Suzanne Bold

The Guardian view on the inequality emergency: why a Nobel prize winner’s warning must be heeded | Editorial Editorial: Rising economic division is destabilising nations and eroding accountability. Joseph Stiglitz’s G20 blueprint offers a way toward global economic renewal

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.

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Me, thinking about the budget, depicted via the Alan partridge speaking to his dictaphone meme

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.

UK Budget 2025: Fiscal deficit or democratic deficit? Expert analysis on the 2025 UK Budget. Reeves avoided important tax reforms, with the wealthy still not paying their fair share (income tax, capital gains, etc)

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

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👏 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...

As per usual there is something from the Morgan Jones archives to point to (and that is worth your time!) tocqueville21.com/tribunes/cou...

Richest man in the world

This Budget move could put £1,800 in every worker's pocket, according to economists A new report suggests that putting more money into public investment would boost growth and average earnings over the next decade

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.

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Failing that, reopen the Nunhead station cafe, opening it 8am-11am weekdays only. And I’d reinstate the biriyani boxes.

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

i'm stood in front a a big blue bus that read 'Tax Us, The Super Rich'

Just another (soggy) Wednesday at work

Christmas is approaching

You may delay, but time will not. etc etc etc

driving there from Newport this afternoon! I don't think there is a public meeting point for that stop, but we'll be pootling around the the town mid-afternoon to drop-in on some of our members.

ARRRRGH this country. Grasp the mildly inconvenient nettle!

Ah, I went to wonderful Keele - enjoy your visit!

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

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