Pay gap widens as UK bosses get 130 times average worker’s salary
In its final report the High Pay Centre says the median remuneration of a FTSE 100 CEO has risen to a record £5.06mTh...
Thinktanks should rethink their funding models | Letters
Hylton Guthrie says the UK has a problem with opaque political funding, while Andy McWilliam wonders if the closure o...
This thinktank exposed fat cats and obscenely high pay. Guess what has happened to it? | Polly Toynbee
The High Pay Centre revealed the excesses of CEO wages. But then anti-diversity winds blew in from across the Atlanti...
Britain’s dysfunctional dynamic: the public wants change, but those in power always tell them it’s not possible | Andy Beckett
Whenever major reform is proposed the media, big business and Westminster quickly conclude it’s too expensive and dis...
Almost no progress made on UK regional household income divide in 30 years, report finds
Despite promises of successive governments, gap between richest and poorest areas consistent since 1997Britain’s deep...
3,000% bonuses but a growing wealth divide: South Korea grapples with its AI chip boom
Powered by chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, South Korea is seeing a surge in wealth, but there are questi...
Ministers call for better tracking of teenagers at risk of dropping out of work or training in England
Councils and schools urged to do more as figures show there is no information on whereabouts of 32,100 ‘Neets’The gov...
Condemned to plutocracy? The relentless rise of US inequality
Elon Musk is a beneficiary of America’s lopsided prosperity – does the country have any appetite for redistribution?A...
Is it bad that Elon Musk has a trillion dollars? Yes, and here’s why
Just as the ‘poverty line’ determines what’s required for basic living, we need a ‘wealth line’ to show when extreme ...
An absurd illustration of Britain’s housing problem | Letters
Readers respond to an article about what was once the UK’s most expensive house, which has lain empty for yearsGrand ...
The case for Labour to introduce a wealth tax has never been stronger | Phillip Inman
A 2% levy on fortunes above £100m – with no exemptions – could begin to reverse decades of rising inequalityAndy Burn...
Global growth is slowing to lowest level since pandemic, says World Bank
Forecast for this year downgraded to 2.5% and inflation expected to jump as a result of war in the Middle East Globa...
We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world, from UN agencies to grassroots movements. We call on politic...
‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia?
Some will question its credibility. But the alternative future to the one imagined in the World Justice Report is far...
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions Humanity can ra...
What Blair gets wrong about the economy – it is fired by people, not business | Letters
Readers respond to Jonathan Freedland’s article about Tony Blair’s vision for the futureJonathan Freedland says Tony ...
Australia’s 178 billionaires are $25.7bn richer than last year as 3.7 million live in poverty
Oxfam finds the 20 richest Australians now hold more wealth than the bottom 3 million households, analysis shows Get ...
‘That’s why we work in finance – so one day we can afford air-con’: Britain’s unequal heatwave
While some found this week’s heat a breeze, many in poorer areas face health risks in furnace-like homesTravelling fr...
Financial bullying can ruin a marriage: first-person stories
When partners consider finances, when is it ‘my’ money, and when it is ‘our’ money? Guardian readers shared their exp...