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Young people urgently need a stake in the future. Does the autumn budget deliver it?
Autumn budget

Young people urgently need a stake in the future. Does the autumn budget deliver it?

As Andy Burnham promises to end neoliberalism, young people facing soaring rents, mounting debt and insecure work are left wondering whether the autumn budget offers meaningful change, writes Naked Politics’ Banseka Kayembe

The Uprising director Paul Greengrass: ‘A world so sharply divided is going to be angry’
Film

The Uprising director Paul Greengrass: ‘A world so sharply divided is going to be angry’

Andrew Garfield stars in a tale from British history about the vast inequalities between wealthy oligarchs and ordinary people. Sounds familiar?

‘It’s none of Trump’s business how we run our internal affairs’
Letters

‘It’s none of Trump’s business how we run our internal affairs’

Big issue readers hit back at Trump’s interference in British politics

‘A wealth tax can only go so far – how about preventing people amassing riches in the first place?’
Letters

‘A wealth tax can only go so far – how about preventing people amassing riches in the first place?’

Inside the Big Issue: Gary says wealth tax
Gary Stevenson

Inside the Big Issue: Gary says wealth tax

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To tackle homophobia and safeguard LGBTQ+ rights we have to address wealth inequality and poverty
Books

To tackle homophobia and safeguard LGBTQ+ rights we have to address wealth inequality and poverty

How the house price boom at the turn of the century slashed social mobility
Housing

How the house price boom at the turn of the century slashed social mobility

The UK’s ‘millionaire exodus’ is a humongous myth. Here’s why it keeps rearing its ugly head
Wealth

The UK’s ‘millionaire exodus’ is a humongous myth. Here’s why it keeps rearing its ugly head

What could Elon Musk do with $1 trillion?
Elon Musk

What could Elon Musk do with $1 trillion?

I’m an Anacé chief in Brazil. For Indigenous people, resistance is not a choice. It’s survival
Chief Roberto Ytaysaba Anacé

I’m an Anacé chief in Brazil. For Indigenous people, resistance is not a choice. It’s survival

Could a wealth tax convince young people to vote Labour?
Your views

Could a wealth tax convince young people to vote Labour?

We cannot continue letting billionaires keep the world’s money while the poorest suffer
Adriana Abdenur

We cannot continue letting billionaires keep the world’s money while the poorest suffer

Taxing wealth in the budget could score the chancellor a triple win
Howard Reed and Martin O’Neill

Taxing wealth in the budget could score the chancellor a triple win

Get rich and die trying: Typical Brit must save entire lifetime of earnings to become wealthy
Wealth

Get rich and die trying: Typical Brit must save entire lifetime of earnings to become wealthy

Forget Xenomorphs: The real threat in Alien was wage inequality and corporate greed
FIlm

Forget Xenomorphs: The real threat in Alien was wage inequality and corporate greed

World will soon see first trillionaires as wealth of billionaires yet again on the rise: ‘Obscene’
Trillionaires

World will soon see first trillionaires as wealth of billionaires yet again on the rise: ‘Obscene’