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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · Sep 1

👉 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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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · Aug 26

But the story doesn’t need to end there.

In our latest paper, Adam Peggs lays forth a new proposal: Right to Buy-back.

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Restoring Council Housing After Right To Buy

Converting existing homes into council housing is a missing piece of the public housing puzzle.

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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · Aug 22

"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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Rachel Reeves needs to find cash fast. A wealth tax really is her only viable option | Faiza Shaheen

The alternatives for the UK chancellor are either unworkable or will lose Labour votes, so here’s what she should try, says Faiza Shaheen of Tax Justice UK

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Sacha Hilhorst @sachahilhorst.bsky.social · Aug 5

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...

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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · Jul 29

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.

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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Jul 16

Fair! Does sound interesting.

Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Jul 16

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 :)

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · Jun 12

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.

#solidaritywithLA protest poster at US Embassy bus stop in London reads: ‘they blame immigrants so you don’t blame billionaires.’

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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Jun 9

👉 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.

LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Jun 9

🧵New @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @lseinequalities.bsky.social report by @wealtherty.bsky.social @michaelvaughan.bsky.social and Annalena Oppel:

We showcase three different ways of talking about wealth inequality and what difference it makes to public attitudes.

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Talking about wealth inequality

Looking at perceptions of, and attitudes towards, wealth and wealth inequality — and how to increase public support for a fairer distribution.

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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Jun 4

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.”

LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Jun 4

Has class consciousness disappeared from UK politics – or merely taken on a new form? From their interviews with communities in several towns and cities, @sachahilhorst.bsky.social‬ & Insa Koch uncover attitudes to wealth and power that remain deeply classed #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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What “corruption talk” tells us about class politics today - LSE Inequalities

Has UK class politics disappeared? Interviews with working class people suggests not, with deeply classed attitudes to wealth, power and corruption revealed

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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · Apr 24

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.

Letter to the Government about the independent review of the Office for National Statistics (ONS)

We welcome the independent review into the data collected and published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). We are writing to the Government and the UK Statistics Authority to ask that the te...

www.wbg.org.uk

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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · Apr 1

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.

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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · Apr 1

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...

Guest blog - Tax is not a burden the view from the Women's Budget Group | Chartered Institute of Taxation

In this guest blog, Professor Susan Himmelweit and Ignacia Pinto, Senior Research and Policy Officer at the Women’s Budget Group, discuss the importance of progressive taxation in tackling gender ineq...

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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · Mar 27

🚨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.

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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Mar 20

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 🎯

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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Mar 20

📣 "Without it, labour market data fails to capture the full economic reality for women."

Who. Knew.

Another 🔥 thread and content from @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social

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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Mar 20

🙄 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?

Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · Mar 20

ONS employment data out today highlights why we need better gender-sensitive economic data.

Declining survey responses & reliance on admin data risk overlooking women’s contributions—especially unpaid care work. We need accurate gender-sensitive data to inform effective policymaking. 🧵 1/3

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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Mar 1

Erm...doppelganger??

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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Feb 28

📣 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...

Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · Feb 28

JOB ALERT: ADVOCACY MANAGER 💼 We’re looking for an exceptional person to help us to build the profile of the Fairness Foundation with our core audience - the decision-makers and influencers who can help to build a fairer Britain. fairnessfoundation.com/jobs/advocac...

Advocacy Manager at the Fairness Foundation

Help us make the case for a fairer Britain: fostering external relationships, engaging with policymakers, and driving our advocacy strategy in 2025

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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Feb 28

📣 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-...

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📣 Are you presenting a paper at the Social Policy Association (SPA) Conference this year? 📣 📣 Does your paper have a tax dimension? 📣 📣 Would you like…

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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Feb 28

... and a perfect wfh view here in Nottingham, too. The blue certainly lifts the spirits doesn't it!

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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Feb 28

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...

Changing the narrative on wealth inequality

New approaches to framing wealth inequality as a social problem could build political pressure for change.

www.jrf.org.uk

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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Feb 28

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.

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Sarah Kerr @wealtherty.bsky.social · Feb 28

📣 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/...

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Birgan Gokmenoglu @birgangokmenoglu.bsky.social · Feb 24

🧵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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