Fairness and hope: A guest post by Dr SJ Beard, Research Affiliate at @cser.bsky.social and author of a new book, 'Existential Hope'

A fun afternoon with our members at their local club, @leytonorientfc.bsky.social. We were proud match sponsors and had a great time cheering on the O's. Patriotic millionaires will always be on the side of the people. It's time to tax the super rich. #TaxWealthNotWork #WealthTaxNow

As the UK gvt welcomes USA President Donald Trump & tech CEOs today, the future of the Digital Services Tax seemingly hangs in the balance. Our Policy and Advocacy Manager was on BBC News making the case for taxing highly profitable Big Tech. Read more: taxjustice.uk/blog/digital...

💡Real progress on inequality needs people willing to steer attention from personal grit to structural solutions. Especially valuable are successful voices ready to say how luck played a decisive role in their own achievements 🤝 🔗https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/to-act-collectively-we-need-brave

Individually, we often recognise the importance of collective factors (like being born into wealth or poverty) in influencing life chances and outcomes, but collectively, we tend to maintain the fiction that whether people end up rich or poor is mostly down to individual characteristics and choices.

Today, the Employment Rights Bill returns to the Commons. Together with leading women's organisations, we have written to Minister Peter Kyle urging him to resist amendments to water down the legislation. Delivering the bill in full as promised is key to advancing gender equality.

Speaking on Antisocial Economics with @wealtherty.bsky.social, our CE Will Snell discusses how we might better understand wealth inequality- and communicate some of its solutions 📢 🎧Listen on the podcast platform of your choice

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?

High on the agenda at this year’s TUC Congress is to ‘organise the unorganised’. This week we look at sectoral collective bargaining, including looking at the government’s plans for Fair Pay Agreements and the economic case for extending them in the UK: www.neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/t...

🎗️On World Suicide Prevention Day, we're announcing an event with @d-liveability.bsky.social, to bring together experts on the link between wealth inequality & suicide. 📅 Tuesday 16 September 🕚 11–12:30 📄Full report to follow 📬 Want to get involved? Email [email protected]

Wealth inequality isn’t just about concentration at the top- it's also about building assets at the bottom, to give everyone a fairer stake. Our new piece explores insights from a joint roundtable with @jrf-uk.bsky.social on this challenge: 🔗https://www.faircomment.co.uk/p/spreading-the-muck

Spreading the muck: Key themes from our roundtable with @jrf-uk.bsky.social on tackling wealth inequality through asset-based welfare and wealth taxation

✅ Unearthed suit from back of wardrobe ✅ Located and stroked Larry the Cat ❌ Wrong door (was actually at a reception at No 11 hosted by @ippr.org and Rt Hon Rachel Reeves- grateful for the invitation to recognise organisations focused on policies to improve people's lives) 🤝

"In a society where wealth distribution is so unequal - and the impacts of that inequality on our mental health are so pernicious - it’s something we’ve got to face up to." With @fairness.bsky.social, we explore how to tackle the mental health benefits of wealth inequality 👇 tinyurl.com/4ysy3knv

We need to talk about wealth inequality and mental health (joint post with @andybell-centremh.bsky.social at @centreformh.bsky.social)

📢 One month from today, we’ll be taking part in the #MakeThemPay march. This march is a call for a society that works for everyone. 👉 Join us and thousands of others to demand a fairer future. 📍 Assemble at Portland Place, London, Sat 20th September 12pm

⏰ ONE MONTH TO GO! ⏰ The stakes couldn’t be clearer: 🥵 we’re coming out of the 4th heatwave of the summer 🔥 a record amount of land has been burnt by wildfires already this year 🤑 and CEOs of the most polluting industries in the UK are getting richer

💡Council Tax is broken- we're backing calls for a Proportional Property Tax. For too long, outdated & regressive Council Tax rates have left many paying more than they can afford, while worsening regional inequalities. October’s Budget is the chance to make the system fairer.

As part of United for All Ages' new report, we've talked about the “meritocratic myth” - the idea that success is purely down to effort. In reality, acknowledging the role of luck on life chances could help us build a fairer society. 👉 Read the full report here: www.unitedforallages.com/news

🚨NEW: The pay of FTSE 100 CEOs has reached a new record high of £4.58 million. The third record setting year in a row. FTSE 100 CEO pay is 122 times greater than the typical UK worker. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Building a society-centred economy: A guest post by Peter Ellis, author of 'The Accidental Societist: How to build a fairer economy, politics and society'

Rachel Reeves will make "fairness" central to her pitch to differentiate Labour from Reform. Here's a bit of discourse analysis I did for @fairness.bsky.social which analysed thousands of uses of the word "fairness" by politicians. fairnessfoundation.com/in-the-house

🌡Our recent research warned that wealth inequality supercharges the risks of heatwaves: fairnessfoundation.com/inequality-k... Now, new @resfoundation.bsky.social research shows low-income households will shoulder the greatest burden of those heatwaves. More: 👇 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

New polling released today from @yougov.co.uk, @bestforbritain.org & @policyatkings.bsky.social reveals some of the motivations that drive Reform voters. This research exposes how the impacts of the growing wealth gap are fuelling political discontent across society. 🧵

🚀 A new report from @ippr.org contains insightful recommendations on the need for a serious plan to rebuild opportunity for young people👇 The report cites our 'deep opportunity' concept, a call to tackle the systemic barriers holding too many people back. Read more 👉 www.ippr.org/articles/tow...

When world-leading economists argue that the UK needs a wealth tax our Govt should listen. History tells us ambition is possible and preferable; that the UK can be world leading. Prime Minister be ambitious for our country - tax us, the super rich www.theguardian.com/business/202...

⚖️ What would it take to ensure effective commencement of socio-economic duty in the Equality Act? Will Snell @fairness.bsky.social reflects on the and uphill battle of putting class and economic inequality at the heart of equality law. Read more: www.linkedin.com/pul...

Proud to back the 'is it fAIR?' campaign launched today, highlighting the scale of toxic air across Britain. Deprived areas across the country have the highest levels of pollution- limiting life chances and threatening opportunities. It's time for robust government action. #MakeHealthEqual

New this week in Fair Comment: our latest report, based on a roundtable with the Policy Institute at KCL and the Future Threats Lab, reveals how wealth inequality worsens the impact of heatwaves on low-income households. Read more here 👉 www.faircomment.co.uk/p/inequality...

In our new report out today, we look at how wealth inequality worsens the impact of extreme heat events in the UK, especially for the most vulnerable, and shapes how we can respond. Read more here 👉 fairnessfoundation.com/inequality-k...

In this blog, Will Snell chief executive at @fairness.bsky.social highlights how wealth inequality undermines our climate response in three critical ways - increasing vulnerability, distorting politics and weakening social cohesion. Read here:

"We now live in a society in which what you own (or inherit) is more important than what you earn." In this blog, Will Snell chief executive at @fairness.bsky.social explores how wealth inequality supercharges climate risks for everyone: buff.ly/O3q3oaq

Joined @ippr.org yesterday to hear from @eddavey.libdems.org.uk about the steps that the @libdems.org.uk see as important for the creation of a dynamic and fair economy.

The hidden costs of food insecurity: How food insecurity and underlying inequalities increase the risk of eating disorders

Another excellent article from @tom-clark.bsky.social. "Only by channelling a full-throated, emotive case for fairness will wealth-taxing politicians stand a chance against the forces of emotion that will—for certain—be conjured up in defence of big money."

We're calling on the Government to include regulators in plans to introduce the Socio-Economic Duty. It would help reduce the ingrained poverty premiums faced by people in socio-economically disadvantaged groups through a more strategic approach. fairbydesign.com/blog-socio-e...

In a new article for the RSA, Will Snell argues that we should bust the myth of meritocracy, and acknowledge the outsized role that luck plays in all of our lives- as well as the impacts of the structural barriers holding people back. Read the full article here: www.thersa.org/rsa-journal/...

In a new piece, our CE Will Snell argues that if communicated well and designed and implemented effectively, action to tackle inequality can be both necessary and popular. Read the full article here: inequality.org/article/can-...

75% of Britons say they would support a wealth tax proposed by former Labour leader Lord Kinnock of 2% on wealth over £10 million Support: 75% Oppose: 13% yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

For too long, our tax system has penalised work while letting wealth go largely untaxed. That must change. The only fair choice ahead for the government is to finally tax wealth properly while rewarding and supporting those who underpin our economy and society. Full statement 👇

This is a v good piece on the enactment of the #socioeconomic #duty, #duties can help but don't expect them to get you all the way. Similar things in our recent @thekingsfund.bsky.social @clesthinkdo.bsky.social essay on the new #health duty for strategic authorities cles.org.uk/publications...

New legislation to enact the socio-economic duty is long-overdue. But until the government shows much more ambition to fully tackle socio-economic inequality, enacting the duty will only scratch the surface. Full piece from Will Snell here: www.faircomment.co.uk/p/pushing-th...

Pushing the socio-economic duty up the hill: Welcome (and long overdue) planned legislation, requiring UK public authorities to consider the impacts of policy decisions on socio-economic inequality, faces an uphill struggle

This week, the Prime Minister said that fairness is at the heart of this government’s story👇 But just how fair can we say the new government’s approach has been in its first year? You can find our full article answering that question here: fairnessfoundation.com/fair-comment

A mixed report card: Labour’s first year

🚨BREAKING Multiple British Overseas Territories just missed their deadline to expose the £billions being stashed away in secret offshore accounts by super rich tax dodgers, corporates, and criminals. This is the third such deadline they’ve missed. 1/4 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Failing the fairness test on social security: The government’s rhetoric on fairness doesn’t match reality when it comes to social security cuts.

The Prime Minister's concessions aren't enough. Our new report with Sisters of Frida & supported by @refugecharity.bsky.social warns of the devastating impact of cuts on Disabled women. Full story by @milliecooke.bsky.social 👇 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The disability wealth gap: A recent report on high levels of income poverty among disabled people complements emerging evidence about the barriers faced by disabled people in building assets

🚨BREAKING HMRC missed out on around £47bn in taxes — from errors, avoidance and evasion— according to its annual "Tax Gap" report, released today. Here's why that is likely an underestimate, and why the real gap is likely to keep on growing... 🧵1/8