The super-rich

Excessive wealth, extreme emissions – and ecocide: what I learned at Europe’s big superyacht show

by The Guardian | Oct 20, 2026 | Economics, Environment, Europe, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Monaco, Oceans, Pollution, The Guardian, The super-rich, Travel and transport, Vladimir Putin | 0 |

These yachts are highly popular with the ‘super-bourgeoisie’ – and getting bigger. Can anything be done to stop them destroying our seas?Who knew? Apparently everyone did, apart from me: you don’t wear shoes on a superyacht....

How a South African billionaire is turning a corner of Somerset into ‘one man’s estate’

by The Guardian | Oct 10, 2026 | Business, England, Environment, Farming, Hospitality industry, Somerset, The Guardian, The super-rich, UK news | 0 |

Koos Bekker’s Newt estate encompasses luxury hotels, pubs and high street business, with local concerns including floodingWhen South African billionaire Koos Bekker bought an old country estate in a sleepy corner of Somerset to...

‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left

by The Guardian | Oct 7, 2026 | Budget 2026, Capital gains tax, Inheritance tax, Labour, London, Monaco, Politics, Tax and spending, Tax havens, The Guardian, The super-rich, UK news | 0 |

TaxWatch research contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodusApparent exodus of super-rich suggests UK is no longer billionaires’ playgroundWhen the Sunday Times broke the news...

‘People are deserting it’: why are London mansions struggling to sell?

by The Guardian | Oct 3, 2026 | Business, House prices, Housing market, London, Mansion tax, Money, Politics, Property, Real estate, Tax and spending, The Guardian, The super-rich, UK news | 0 |

For decades, the capital’s house prices raced ahead of the national average – but now they are falling in prime areasAn elegant Georgian facade, a full-width balcony and an exclusive address in South Kensington just steps from...

UK trade unions warn against ‘Americanisation of our politics’ from big political donations

by The Guardian | Sep 15, 2026 | Labour, Party funding, Politics, Reform UK, The Guardian, The super-rich, Trade unions, TUC | 0 |

Bosses call union funding ‘cleanest money in politics’ as they stop short of backing cap after Reform UK given £72mUK politics live – latest updatesTrade unions have stopped short of backing a cap on political donations but...

Why crypto-billionaires love Reform – podcast

by The Guardian | Sep 14, 2026 | Cryptocurrencies, General elections, Party funding, Politics, Reform UK, The Guardian, The super-rich | 0 |

Reform UK have just been showered with £72m in donations by billionaires. What does that money buy and what will the party do with it? Peter Walker explainsOn Friday Ben Delo, a 42-year-old businessman – and convicted criminal –...

Trade unions, MPs and donors urge Burnham to revisit party funding rules

by The Guardian | Sep 13, 2026 | Andy Burnham, Angela Rayner, Christopher Harborne, Labour, Party funding, Politics, Reform UK, The Guardian, The super-rich, Trade unions, UK news | 0 |

PM has so far declined to insert curbs on UK-based donors, despite £72m donations from billionaires to Reform UK UK politics live – latest updatesTrade unions, MPs and donors have urged the government to look again at party...

Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire

by The Guardian | Sep 11, 2026 | Party funding, Politics, Reform UK, The Guardian, The super-rich, UK news | 0 |

Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by TrumpReform has been given a record £36m donation by Ben Delo, a British cryptocurrency billionaire convicted in the...

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

by The Guardian | Aug 5, 2026 | AI (artificial intelligence), Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Far right (US), Life and style, OpenAI, Palantir, Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley, Social networking, Technology, The far right, The Guardian, The super-rich | 0 |

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable themIn April, Gil Durán was permanently banned...

Wealth tax on UK’s super-rich could raise £10bn a year, Andy Burnham told

by The Guardian | Jul 21, 2026 | Andy Burnham, Business, Economics, Politics, Tax and spending, The Guardian, The super-rich, UK news | 0 |

New prime minister urged to introduce 2% minimum charge on households with more than £100m in wealthA wealth tax on the UK’s super-rich households could raise £10bn a year, according to academics who urged Andy Burnham to...

Two tickets for Wimbledon Centre Court? That’ll be £586,000 please

by The Guardian | Jun 27, 2026 | Sport, Tennis, The Guardian, The super-rich, UK news, Wimbledon, Wimbledon 2026 | 0 |

A pair of debenture tickets changed hands this week for a sum far beyond the means of ordinary tennis fansLike many of us, Marcos Ortega enters the Wimbledon public ticket ballot every year in the hope of seeing some...

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

by The Guardian | Jun 7, 2026 | Biodiversity, Business, Butterflies, Environment, Inheritance tax, Investing, Scotland, Tax and spending, Tax avoidance, The Guardian, The super-rich, Trees and forests, UK news, Wildlife | 0 |

Attempt to turn a stretch of the English-Scottish border into a commercial forest exposes threat to habitats from wealthy investorsOn the English-Scottish border a small species of butterfly, the northern brown argus, has fended...

Category: The super-rich