Feature: Spies, Surveillance and a ‘State Within the State’: How France’s Richest Man Built His Luxury Empire
Olly Haynes
France’s wealthiest tycoon has a history of scandal and direct access to Macron’s neoliberal elite.
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Report: Just How Rich Are the Tory Leadership Candidates?
Novara Reporters
From Russian “blood money” to untraceable investments, we look at how much these 11 Tories are worth.
Explainers: 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.
Opinion: NFTs Are Just the Latest Example of Rich People Loving Ugly Shit
Rachel Connolly
Rich people have always bought ugly stuff, writes Rachel Connolly - it's what you do when you have more money than sense. The fact that normal people do too is the real mystery.
Opinion: Why Do Rich and Powerful People Become Abusers? Because They Can
Joana Ramiro
Upon Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction, many pundits aired their shock and disbelief that a well-known ‘socialite’ had ever become involved in the sexual abuse of teenagers. This misses the point, argues Joana Ramiro: wealth and power is precisely what helps wealthy and powerful abusers abuse.
Opinion: Shoplifters of the World, Unite!
Seth Wheeler
Ever stolen Christmas presents for your family? You stand in a long tradition of working-class pilfering – but proletarian shopping could be stronger with collective organisation, argues Seth Wheeler.
Long Read: 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, writes Eleanor Penny.
Opinion: Inequality Is Worse Than We Were Told, and Our Tax System Has Been Covering It Up
Grace Blakeley
For a long time British voters have felt as though inequality is too high, but rightwingers have had a standard reply to the general public: you’re wrong. In fact, it was the figures that were wrong and peoples’ instincts that were right, writes Grace Blakeley.
Opinion: Matt Hancock Thinks Footballers Should Be Paid Less Because They’re Working Class
Jessy Parker Humphreys
Why has the government suggested footballers be paid less, while Premier League directors - not to mention billionaires like Richard Branson - are allowed to keep their enormous incomes? Because unlike other top earners, the vast majority didn't go to private school, writes sports journalist Jessy Parker Humphreys.
The Bastani Factor: 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.
The Bastani Factor: 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 […]