Wealth Taxes Are Pointless While Tax Havens Exist
Kojo Koram
Smoke out the foxholes.
Tag: inequality
Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems
Harriet Williamson
Wealthy UK households are particularly reluctant to pay.
US Cities Have Bold Plans to Lower Food Prices. Why Doesn’t Britain?
James Meadway
A desert of ideas.
New Cities, Old Scams
Will NEOM ever be built? Historian Quinn Slobodian explores the hi-tech metropolises of the future with Richard Hames.
Who is the Rewilding Movement’s Green Utopia For?
Maozya Murray
Not most of us, that's for sure.
The Plan Is to Make You Permanently Poorer | Aaron Meets Gary Stevenson
In 2011, while working as a City trader, Gary Stevenson joined the ultra rich with a single bonus cheque. Not long after he was named one of Citibank’s highest performing traders worldwide. Stevenson made millions for his employer by betting on one thing: that the British and American economies would fail to recover from the […]
Why Do Tories Love Crypto?
Peter Howson
Because the winner takes all and the poor get nothing.
How Putin Bribed Russia’s Peasant Army Into a War They Don’t Want
Liza Smirnova & Alexey Sakhnin
Russia’s poor are paying for Ukraine in blood.
A Few New Bus Lanes Won’t ‘Level Up’ the UK – But Upping the Minimum Wage Might
Ell Folan
Median pay is 33% higher in London than in the northeast.
Poor Brits Live Much Shorter Lives. What Can We Do?
Ell Folan
A better-funded NHS is only part of the solution.
The Land-Hoarding Elite Should Be Paying the Rest of Us Rent
Philip Goff
A major land tax could bankroll a universal basic income.
Shoplifters of the World, Unite!
Seth Wheeler
Is it time thieves unionised?
The Tories’ New ‘Community-Powered’ Plan Is a Cynical Power Grab
Bertie Russell, Keir Milburn & Kai Heron
It’s cost-cutting by another name.
The Tories’ Levelling Up Agenda is Just Thatcherism for Towns
Joe Duffy
A leading Tory thinktank is advocating for a regional extension of Thatcherite policies, which would have potentially worrying consequences for the north and the left.
Can Capitalism Solve Its Crises? Interview With Mariana Mazzucato
What can the Apollo Missions teach us about dealing with the major crises of the 21st century? And why are politicians so eager to dwell on caricatures of the public rather than engage in problem-solving – from climate change to housing and education? Aaron Bastani speaks to author and academic Mariana Mazzucato to find out.
Why Has Britain Failed on Covid? Richard Horton
A year after the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic, with Britain enduring more than a 100,000 deaths since, a number of major questions remain unanswered. Why was the response of the UK among the worst in the world? How is it possible that the death toll of countries in Europe and North America […]
The Rich Are Skipping the Vaccine Queue. What Are We Going to Do About It?
James Meadway
Racism Review: Spiked
Munira Mirza is to lead the government’s racism review. Are the Tories trolling anti-racism campaigners? Plus, Joshua Virasami on the police crackdown on BLM protestors, Laura Pidcock on shielding, and Matt Hancock claims Marcus Rashford’s victory as his own.