Today I talk to Chris Turner, Executive Director of B Lab UK about how certified B Corporations could help reduce inequality, lower levels of poverty, create a healthier environment, build stronger communities, and generate more high quality jobs with dignity and purpose. This is the first episode in our new series: Profit for Purpose which is about how we can redefine success in business & build a more inclusive & sustainable economy and at the same time make a positive impact on reducing inequality.

Today we are talking about how we all pay to shop at ASDA, even if you don’t, plus an update on some events coming up but mainly about how wealth is not trickling down but gushing upwards, we hear again from The Equality Trust.

We talk to Paolo, founder & CEO of Bighous (bighous.co.uk), a social impact business, which buys, renovates and makes properties available to charities, so they can put a roof over the heads of the most vulnerable and destitute in our society with a high standard of living conditions.

Is there an answer to affordable housing (yes), Why holidays mean hunger for many school children, what possessed the government not to use funds from the EU to help those in poverty & how the 2 child benefit policy is making matters worse. Satya, Leah and Tom talk about these topics and how we could fix it on the Weekly Wake Up podcast. www.realagenda.org

Professor Francesca Klug, a human rights academic and activist, talks about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, why Universal is the key word & how all humans have certain entitlements solely because we are humans, not just citizens. The UDHR provides a basis for good government and a guideline to conduct our lives by. It is time we took it seriously in order to reduce extreme inequality & build a better society.

Will millennials ever be able to own a home? Why is solving poverty not the number one priority for the new govt? How does a UK based video games developer pay no corporation tax & claim £millions in tax relief while having £billions in worldwide sales? That’s all on latest Weekly Wake Up, from The Real Agenda Network, podcasts for political change with your hosts Tom, Oliver & Eddie.

In a week when 0.2% of the electorate, selected a new Prime Minister, we look beyond the rhetoric, appreciate the optimism, but wonder where is the priority for the 14 million people in poverty who suffer everyday while these political games are played. That’s all on the Weekly Wake Up that sets off the alarm bells on what is really happening, with all male hosts this week only: Tom, Hugh Oliver and Eddie.

Simon Reid-Henry, author & academic, talks to Tom Burgess about how our diminishing democracy is fueling inequalities and how with the rise of image based politicians with answers to everything but solutions to not very much, are destroying our democracy. Politicians are not listening, there is not the political will and there is a crisis of political vision. But this can be fixed especially by updating the voting system, it is up to us to make it happen

Talking about knife crime, how social attitudes to welfare benefits have changed & how an innovative business is helping the homeless plus the promise that in-work poverty could be solved in five years. It's all in The Real Agenda, the podcast for political change with Tom Burgess, Satya Kartara, Hugh Clark, Oliver Williams.

”Change our behaviours or die” warns Richard Murphy co-founder of Tax Justice Network, the Green New Deal Group and Fair Tax Mark as well as author of The Joy of Tax. In our latest Channleger for Change  series, Richard talks about what’s wrong with the tax system and what we could do to make it fairer, plus unless we act on the climate emergency, there will be no point in doing anything.