Who’s afraid of Gary Stevenson?
The left has finally found an eloquent, honest and credible campaigner against inequality – we should champion him.
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Would a wealth tax work?
It wouldn’t be straightforward, but such a measure is possible.
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Why celebrity surrogacy announcements provoke such anger
Lily Collins has become a lightning rod for outrage and dismay in the fraught territory of fertility.
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Britain’s wealthiest must improve their philanthropic record
The top 10 per cent of earners donate half as much, as a share of their income, as the poorest…
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Abolishing non-dom status should just be the beginning
It’s not true that there’s no money left. Politicians are simply refusing to tax extreme wealth properly.
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Rishi Sunak is not serious
Cutting inheritance tax is a sure way to perpetuate wealth inequality and hinder economic growth.
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The election will be a fight between work and wealth
A significant chunk of the country is insulated from the pain of rate hikes: those who own property outright.
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Tax wealth and reward work
We must end the absurdity of nurses and teachers paying more of their income in tax than hedge fund traders.
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Why are Brits on £180k so sad?
A new study of the wealthy reveals they feel just as precarious as the rest of us.
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How Deep England fell out of love with Boris Johnson
The disgraced former prime minister is not welcome among his new neighbours in rural Oxfordshire.
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How Succession made fools of us all
The brutal drama told us who the ultra-rich were again and again. We chose not to listen.
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Our new financial masters
How asset managers work in the shadows – and shape all of our lives.
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“The people who have the power lack diversity”
We need a wider cohort of policymakers to make society fairer, says Felicia Odamtten, founder of the Black Economists Network.
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Elon Musk was never really the world’s richest man
The perverse maths of wealth meant the Tesla owner lost billions by selling shares that made up his net worth.
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Sixty per cent of Brits earning £80,000-£100,000 say they’re “about average”
Highly paid people tend to see themselves as “normal” on the income scale – and “worse off” than their social…
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We deserve better than the Metaverse
Our culture is increasingly consumed by the whims of tech billionaires funnelling absurd amounts of cash into projects no one…
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Sasha Swire’s Diary: Rishi Rich in No 10, lords-in-waiting, and a case of the green-eyed monster
It’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than to get a seat in the…
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What people miss when they criticise inheritance tax
Only 4 per cent of estates end up having to pay it.
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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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Wealth in the UK has surged but wealth taxes have not
Since 1980 wealth in the UK has risen by 174 per cent but wealth tax revenue has risen by just…
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