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Another day, another scare story…

Once again research from a Wealth Management firm—dutifully amplified by national newspapers— is encouraging lower taxes on the rich.

Here’s 3 reasons why the in‑front‑of‑the‑paywall headline & synopsis (yet again) don’t match reality.

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Absolute shitshow. Lose-lose situation. No winners here.

It's been nearly 6 years and I'm still jealous of the furlough. My sourdough skills are years behind where they could have been.

If you publish with us and you want us to feature your article or special issue there we’re taking pitches again…

Our slightly exhausted blog has woken up and is now updating www.journalofculturaleconomy.org

Friends! Please join me in London or online for my inaugural lecture in April. There will be wine and nibbles! You can heckle me from the back row! I've already promised some raunchy Zed from Zardoz references - other indecent shout-out requests may be considered. Booking via QR code.

Someone welding is the background to this text overlay that reads making or taking? public attitudes to wealth creation and extraction

We've released new polling this morning on wealth creation which sends a clear message to policymakers:

Back Britain’s genuine wealth creators - and take on the extractive practices draining our communities.

🔗Read more: fairnessfoundation.com/making-or-ta...

A neon green square with the words: Redistributive Imaginaries: How do didigtla platforms shape meanings and practices of redistribution in Europe's mixed economies of welfare?

Join us for an online seminar to celebrate the end of our project, Redistributive Imaginaries, and the launch of our report.

18.03.26
12.00-13.30 CET

With @mrtzg.bsky.social, Mercè Oliva, Milana Čergić, John Clarke, @hannakuu.bsky.social & Eva Frade

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Technology discourse is so unhinged at the moment. Just zooming out, beyond specifics, the fact that there are multiple movements to "protect" kids from smartphones at the same time as there is increased pressure to AI everything all the time is bananas

Out today @intellectbooks.bsky.social: 'Reconstructing the American Dream: Life Inside the Tiny House Nation' w/Ella Harris, Mel Nowicki & Cian Oba-Smith. Through photographic and ethnographic accounts of life in Texas tiny home communities, we examine the politics of 'going tiny' in the US today.

Wie verändern sich Vorstellungen, Ideale und Praktiken von Umverteilung durch digitale Plattformen? Einladung zur Projektpräsentation (online)!

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

Brilliant, indispensable, chilling from
@melindacooper.bsky.social

www.equator.org/articles/eps...

A neon green square with the words: Redistributive Imaginaries: How do didigtla platforms shape meanings and practices of redistribution in Europe's mixed economies of welfare?

Join us for an online seminar to celebrate the end of our project, Redistributive Imaginaries, and the launch of our report.

18.03.26
12.00-13.30 CET

With @mrtzg.bsky.social, Mercè Oliva, Milana Čergić, John Clarke, @hannakuu.bsky.social & Eva Frade

ema.uzh.ch/RXNMK

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

This whole thing stinks.

Please take action, sign & share.
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Reeves urged to reassure MPs over public finances amid £6bn-a-year Send costs Image is of Rachel Reeves

In 2020, the year Sir Jim Ratcliffe moved his huge fortune to Monaco, migrants in the United Kingdom made tax contributions estimated to be worth around £20bn. Sir Jim, by jetting off to a tax haven on the French Riviera, saved himself an estimated £4bn. It took some brass neck for the expat owner of Ineos and co-owner of Manchester United football club to lecture the country, using inflammatory and offensive language, on the perils of immigration

stop trying to make another folk devil, we know the real problem here

“…subscription’s possible role in postcapitalist economic organization.”

The King's Fund are launching a new project about how we can reimagine the welfare state to ensure good health for everyone.

If you're interested in thinking through what that might mean in practice, please get in touch with us!

It’ll take more than a leadership change for Lab to begin rectifying this. They’d need to remove most of a generation, abandon a whole concept of politics they signed up to 30 years ago & open up an inclusive & pluralist politics that goes beyond parties.

Obviously that that won’t happen (5/)

A wonderful review essay by @liamstanley.bsky.social that we recently published in @newformations.bsky.social

Blog: Redistributive imaginaries and the future of welfare states: a report on our stakeholder workshops - Redigim Dr Jon Paylor and Prof Rebecca Bramall (UK team) report on knowledge exchange workshops held in autumn/winter 2025.

What happened when we shared findings from the Redistributive Imaginaries project with people working in community organising, digital innovation, tax justice, social policy + local government?

Read our blog about 5 workshops held in our case study countries.
redigim.arts.ac.uk/news/blog-re...

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We used a briefing document to share project findings, presenting each imaginary in the form of a persona.
ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/25...

We really enjoyed the workshop discussions and we’re grateful to all who took part. Next: our report launch and online seminar – more soon!

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Blog: Redistributive imaginaries and the future of welfare states: a report on our stakeholder workshops - Redigim Dr Jon Paylor and Prof Rebecca Bramall (UK team) report on knowledge exchange workshops held in autumn/winter 2025.

What happened when we shared findings from the Redistributive Imaginaries project with people working in community organising, digital innovation, tax justice, social policy + local government?

Read our blog about 5 workshops held in our case study countries.
redigim.arts.ac.uk/news/blog-re...

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An image of a hard copy of issue 114 of the journal New Formations. The cover image features protestor Brianna Noble riding her horse in a street in Oakland, California. A placard reading Black Lives Matter is attached to the horse.

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW

#114 Race, Racialisation and Racisms

Feat.

@jemgilbert.bsky.social (free to download)
Inna Arzumanova
Brenna Bhandar (free to download)
Erik Borda
Sarah Bufkin (free to download)
Basuli Deb
Anamik Saha

journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...

Now available for pre-order and we're open for book talks to students, workshops and conferences, organisations etc.
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Looking forward to talking to John Clarke about The Battle for Britain! This is the book I’ve quoted more than any others over the past 2 years. Reviewed it for Soundings here too, p101 journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vo...

Before we start recording the next series of the New Economics Podcast we want to hear from you about what you think!

Let us know what guests or topics you want to learn about - as well as any other feedback you have on the podcast in our short survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

YouTube video by Cultural Economy in the Kitchen The design episode! Cultural economies of design

We’re kicking off 2026 with The Design episode! Cultural economies of design. Find out how design shapes the way businesses and platforms imagine the future. @addiemcgowan.bsky.social and me with @ulissess.bsky.social Karl Palmas KorayCaliskan @jcultecon.bsky.social
youtu.be/M57gwqdwsXA

Distinct from the opportunistic ‘indigenous’ claims of the far right, and informed by the struggles of colonised Indigenous peoples, I read ‘liberal indigeneity’ as a white fantasy of ancestral belonging that attempts to negotiate the racial legacies of empire. 2/2