Imagine if a sports journalist regularly described Sergio Agüero as a Manchester United player and insisted that West Bromwich Albion … Continue reading “On inequality, the BBC’s headline doesn’t line up with the facts”

Listen to the Dear Leader Jeremy Corbyn and his fellow travellers, and one would think that economic inequality in the … Continue reading “Everything the left thinks it knows about inequality is wrong”

Oxfam began as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief. It still does valuable disaster relief work today, but it often … Continue reading “Oxfam is more interested in eradicating wealth than in eradicating poverty”

The Equality Trust is the latest organisation to call for the mandatory reporting of the ratio between the pay of … Continue reading “What’s wrong with disclosing executive pay differentials?”

The chart below has been retweeted thousands of times on Twitter in the past week, accompanied by such pearls of … Continue reading “A rising tide that lowers the boats? On wage growth and labour market performance since the crash”

Consider this thought experiment. You have been transported back to 1912 and have the power to change the course of … Continue reading “Want a more equal society? Be careful what you wish for”

Every once in a while, Oxfam likes to talk about inequality in the UK, though God knows what that has … Continue reading “Oxfam’s inequality fabrications”

As a new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs explains this week, the tale we are told about inequality in … Continue reading “Is envy of the super-rich by the rest of the rich driving the inequality debate?”

“A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.” This quotation has been attributed to a whole range of undesirable people, … Continue reading “Almost everything the Left tells you about inequality is wrong”