👉 Stories about economic change are never neutral. They make politics. In my new article in Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, I show how narratives about economic disruption become a source of legitimacy: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Brilliant @cmmonwealth.bsky.social thread on the public wealth give-away that was 'right to buy'. Love the idea of right to buy back. 🔥 #publicwealth

"Instead of tinkering around the edges, with a wealth tax the government could win the argument on fairness – and finally start to reverse toxic wealth inequality in this country." Your weekend reading, from our Executive Director @faizashaheen.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I've been slow to share this because in all honesty I was a little bit hungover on Saturday, but I wrote the New Statesman's weekend essay this week, on why England's ex-mining areas have become especially disenchanted with politics: www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

Listen to @ignaciapinto.bsky.social, our Senior Research and Policy Officer and author of the report, explain why we must tackle wealth inequality - and the options the Government has for taxing wealth.

Immigrants aren’t the problem. Othering immigrants is a deliberate strategy to encourage people to hate each other rather than examine what severe wealth inequality is doing to our societies. Image from #SolidaritywithLA poster at US embassy bus stop in London.

👉 Our new @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @lseinequalities.bsky.social report finds that foregrounding the unfair political influence that extreme wealth can buy in narratives about wealth inequality increases support for higher taxes on the rich. With @michaelvaughan.bsky.social and Annalena Oppel.

Great @lseinequalities.bsky.social post from @sachahilhorst.bsky.social & Insa Koch on the new class politics: “the political & analytical challenge ahead lies in recuperating the radical potential implied in corruption talk for a solidarity across ethnic, racial, gendered and generational lines.”

We've written to Pat McFadden welcoming the review of the ONS but also to express our concerns about plans to cut back work in areas like wellbeing & living standards to focus on core economic stats. Data on employment and growth are important but there's more to our economy - including unpaid care.

Let's talk about tax! After 2 weeks of events organised by member states, NGOs, UN agencies & other multilateral institutions, listening to different voices from all over the world, WBG's Viktoria Szczypior shares her key take away from the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

New blog from Professor Susan Himmelweit and our Senior Research and Policy Officer, @ignaciapinto.bsky.social “Tax isn’t a burden—it’s how we build a fairer, more caring society.” Why we need progressive reform to tackle gender inequality. Read more: www.tax.org.uk/guest-blog-t...

🚨The chancellor's spring statement has reinforced the austerity doom loop the country is stuck in. Only by replacing the fiscal rules can we get out of this cycle of austerity and economic decline.

🙄 What does the persistent lack of good gender-sensitive data say about how much women matter in policy? 👉 Agnotology lit talks about ignorance as the effect of decisions made to take knowledge in some directions *and not in others*. We count what matters, right?

📣 Great opportunity to work with an organisation that is fleet, informed, puts out loads of amazing content and has a team you'd be mad not to want to work with. Looking forward to meeting the eventual role holder...

📣 Are you presenting a paper at the Social Policy Association conference this year? Does it have a tax dimension? If so - join our symposium! More detail here: www.linkedin.com/posts/sarah-...

📣 Out today - a new article with @michaelvaughan.bsky.social on visual representations of wealth inequality, by UK news media and civil society orgs journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🧵Happy to announce our Special Issue on the #Political and #Transformative Uses of #Time is out! Coedited by me & E Colin Ruggero. Many thanks to all our contributors and to @timeandsociety.bsky.social. Hope it will be useful for those thinking time politically. journals.sagepub.com/toc/tasa/34/1

📣 Why should extreme wealth be at the heart of conversations about poverty, and social and economic justice? Join me & @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, Armine Ishkanian, @jrf-uk.bsky.social Frank Soodeen & Rajiv Prabhakar to discuss ideas in my new book. Sign up here: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

"Child poverty cannot be separated from women's poverty." Thank you @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social. We won't #EndChildPoverty if we don't also #EndWomen'sPoverty.

🔥 Seeing these two chat about inequality is a *total* treat. And there's a whole mini-series! 🤓 🙏

Great thread from the consistently brilliant @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social here drawing out the gendered nature of housing poverty: 52% of housing support claimants with a shortfall between rent and housing benefit are single women v 18% single men. 66% of those women have dependent children.

4.3 million children are in poverty UK govt won’t see progress on child poverty by 2029 even with high economic growth 📢 Our analysis shows under our central scenario only Scotland will see child poverty rates fall by 2029 in part due to social security policies 1/5

What is the historical relationship between wealth & ethnic background in the UK? By matching surnames to likely ethnic groups, Prof Neil Cummins uncovers five surprising facts about the evolution of ethnic wealth gaps since the 1850s #LSEInequalitiesBlog

🔥 Love this new #TaxTheSuperrich DIY sheet from @taxjusticenet.bsky.social. Concise and accessible framing which communicates lots of information about tax and the economy per se, AND makes a compelling case for taxing those who can most afford it to deliver fairness for all. Perfection! 💪

📣 WE'RE HIRING! 📣 📚 We're looking for a Head of Research to lead the research team and portfolio of the UK's leading racial justice think tank ⏳ Deadline, Thursday 6th February (9am) Apply here 👉 ow.ly/VNZw50UKgnO

This is welcome news. Redirecting focus from imprisoning women to exploring alternatives marks an important shift. Women’s centres achieve better outcomes and are more cost-effective, but they must be adequately funded to succeed. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Polling by Prof Bobby Duffy at KCL Policy Inst to be published this week tracks opinion changes over 60 years www.independent.co.uk/voices/tacti...

I'll be launching my new(ish!) @policypress.bsky.social book on Wednesday 19th February @lseinequalities.bsky.social and discussing ideas in it with the brilliant Armine Ishkanian, Rajiv Prabhakar and @mikesavagelse.bsky.social. Hope to see some of you there!: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

That is some graph on bus usage outside London after deregulation on.ft.com/49PfLlV

It was a pleasure to talk to @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social about ideas in my book on wealth inequality. See below for in effect what is a digested read of the book itself!

@socialpolicyuk.bsky.social Tax & Social Policy Group conference: Wealth Inequality, Tax & Social Policy @LSE Jan 16 2025. Speakers: @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, Rajiv Prabhakar @openuniversity.bsky.social.