If McSweeney thinks this kind of Whatsapp briefing can save him or Starmer rather than enrage even more MPs who will resent being accused of being unpatriotic then the current Labour leadership will have lost its grip on reality in ways that mean it needs to go

No, what's Beyond Belief is that there’s now a new cap on IHT liabilities for former non-doms, despite Labour pledging a residence-based system grounded in, y’know, an observable reality. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Let’s make Elon Musk the world’s richest man this Christmas! - Sign the Petition! (It's not what you think, a petition from @taxjustice.net) c.org/Zg78NDtCQW via @ukchange.bsky.social

Rory Stewart apology to Gary Stevenson starts at about 17mins in.

About 56,000 people control three times as much wealth as HALF OF HUMANITY. Barely enough to fill an average night of the Eras tour. Nothing to see here! www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

Global inequality has hit a new extreme. So how much wealth is too much?🤔 The extreme poverty line is used to define unacceptable levels of poverty. What if we also created an extreme wealth line? @patmillsuk.bsky.social 1/2

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If this doesn't serve as a wake up call ahead of the UK's elections bill then I don't know what can shift the dial.

So pleased @theguardian.com's editorial board agrees with our expert committee that it makes a lot of sense to establish an International Panel on Inequality. We are in an inequality emergency, and there are ways to lessen it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thinking about the budget after reading that observer piece

I think this is a brilliant work from the Equality Trust, with a smorgasbord of very good recommendations.

Will Snell of @fairness.bsky.social assesses the UK Budget: “Failing to increase capital gains tax rates and leaving the top tax rate on dividends untouched meant that the very rich were let off the hook”. See more in our latest post #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/3FnrGNZ

👏 Thank you to everyone who took action and emailed your MPs to say NO to new tax breaks for big tech.👇

We were honoured to have economist Jayati Ghosh join a high-level discussion we hosted with OxfamSA at the G20 in Johannesburg ast week. In this clip, Jayati explains why a global minimum tax on the super-rich is essential to tackling rising wealth inequality and wealth extremism. #TaxTheSuperRich

one more sleep

Last week the Senedd showed what grown-up politics looks like - with a respectful, 2hr debate on taxing extreme wealth and what that can mean for Wales. It’s now time Westminster steps up to this long-overdue conversation, whatever tomorrow’s Budget brings.

This graph is your friend 📈 Look for it at the budget 🧰 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/672156...

Richest man in the world

Ramping up public investment is the best route out of the UK’s productivity crisis. Our new report finds increasing public investment by an additional 2% of GDP per year would kickstart growth, raise average earnings, and strengthen the public finances. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

I’m going to open a little campsite and tuck shop just outside my mum’s home town in the Drôme valley and, as a charming Brit, make loads of ££ off the bizarre number of Dutch people who chose holiday there.

"Instead, they [MPs] should be able to represent the interests of their constituents by delivering on their core roles of parliamentary scrutiny, debate, policy making and legislating." - hell yes

On the eve of the G20 Summit in South Africa, Patriotic Millionaires International, with Oxfam SA, hosted a powerful panel on A Fairer Future, calling for bold action to #TaxTheSuperRich. Leaders, academics, and millionaires sharing one message: tax extreme wealth for people and planet #G20ZA

Here's a smashing round-up of yesterday's mamouth petition hand-in

Just another (soggy) Wednesday at work

Christmas is approaching

ARRRRGH this country. Grasp the mildly inconvenient nettle!

Our member Julia Davies chatted to LBC about exit taxes and why, if you make your money here, you should pay your taxes here. #TaxTheSuperRich

Why a group of wealthy Brits have urged Reeves to introduce a wealth tax

Yay! A fresh round of baseless scaremongering. Now, the noisy minority of greedy super-rich are telling us settling up charges will mean no one will invest or start business in the UK. Just like they don't elsewhere with exit taxes like **checks notes** USA, France, Germany, Canada, Australia...

Lloyd Hatton MP: “It really is very simple. We should be able to assess what tax is owed and then collect it. HMRC must get a firmer grip on the scale of wealth that is currently stashed away offshore... it’s clear we need to bolster its ability to spot and stop tax dodging.”

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

17 days to go

or CHAOS with tax the super rich

Away Day vibes

www.authoritarian-stack.info this is both *beautiful*, v informative and slightly terrifying work from Autonomy Institute

On guising & the merits of carving neeps 🫜 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

AND, the PRIVATISATION BY STEALTH not talked about enough: Increasing failure to adopt roads, green spaces and drainage on new estates – leaving people paying double to private companies and through council tax for maintenance of the public realm. #Privatisation #Fleecehold #PropertyManagement

Je dis au bloc « central » : si vous pensez que la gauche et les écologistes peuvent défendre un budget régressif, vous vous trompez ! Si vous ne l’entendez pas et que vous ne le comprenez pas, à la fin, il n’y aura pas de budget et vous repartirez aux élections.

It's really very hard to avoid feeling like I've failed my kids when I watch them holding the phone like a lump of coal / shotput / blowfish whenever there's an actual phone call.

🏠 A mansion tax? It's in the right postcode but its the wrong address. It wouldn't raise enough, it wouldn't rebalance wealth vs. work AND its messier and less targeted than a 2% wealth tax. Caitlin Boswell, from our team, broke it down on BBC Politics Live this morning.

It's not a question of resources. It's a question of political will.

The wealth gap between rich and poor increased by over 50% from 2011 to 2021, to over £11.5 trillion. Find out more about the impacts on our society, economy, democracy and environment, and what we can do about it, from our updated Wealth Gap Risk Register.

the.organise.network/campaigns/ne... Please sign this open letter if you think taxes on extreme wealth, not work, should be our Chancellor’s first stop in November.

The gender wealth gap sits at 21% - much higher than the wage gap - so why don't we hear anything about it? @ignaciapinto.bsky.social of @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social explains why taxing wealth is a feminist issue in a guest blog. neweconomics.org/2025/09/taxi...

'Duane Reade bag with the hAndLes tied' is *the* line of the year

‘I think we’ve got to go for it’ Me 🤝 Labour members 🤝 most people

“I think we’ve got to go for it” 💬 A Labour member spoke with us about why he backs taxing the super-rich and why he thought it was the right move for the UK. Throwback to our discussions with audience members at our Labour Party Conference fringe event.

It’s this simple

remember when god tier telly shows were *minimum* 18 eps per season. bring that back.

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