Secrecy is essential to the crimes of the elite. It's what makes offshore tax havens so effective for dodging taxes, hiding dirty money & funding crime.
Public registers would allow tax authorities, police & journalists follow the money & expose corruption.
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📻 Yesterday on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed, Ryan Davey and Sarah Kerr explored the real-world impacts of debt and wealth inequality.
🎧 Listen: https://ow.ly/nHmY50YstC6
📚 Browse: https://ow.ly/PxUN50YstC5
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It was a pleasure and a privilege to speak to Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed about my work on wealth @uomphilosophy.bsky.social and @lseinequalities.bsky.social and great to share the experience with Ryan Davey talking about debt www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
👉 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:
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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!
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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.
Fair! Does sound interesting.
I'm attending @jowolff.bsky.social event online, and I have to say, I think I may have pulled the longer straw. It's great :)
#solidaritywithLA protest poster at US Embassy bus stop in London reads: ‘they blame immigrants so you don’t blame billionaires.’
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.
Every 'difficult' decision to cut welfare is at the same time a decision to leave other things - including obscene levels of surplus wealth - as they are.
'Other levers' needs to be spelled out: 🔊Tax 🔊The 🔊Richest 🔊More.
It won't hurt them, it will help millions, & fair 💰tax has public support 🎯
📣 "Without it, labour market data fails to capture the full economic reality for women."
Who. Knew.
Another 🔥 thread and content from @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social
🙄 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?
Erm...doppelganger??
📣 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-...
... and a perfect wfh view here in Nottingham, too. The blue certainly lifts the spirits doesn't it!
If you're interested in how wealth and wealth inequality are represented and what these representations contribute to campaigning or critical media content, then you could also check out this report that @michaelvaughan.bsky.social and I did for JRF: www.jrf.org.uk/narrative-ch...
We find: news media tend toward images of luxury and consumption (e.g. cars + yachts); civil society have more contrasts between rich and poor. We also look at two tropes which show how tricky this domain is: ambivalent representations of the super-rich, and birds-eye aerial photography.
📣 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.
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📣 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...
