Does your salary mean you’re rich? What makes you upper, middle or working class? We asked the British public
In exclusive polling for the New Statesman by Redfield & Wilton Strategies, voters tell us what they think are high…
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The inheritance gap isn’t a secret – we all know millennial homeowners had help
Everyone under 40 can see their friends on the property ladder had financial support from rich relatives. Why pretend otherwise?
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“It’s constant anxiety”: inside the crisis in child social care
The murders of Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes revealed shocking shortcomings in the UK’s social care system. What is being…
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How political failures led to the Grenfell Tower fire
Peter Apps’s book, Show Me the Bodies, forensically uncovers the truth about the disaster that killed 72 people in 2017.
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Could the rich stop climate change?
The clean energy transition will not come cheap, but billionaires could do much more to finance this change.
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A message to the new health secretary: don’t scrap the health inequalities review
Steve Barclay should revive the nixed plans on tackling thealth disparities brought to light by the pandemic.
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As Britain faces a hard winter, the 1 per cent will get richer
That is Kwasi Kwarteng’s logic.
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British voters move left on the economy, as Liz Truss drags it to the right
Enthusiasm is growing in Britain for higher taxes and spending on public services, and redistribution of wealth.
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UK housing has never been more unaffordable
The average house price is equivalent to more than nine years of average earnings.
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Liz Truss thinks we have to choose between inequality and growth – but it doesn’t have to be this way
Other countries do a better job of both redistribution and growth.
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The UK is the second-most unequal G7 country
Liz Truss says there has been too much focus on redistribution but the US is the only major Western economy…
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England’s regions are not equally insulated for the coming winter
Exorbitant energy prices mean that a well-insulated house is more valuable than ever.
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How the super-rich live
Wandering through the haunts favoured by London’s wealthiest residents reveals the gilded side of the capital hiding in plain sight.
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Rishi Sunak boasted of taking money from “deprived urban areas” to help wealthy towns
A leaked video shows the former chancellor saying that Labour “shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas” and that…
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The Policy Ask with Zoë Billingham: “Make reducing regional inequality a legal requirement”
The director of think tank IPPR North on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, energy company profits and the Levelling Up bill.
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How the gap between public and private sector pay has grown
A proposal by Liz Truss would have further depressed public sector wages that have fallen in real terms since 2010.
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Should class snobbery be banned?
Psychologists are urging UK government ministers to outlaw classist discrimination, the New Statesman reveals.
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UK wages have fallen behind European rivals
By 2018, UK incomes were just 9 per cent higher than in 2005, compared with 40 per cent in Germany…
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The dire effects of tech-fuelled inequality can be seen in schools across the nation
A new report reveals how austerity and lockdown have had a predictably appalling impact on vulnerable children.
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The threat of another Grenfell Tower disaster endures
Five years after the fire, less than 1 per cent of buildings have had their dangerous cladding removed.
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