the Chinese internet hinterland has been severely dented and holed beneath the water-line. Draconian internet laws in the West ensure the continuance of predatory capitalism – whilst in China the equivalent defends and supports Socialism. Either way, an unregulated internet space is considered a danger to the smooth functioning of broader society – as one aspect is considered able to seep into the other and unduly influence it. Whatever the case, I enclose all the details for the general reader to make-up their own minds.

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