Archive - Fair Comment

December 2025 roundup

Exploring fiscal fairness, political transparency and tax accountability as we wrap up 2025

Dec 29, 2025 • Jason Bunting

Twelve months of fairness

Prepare to feel festive?

Dec 15, 2025 • Will Snell

Glorious Devolution

Building a fairer economy relies on relaxing Whitehall’s grip on tax and spending powers via fiscal devolution

Dec 8, 2025 • Jason Bunting

We need HMRC to work better for ordinary taxpayers

Both fairness and our public finances depend on it (a guest post by Mike Lewis at TaxWatch)

Dec 1, 2025 • Will Snell

November 2025

Budget 2025: Fiscal deficit or democratic deficit?

A largely cautious Budget raises questions about how and why bolder ideas for UK tax reform were shelved – not least because the wealthy are clearly not…

Nov 27, 2025 • Will Snell

Is Britain broken?

Jack Jeffrey, Senior Researcher at the Fairness Foundation, argues that progress depends on an honest recognition of the problems with Britain's…

Nov 24, 2025 • Will Snell

Do you feel lucky?

Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place

Nov 19, 2025 • Will Snell

Our new report on how extreme wealth inequality contributes to the risk of suicide

Nov 17, 2025 • Anita Sangha

Is inequality starving the economy?

Exploring the evidence base for how wealth inequality undermines growth, and what we can do about it, with the Academy of Social Sciences

Nov 10, 2025 • Will Snell

Cursed by inequality

A summary of the discussion from our recent event with Dr Luke Kemp, author of 'Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse'

Nov 3, 2025 • Will Snell

October 2025

A wealth of evidence

Our updated Wealth Gap Risk Register shows that the increasing wealth divide in Britain is wreaking ever more havoc on our economy, society and…

Oct 28, 2025 • Will Snell

Straight Outta Richmal Crompton

The 'Just William' books were read by a generation who also grew up with the security of a functioning social contract. Today's young people are facing…

Oct 20, 2025 • Will Snell

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