Great to see the @greenparty.org.uk under @zackpolanski.bsky.social have included tackling excessive income equality in their plan to take on the affordability crisis. 10:1 pay ratios is very ambitious, but far better to aim high than accept a broken status quo which few people support.
March listening
Fab video from the @highpaycentre.bsky.social on the *shocking* size of bankers bonuses 💰
Years of higher interest rates have let banks rake in record profits while our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soar.
Add your name to #TaxTheBanks 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
We spoke to Londoners how they felt about CEOs of the big banks getting bumper pay rises, and earning more in a year than most people would earn in several lifetimes.
See how they responded below.
Increasing collective prosperity and tackling economic inequality is not a binary and should not be seen as one.
Many people have growing awareness that greater economic growth does not necessarily mean better living standards for themselves.
Few examples better illustrate the UK’s broken corporate model than thousands of homes across Kent being left without water. Our researcher, Paddy Goffey, writes in
@LeftFootFwd outlining the need for CEO to worker pay gap caps in such failing industries: leftfootforward.org/2026/01/why-...
The govt came to power claiming to be pro worker and pro business, but pro-business shouldn’t mean caving to the most regressive demands of the business lobby. Nor should good regulation be used as an excuse for poor growth. Our statement on the govt scrapping the corporate governance and audit bill
By this time yesterday FTSE 100 CEOs had already made more this year than an avg UK worker earns all year.
Our Interim Director @andrewspeke.bsky.social explains how we can start to tackle extreme pay inequality. Sign our Fat Cat Tax petition here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fat-…
We are sad to be saying goodbye to our Executive Director of seven years, @lukehildyard.bsky.social, and are pleased to announce that our Head of Communications, @andrewspeke.bsky.social, will be stepping in as Interim Director. We wish Luke all the best in his new role at @shareaction.bsky.social!
The full report showing who the highest earners are and our proposed solutions to extreme pay inequality is now published here. highpaycentre.org/ceo-pay-in-t...
🚨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...
In Westminster, a Blue Labour staff network has been set up.
I spoke to the earnest (mostly) young (mostly) men of the tendency about their politics, plans and why they really just want to have a big chat:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
NEW: Our latest research shows that pay gaps at the largest UK companies between CEOs and their employees are as wide now as they were 5 years ago, with a FTSE 100 CEO paid 78 times more than their median employee.
Has the time come for a maximum wage?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
We cannot compete with the vast sums JK Rowling has to spend on her war on a tiny minority and civil society organisations that want to promote inclusivity.
But @goodlawproject.bsky.social is the UK's biggest defender of trans rights. If you'd like to support our work there's a link in my bio.
In an era when the global political situation and climate crisis make sustained economic growth increasingly hard to achieve, we can't increase living standards for most people without tackling extreme inequality.
New research from @equalitytrust.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
Kind of amazing how nakedly dishonest are Wes Streeting's lot when it comes to suppressing data on young people taking their own lives in consequence of the withdrawal of gender affirming care. 🤯🧵
The High Pay Centre response to the 2025 Sunday Times Rich List
The rich list is a useful annual reminder of the inefficiency of the UK economy.
Despite a dip in oligarch wealth this year, in the long term it has shown a trend of a handful of very rich people capturing an increasing share of the country’s wealth.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Recently left Labour and joined the Greens to #backzack in the Greens leadership election this summer.
Politics has swung to the right in the UK and we need the Greens to provide a strong left alternative which prioritises tackling the root cause of our problems - inequality.
Average global CEO pay has skyrocketed 50% since 2019 to $4.3M.
By contrast, average worker pay has risen just 0.9% over that same time period.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Today's results and the feedback from voters shows that this government is going to need to do more to improve the material conditions of those on low and middle incomes if they want to stay in power after the next election. Tackling economic inequality is crucial to that. (1/4)
On 19 May we are hosting this webinar with the authors of new book 'Collective Employment Relations: A Strategic Guide" to discuss how positive relationships between management and trade unions can benefit both business and workers.
highpaycentre.org/fromconflict...
You’re better than this.
Also trans is an adjective not a noun. This isn’t to be pedantic but better to say “trans rights” or “trans people”.
Adrianne Lenker’s new live album deserves some hype. The most immediately satisfying album I’ve heard so far this year. Love everything about it.
There’s a really depressing irony of billionaires banging on about how privileged trans people are when we all send the same £20 to each other’s surgery fundraisers, yet they’re stumping up £70,000 to pay for the erosion of our rights
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Literally every single toilet is cleaned by attendants of every gender. They're not sex protected spaces, at all.
The Minister is just a transphobe.
Beyond contempt. What’s worse is that the political choices and statements the government are making go way beyond the limited judgment the Supreme Court made over the use of the term woman in the Equality Act.
Just morally bankrupt pandering to a media radicalised by anti-trans hysteria
I wonder whether this is also why UK courts are so reluctant to hear from trans people. They harbour a belief, unacknowledged even to themselves, that to be trans is to lack the ability to make decisions about your own life. It's akin to how White nations once thought about Black and Brown people.
