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The super-rich

June 2026

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    double quotation markThink Musk the billionaire was bad? Brace yourself for Musk the trillionaire

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Becoming the world’s first trillionaire is only going to supercharge this sense of impunity and bring us one step closer to full-blown oligarchy
  • Tree saplings at Stobo Hope commercial forest

    Tax-break trees: how woodland became a store of wealth for the rich

    Attempt to turn a stretch of the English-Scottish border into a commercial forest exposes threat to habitats from wealthy investors
  • Péter Magyar, Prime Minister of Hungary, takes selfies with his young supporters

    Orbán’s oligarchs on edge as Hungary poised to launch wealth tax

    New PM Péter Magyar calls policy a sign of ‘social justice’ after years of political loyalty being rewarded with economic opportunity

May 2026

  • A red Ferrari car parked on New Bond Street, London.

    Instead of opting in, millionaires should have to opt out of paying extra tax

  • Two people walk past graffiti reading 'Food Bank' on a brick wall with a 'No Ball Games' sign above

    Wealth of Britain’s 157 billionaires now equal to 22% of country’s GDP

  • An older bald man in glasses and a suit (but no tie) walks in a hall with US flags in background

    Gateway co-founder detailed his romantic relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell in House testimony

  • aerial shot of a warehouse surrounded by trees

    Trump mega-donors pause Wisconsin development project, citing economic uncertainty

  • Three-quarters of UK millionaires would be happy to pay more tax, research finds

  • double quotation markPity the poor billionaires – demands for higher taxes must feel hurtful

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs

April 2026

  • John Swinney and Malcolm Offord during a Scottish election debate in Glasgow

    Reform’s Scottish leader called ‘tone deaf’ after boasting about his houses, cars and yachts

  • Superyacht with Hong Kong skyline in background

    Russian oligarch’s superyacht allowed through strait of Hormuz, source says

  • people holds signs that read 'billionaire tax now'

    California billionaire tax proposal garners enough signatures to head to ballot

  • Marina Hyde

    double quotation markBehold the riches to riches tale of Lauren Sánchez – the girlboss Cinderella who bought the ball

    Marina Hyde

  • Congress members join protest against ‘oligarch’s dinner’ for Trump thrown by Ellisons

  • Number of billionaires globally could reach 4,000 in next five years

  • ‘Italy has the best benefits’: Milan takes on Dubai as home for the super-rich

  • The big interview
    A gangster, a bogus inheritance and a dead 19-year-old: the mystery Patrick Radden Keefe couldn’t ignore

March 2026

  • Man with reflection mirrored in picture

    Washington state’s ‘historic’ millionaire tax takes aim at super-rich – will it succeed?

  • person wearing heather blue shirt

    Tech's big flex
    Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax

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