Simple thread / presentation here of a recent piece of campaign framing and messaging project I worked on with @cliffordsinger.bsky.social

Former City trader Gary Stevenson on the influence of the super-rich over our politicians #TaxTheSuperRich @garyseconomics.bsky.social

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

This is Trevor Fisher, speaking to @channel4news.bsky.social from Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridgeshire this week. As a palliative care specialist, Trevor’s interview has devastated me. His hospice has just been told Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is withdrawing £800k of funding. 🧵

Energy bills are up 2% from today, after a rise in the energy price cap. Meanwhile CEOs like Chris O’Shea of British Gas continue to earn huge sums, and energy companies continue to give big payouts to shareholders. Is that right when most of us are struggling to pay our bills?

New taxes on big gambling companies - as proposed by @ippr.org - could raise £3 billion a year. That’s enough to scrap the two-child benefit cap, lifting more than 500,000 children out of poverty overnight.

Julia Davies from @patmillsuk.bsky.social takes on Charlie Mullins to call for an increase in Capital Gains Tax in order to fund investment in public services like the NHS #TaxTheSuperRich

Say what you will about them but at least Change UK managed to have a Nando’s dinner first

A teacher on a £40k salary pays more tax than someone who makes the same from selling shares. Why is income from shares taxed less than income from work?

Friendly reminder to the government: other think tanks are available 👋

Kevin Maguire says wealthy people are undertaxed and calls for capital gains tax to be taxed at the same rate we tax income from work 👏 #TaxTheSuperRich

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon #WesStreeting #FreeSpeech www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Billionaire Nick Candy donated £500,000 to Reform in the second quarter of 2025, according to new political party donation figures from the Electoral Commission. In 2005 he moved to Monaco 'for tax reasons'. Are the super-rich undermining democracy?

Marina Purkiss asks why we tax people who work more than people who accumulate wealth #TaxTheSuperRich #WealthTax @marina-purkiss.bsky.social

Matthew Wright calls out the excuses of the super-rich who say they can’t pay more tax 🔥

The average FTSE 100 boss earned £4.58m last year, a 7% rise from the year before. That’s 122 times more than the average UK worker earns each year. Should fat cat CEOs be earning so much money in a cost of living crisis?

The new CEO of Melrose and his predecessor earned almost £59m last year, according to new analysis from @highpaycentre.bsky.social. The average UK nurse would take 1,636 years to earn the same amount. While most of us are struggling to pay our bills, FTSE 100 fat cats are raking it in.

In just the first 6 months of 2025 the big 4 banks have made £16.5 billion in UK income. A windfall tax like the one on oil and gas companies - as proposed by @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social - could raise £5 billion so far this year from those banks, enough to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

The big 4 banks have made £24.1bn in profits in just the first 6 months of 2025. Imposing a similar windfall tax to oil and gas companies on their UK income would have already raised enough to scrap the two-child benefit cap, lifting more than 250,000 children out of poverty overnight.

Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever. ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

Excellent work - and media coverage - by @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social

This @jewishcurrents.bsky.social podcast with @bradlander.bsky.social on how he came to cross-endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is genuinely heartwarming. @peterbeinart.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/brad-landers...

Julia Davies from the Patriotic Millionaires calls out lobby groups for the super-rich and backs a wealth tax on millionaires like her 👏 patmillsuk.bsky.social #taxtherich

Another example where a dodgy number got uncritically cited and re-cited across media and policy discussions. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Former City trader Gary Stevenson on the super-rich threatening to leave the UK because of a wealth tax #taxtherich @garyseconomics.bsky.social

A 2% wealth tax on assets over £10m could raise £8.6bn from the top 40 billionaires on the Sunday Times Rich List alone. That could cover the cost of keeping PIP disability benefits AND scrapping the two-child benefit cap. So why make cuts when you can tax the richest?

A tiny 2% annual wealth tax on assets over £10 million could raise over £5bn from the 15 richest billionaires on the Sunday Times Rich List alone. That’s enough to reverse all of the government’s planned cuts to disability benefits. #DisabilityBenefits #TakingThePIP

A tiny 2% tax on assets over £10 million could raise £4.1 billion from the top 10 richest billionaires in the UK alone. That £4.1 billion could reverse cuts to PIP disability benefits. Why cut benefits for disabled people when you could tax billionaires instead? #TakingThePIP

A tiny 2% wealth tax on assets over £10m could raise £4.1bn from the top 10 billionaires on the Sunday Times Rich List alone. That’s enough to reverse cuts to PIP disability benefit. #TakingThePIP

“A wealth tax that could lift so many out of hardship should be on the table” – Mirror editorial referencing our research

A tiny 2% wealth tax could raise £1.75bn from the top 3 billionaires on the Sunday Times Rich List alone. That’s more than enough to fully reverse winter fuel payment cuts.

New campaign to follow @sharethewealthuk.bsky.social by the amazing @cliffordsinger.bsky.social and Huw Jordan. Exposing the harms and risks of extreme wealth and raising solutions for a fairer and more sustainable economy and society. 👇

"Uniting the progressive and radical left is surely a more plausible step forward than simply disowning the idea of a radical future altogether" Excellent piece by @jemgilbert.bsky.social labourlist.org/2025/05/blue...

269 Israeli citizens who live in the UK call on the British Government to suspend the Trade and Partnership Agreement (TPA) with Israel until it stops using starvation as a weapon of war. To read the full text: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

I have quite a few policies that would cure this. www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...

By being more like him, apparently

This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.

You love to see it

A Dirty War in the US. To assume it will only affect Venezuelans and other foreign nationals is naive.

This is exactly it. The right wing moral panic around "free speech" has been a cynical fraud masking a crude reactionary culture war against dissenting thought. Direct state repression was always the end goal. The last thing these toxic clowns ever wanted was a "free marketplace of ideas".

I wrote a thing about the unreality of the debate on disability benefits, where it comes from and how it affects us. It cost a few spoons to do it, but I think it would have cost more not to. Have a read if you're interested: www.christineberry.net/2025/03/the-...

We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth

Why do all these people have depression we ask as we create systems designed to make their lives as insecure as possible.

gonna make people feel more secure by cutting their money when they're already struggling

Bit harsh - it's only a name.

It’s terrifying to be in Elon Musk’s crosshairs. I’ve spent the last 48 hours dealing with the aftermath of these tweets. Everything he has said about me and Troublemakers is an outright lie. The right to protest is at the heart of American democracy. Join a #TeslaTakedown protest. ✊❤️

Following his Nazi salute, Steve Bannon engages in unalloyed antisemitism, calling progressive US Jews the "#1 enemy...inside the wire" for Israelis, "progressive Jewish billionaires funding all this stuff", disloyal to Israel & MAGA

Have to admin the normalisation of Nazi salutes wasn't something I predicted for 2025 (even with Trump in power)

OMG The Daily Mail has done something good (or, alternatively, the government's position on AI is so bad that they've managed to make the Mail look good)

Extreme wealth is extreme control. Never has this been so clear. Well we don’t have to settle for it. In our letter to Davos leaders, 370+ millionaires & billionaires say we must draw the line. Protect ppl, planet, & democracy: rein in extreme wealth & tax us, the super rich.