This index documents the datasets, sources, and computational assumptions behind the project.
Sources
MRP shows a Reform UK government a near certainty if an election were held tomorrow (YouGov, 2025)
The Good Life at the Top: Analysing The Sunday Times Rich List 1989–2023 (Tippet & Wildauer, 2023)
The Sunday Times Rich List (The Times, 2025)
United Kingdom Inflation Rate (Trading Economics, 2025)
Internal Policy Stances Survey (YouGov, 2021)
Don’t Blame Polarization (Jacobin, 2020)
Trump, MAGA, and the Far Right (Jacobin, 2022)
Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse (Stuart Hall, 1973)
Calculations
In this study, Tippet and Wildauer (2023) analysed a newly constructed dataset from The Sunday Times Rich List (1989–2023) and found that the wealth of the UK’s 200 richest families increased by an average of 11.6% per year in nominal terms.
Nominal growth rate = 11.6% per year
Total wealth of UK's richest 63 individuals = £466 billion = 466,000,000,000
Nominal growth rate: r = 11.6% = 0.116
Annual increase = W × r
466,000,000,000 × 0.116 = £54,056,000,000 per year
Per-second increase = £54,056,000,000 ÷ 31,536,000 = £1,714 per second
The UK’s richest 63 individuals accumulate £1,714 per second