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Interesting attempt to identify and analyse who 'elites' are across the world - the World Elite Database. worldelitedatabase.org/?mc_cid=c881c5… And a useful summary, where I got the pic (which shows how incredibly male elites are) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Who gets access to Ministers and civil servants? Great report from Spotlight on Corruption showing, for example, that business/commercial stakeholders got 23 times as many meetings as charity/consumer/public interest group stakeholders. spotlightcorruption.org/wp-content/upl…

Here's my succinct roundup of financial system news for this month - enjoy! Main stories are: poor enforcement of economic crime rules; how the financial system is/isn't adapting to the climate crisis. Oh & whether the whole system will collapse ... financeinnovationlab.org/changing-finan…

America is becoming the greatest tax haven in history - from Joseph Stiglitz project-syndicate.org/commentary/ame…

Major coalition pensions campaign launched today - please sign petition & share! act.350.org/sign/fairer-gr… Calls on govt to truly fix the system to deliver decent pensions for all, invest in the just transition, & phase out destructive investment. uk.news.yahoo.com/jason-isaacs-s…

The richest 50 families in the UK have more wealth than the bottom half of the population. A small wealth tax on just the people in the Sunday Times Rich List could have raised £160bn for public services theguardian.com/news/2025/may/… patrioticmillionaires.uk/latest-news/sp…

Interesting article on how China is using financial sector policy to boost its green economy. Key tools, which could be used in the UK include giving cheap loans for green investments, and reducing the cost of capital through the collateral framework. greencentralbanking.com/2025/05/23/how…

Great article: how a lack of financing (on the right terms) holds back proven technologies, not just novel ones. The National Wealth Fund should back proven tech like wind, solar, retrofitting where the market fails to scale up. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/05/22/lac… NEF Green Alliance

The 2025 Financial Secrecy Index confirms the UK's shameful position as a major enabler of companies & individuals who hide their money from the rule of law, with 4 of the 20 worst offenders: Guernsey (9) BVI (16) Caymans (19) UK (20) #stopdirtymoney fsi.taxjustice.net/#scoring_id=268

How the next financial crisis starts - long read focussing on the impact of climate change on insurers, and how this could lead to property price falls that could trigger a crisis on.ft.com/46dSz0R

💰 UK pensions (£3trn) are still backing fossil fuels—even as climate shocks threaten to wreck the economy and our retirements. We back an amendment to the Pensions Schemes Bill to ban thermal coal + review fossil fuel risk. Here's my NZI piece on this: lnkd.in/es9cc4gY