3 h. ago Home Bargains billionaire is officially the richest Scouser who ever lived

The latest Sunday Times rich list has been published and shows how tycoon, Tom Morris holds one of the top spots after rising up from humble beginnings to create the much-loved store

Society

17 h. ago The Guardian view on billionaire Britain: tax wealth fairly or face democratic unravelling | Editorial

Without bold reform which makes the rich pull their weight, rising inequality risks eroding public trust and fracturing social stabilityBritain for the last decade has experienced a bleak paradox: rising child poverty alongside a dramatic increase in billionaire wealth. This inequality has been tolerated partly because greed has been rehabilitated as virtue. The Billionaire Britain report, published this week by the Equality Trust, reveals what many instinctively feel but few in parliament will admit: the UK economy has become a machine for the upward redistribution of wealth.Using Sunday Times Rich List data, the report found that the 50 wealthiest UK families now own more than the poorest half of the population combined. Their opulence is no accident. It’s largely built on the labour and consumption of those 34 million other Britons. The gains of society are being hoarded by those least in need. There’s a lexicon that sells it all as “entrepreneurial spirit” and bus...

Economics

69 h. ago Derek and Quentin, twins from Indiana who live in the woods: Robin de Puy’s best photograph

‘I spotted them in a town called Elkhart, jumped out of the car and ran towards them. If you didn’t know their story, you might think they were runners or cyclists. Then you see the tattoos’My first trip photographing Americans was in 2015, when I drove 8,000 miles across the country on a Harley-Davidson. I’d spent too long caught up in assignments and wanted to take some time off from commercial and editorial work to follow my own creative urges. America offered an opportunity to explore a landscape I didn’t know, and was far enough away from my home in the Netherlands to ensure it wouldn’t be easy for me to just go back if things got difficult.I think Europeans often don’t understand how tough life in America can be. I wanted to show real, underrepresented people who are just trying to survive, while also drawing attention to how rich their lives can be. At a time when people seem increasingly polarised in their views, my images seek to challenge the assumptions that often divide ...

Culture

7 d. ago Welsh billionaire you've probably never heard of who wasn't on the Sunday Times Rich List

Gren Thomas grew up in Swansea and was working underground in south Wales at the age of 16. He left the country to find his fortune, and ended up finding diamonds....

Politics

7 d. ago It’s not a rich list – it’s gone far beyond that. We need to talk about ‘extreme wealth’ | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

We recognise extreme poverty as ruinous, but this turbo-charged affluence is deeply damaging too. Treat it as suchDhananjayan Sriskandarajah is chief executive of the New Economics Foundation and author of Power to the PeopleOnce again, it’s the Hinduja family. Gopi Hinduja and his family, who run the Hinduja Group, are cited as Britain’s richest family in the latest Sunday Times rich list. The big story so far seems to be that their wealth has dropped to £35.3bn from £37.2bn the year before. But that story, and much of the discussion there will be this weekend, risks missing the real story. “Rich list” is barely the right description for the extreme wealth we should be talking about.In 1989, when the Sunday Times first published its annual rich list, to be included someone would need to have 6,000 times the wealth of the average person in the UK. That’s already a pretty big gap – but this has now tripled to more than 18,000 times the average, according to a study by the University ...

Events

7 d. ago King Charles is now as rich as Rishi Sunak as his wealth jumps £30m to £640m

The monarch has jumped up the Sunday Times Rich List thanks to the wad of inheritance he got from his late mum when she died and is now worth more than half a billion quid

Economics

7 d. ago Rory McIlroy's huge net worth now after shock divorce twist and tennis star break

The Northern Irish golfer's current wealth has been revealed in the new Sunday Times Rich List

Events

7 d. ago Andy Murray and wife Kim's new net worth emerges after losing huge sum in hotel

The former tennis star features on the new Sunday Times Rich List after retiring from the sport last year

Politics

7 d. ago Who is Gopi Hinduja? Businessman tops Sunday Times Rich List

The businessman and his family are worth £35 billion according to The Sunday Times Rich List 2025

Politics

7 d. ago Time for a wealth tax, say Patriotic Millionaires as Rich List shows £772bn in the hands of just 350 families

Call comes after the the 2025 Sunday Times Rich List revealed the annual catalogue of Britain’s wealthiest people

Economics

8 d. ago King Charles' staggering fortune revealed and why he's twice as rich as late Queen

Calculations by the Sunday Times Rich List has suggested that King Charles is richer than David and Victoria Beckham - and even his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II

Politics

8 d. ago The Beckhams' astronomical net worth is revealed in the latest Rich List amid their ongoing feud with eldest son Brooklyn and wife Nicola Peltz

The Beckhams' astronomical net worth has been revealed after the Sunday Times dropped their annual Rich List highlighting the wealthiest stars of 2025.

Politics

8 d. ago Sunday Times Rich List 2025: The richest celebrities, musicians and famous faces

A number of celebrities and famous faces feature in the annual rich list - including David and Victoria Beckahm and Harry Styles

Politics

8 d. ago Who is the richest person in Britain 2025? Here are Britain's 11 wealthiest billionaires

There are significantly fewer billionaires in the UK than last year, but The Sunday Times rich list shows just how much extreme wealth still exists.

Economics

8 d. ago Paul McCartney, Ed Sheeran and Elton John among musicians named on Sunday Times Rich List for 2025

Only a handful of musicians were featured on the annual wealth ranking

Politics

8 d. ago Who are the 10 richest people in London? Landlords, gamers, and steel tycoons make the list

Gopi Hinduja and his family tops the list for the fourth year in a row.

Politics

8 d. ago Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari move pays dividends as net worth shoots up to almost £400m

Lewis Hamilton is not only one of Britain's most successful sports stars, he's also one of the wealthiest, as his lofty position in this year's Sunday Times Rich List demonstrates

Economics

8 d. ago Times Rich List: the UK's 19 richest people on 2025 Sunday Times Rich List

Britain's billionaires aren’t immune to the squeeze, and some are slipping down the list 📉

Politics

8 d. ago Beckhams get huge boost and surprise reality star leads celebs on Sunday Times Rich List

David and Victoria Beckham have received a huge boost amid their family fallout as the Sunday Times Rich List features a surprise reality TV star with a huge bank balance

Politics

8 d. ago King Charles’ wealth jumps £30m in 2025 – making him as rich as Sunak and wife

The monarch has seen a considerable rise on this year’s list of richest Brits

Economics