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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Millionaires are five times more concerned about doctors leaving the UK than they are about other millionaires emigrating 💸 Our poll also found millionaires are proud to live in the UK, and they're willing to pay more tax to invest in our country and its young people.
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Andrew Speke @andrewspeke.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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.
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Andrew Speke @andrewspeke.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Positive Money UK @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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
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Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing. The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...
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Andrew Speke @andrewspeke.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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.
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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.
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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-...
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Why it’s time for CEO-to-worker pay caps
A new approach based on CEO to worker pay gap caps could ensure execs are committed to providing a public good, as opposed to being driven solely by financial incentives.
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Andrew Speke @andrewspeke.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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-…
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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!
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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...
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CEO pay in the FTSE 100 reaches record high for the third year in a row - High Pay Centre
The High Pay Centre's annual review of CEO pay in the FTSE 100 shows median CEO pay jumping from £4.29m to £4.58m in 2024/2025
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🚨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...
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Record salaries for UK chief executives as pay rises for third year in a row
Report finds more than £1bn handed out to just 217 FTSE 100 bosses in the last financial year
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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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...
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Meet the Blue Labour bros
Inside the ideological faction remaking the party and the government.
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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...
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CEO pay at UK’s top companies is 52 times that of typical worker, report finds
High Pay Centre thinktank says median pay of FTSE 350 chief executive was £2.4m in 2023-24 financial year
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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...
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UK’s 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of population, analysis finds
Equality Trust says billionaires getting ‘ludicrously’ richer, with top two now wealthier than whole of 1990 rich list
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The High Pay Centre response to the 2025 Sunday Times Rich List
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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...
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King Charles’s wealth swells to match Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty on UK rich list
Sunday Times says monarch’s personal fortune has risen to £640m, while that of ex-PM and wife has fallen to that level
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Andrew Speke @andrewspeke.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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.
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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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"?
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Global CEO pay increased by 50 percent since 2019, 56 times more than worker wages
Average CEO pay surged by 50 percent in real terms since 2019, while average worker wages increased by just 0.9 percent.
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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)
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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...
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From Conflict to Collaboration: Rethinking Union-Management Relations - High Pay Centre
How unions & management can work together to navigate change, tackle inequality & build fairer workplaces in a shifting world of work. (Online webinar, 12:00-13:00, Monday 19 May)
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Andrew Speke @andrewspeke.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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.
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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Matt @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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.
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Andrew Speke @andrewspeke.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
NEW: Thousands of people with cancer, cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases, and more than 200,000 people with arthritis are among the 1.3 million whose disability benefits are at risk from planned cuts, according to FOI data By me, for @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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1.3 million ill people could lose PIP under Labour's disability benefit cuts
Labour's benefit reforms could see thousands of people with cancer and more than 200,000 people with arthritis lose their PIP payments.
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Andrew Speke @andrewspeke.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The gender angle aside, just another example of a billionaire using their wealth to change the world in their image. Genuinely absurd how JK Rowling is more often discussed as a victim rather than a malign actor with regards trans issues.
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Sheridan Kates @sheridanvk.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Interested in learning about how we could run our economy as if people and planet actually mattered? Come join us in London in June for some outstanding courses on ecological economics and money with @modernmoneylab.org.uk - all details at modernmoneylab.org.uk
a barcode falling away to reveal a woodland, together with the title of one of the events: "Rethinking Capitalism: Economics where people and the environment matter"
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Andrew Speke @andrewspeke.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Higher levels of poverty and cuts to public services are not inevitable. A wealth tax should be a no-brainer.
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A reminder that this rally to tax the super-rich will be taking place 5pm today outside the Treasury. There is no need to cut vital services if excessive earnings and wealth are taxed fairly.
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Inequality is soaring, public services are crumbling & the climate is collapsing. We need investment to fix these crises. 📢 Join the spring budget rally & tell the Chancellor: tax the super-rich, don't cut public services! 📅 Tues 25, 5pm, Westminster
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I think of this as 'everything is comms' disease. This interview looked awful because the policy is, in fact, awful. You can't do an interview about it and come across well unless your interlocutor is under-prepared!
‘Rising star’ minister dim on Labour benefit cuts
Torsten Bell has long been seen in Labour circles as a rising star, and it had been so far so good since the general election for the new MP.


He was one of the first frontbenchers of the 2024 intake and it looked as if, for the special adviser turned economist turned minister, the only way was up. 


But a car-crash interview on BBC Newsnight after Labour’s £5 billion benefits cut raised stark questions about the brightness of the Swansea West MP’s future.


He has been described as arrogant, lacking empathy and out of touch for ploughing through questions from Victoria Derbyshire such as: “Are you okay with making people worse off?”


A little human touch would go a long way in helping ministers sell the “moral case” for Labour’s welfare reforms.
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Andrew Speke @andrewspeke.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The only remotely appealing comms I’ve seen from any major UK political party recently
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A pay rise for the CEO of a major private utilities firm the same day as the price cap on energy bills goes up shows the current model is failing the UK public. A new model is needed to ensure energy provision prioritises consumers and the environment www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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British Gas boss set for £245,000 pay rise on day bills rise by £100
Centrica boss Chris O'Shea will see his basic salary soar to £1.1million on the day energy bills for household across the country are set to rise by around £100.
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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I'm in LabourList, writing about Project Chainsaw, Scottish DOGE, and Labour talking about making Britain great again, all of which does nothing but signal desperation and a clanging lack of ideological self confidence. labourlist.org/2025/03/labo...
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‘Labour should drop the chainsaw rhetoric and stop trying to impress journalists' - LabourList
Morgan Jones argues that Labour does not need to riff on Milei and Musk.
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Andrew Speke @andrewspeke.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The limitations of Bluesky
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Powerful editorial in @theguardian.com today "Labour’s transformation can be seen as a quiet coup by the professional-managerial class who prize economic orthodoxy over radical redistribution" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view of Labour’s cruellest trick: selling welfare cuts as compassion | Editorial
Editorial: By defining itself as the party of work, Labour casts those unable to be economically productive – through disability or ill health – as burdens, not individuals with rights
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 18/03/2025
"Our two countries are Asian civilizations. We share common values and cooperation is in our interests". cool. (also for info for those who try to palestine-washing the Chinese state) www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/ar...
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China’s ambassador: “The war is not the theme of Israel-China bilateral relations” | CTech
In a rare wide-ranging interview, China’s ambassador to Israel, Xiao Junzheng, discusses Beijing’s strong economic ties with Israel despite geopolitical tensions, its vision for regional stability, th...
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High Pay Centre @highpaycentre.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Instead of cutting benefits for the sick and the disabled, it is more urgent than ever for the government to introduce a wealth tax. This could bring in £460bn a week, helping to tackle inequality, support the vulnerable and improve living standards for all.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
it's been very much underplayed of late how Reeves and McSweeney (and Starmer himself, to the extent that Starmer actually believes in anything) just outright *want* to cut disability benefit.
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 11/03/2025
One under appreciated point in the discussion on welfare is that we live in a very different economy to that of 50 years ago. Our economy is dominated by service/knowledge industries - sectors it’s particularly hard to work in if you’re neurodiverse or have a chronic mental health condition. 🧵
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 09/03/2025
It's genuinely hard to keep track of how many other countries have recently reviewed trans healthcare for kids and come up with literally the polar opposite of the "Cass Review" Australia, Canada, France, Poland and now Germany, Austria and Switzerland www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-german...
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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Please make it stop. I know there’s not much of substance to discuss with the Chancellor at the moment, but really?
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It is so 2025 that a film with a trans storyline that the trans community fucking despises wins some of the most prestigious film awards in the world and the cisgender winners don’t even mention what’s happening to the trans community in the very country they’re accepting the awards in
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