Everything They Tell You About the Economy Is Wrong
Aaron Bastani meets Gary Stevenson
The rise of Reform, why Elon Musk hates immigrants and how the plan is still to make you poorer.
Tag: wealth
Spies, Surveillance and a ‘State Within the State’: How France’s Richest Man Built His Luxury Empire
Olly Haynes
‘The wolf in cashmere.’
Just How Rich Are the Tory Leadership Candidates?
Novara Reporters
Time for a wallet inspection.
The Establishment’s Plan to Deal With Inflation
As inflation rises the establishment has a solution: we all need to get poorer. The alternative is for profits to fall – but that is unacceptable to the powerful. Aaron Bastani on how only unions can save us.
NFTs Are Just the Latest Example of Rich People Loving Ugly Shit
Rachel Connolly
Fabergé eggs, bright yellow cars, monogrammed airplanes, the list goes on.
Why Do Rich and Powerful People Become Abusers? Because They Can
Joana Ramiro
It’s the system, stupid.
Shoplifters of the World, Unite!
Seth Wheeler
Is it time thieves unionised?
Money Can’t Free Britney – But a Strike Could
Eleanor Penny
The pop star inhabits a gilded version of the same cage that traps all wage labourers. She also has the same tools to escape.
Inequality Is Worse Than We Were Told, and Our Tax System Has Been Covering It Up
Grace Blakeley
Matt Hancock Thinks Footballers Should Be Paid Less Because They’re Working Class
Jessy Parker Humphreys
Billionaires Control the Media
Billionaires control the media, and it’s undermining our democracy. The broadcast media amplify the right-wing print media meaning the political agenda is always set by, you guessed it, billionaires.
A Crisis of the Imagination | Aaron Meets Rutger Bregman
“Taxes” was the word on everyone’s lips after the annual Davos conference this year. The man who had dared utter it amongst the financial elite was Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian whose no nonsense savaging of the establishment brought him viral fame. His latest book ‘Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There’ argues […]