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World’s most expensive everything for the rich: £1000 coq au vin

Are the rich buying these thousand-quid meals with the tax they’ll be saving when the top rate drops from 50 per cent? Or with their gargantuan bonuses? I’ve been banging on about obscene conspicuous consumption for a while now, especially during the increasing attacks on the poor in the midst of a triple-dip recession. We’ve

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We’re all in it together: no recession for the top 1 per cent

This bra costs £1.6 million in London’s Bond Street. Half a milion quid’s worth of handbags owned by one woman, bras costing £1.6 million, diamond encrusted EVERYTHING. The super-rich have never had it so good. I’m dizzy from all this high altitude spending while we have to juggle fixing pot-holes with keeping libraries open. The

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We’re all in it together: no recession for the top 1 per cent

This bra costs £1.6 million in London’s Bond Street. Half a milion quid’s worth of handbags owned by one woman, bras costing £1.6 million, diamond encrusted EVERYTHING. The super-rich have never had it so good. I’m dizzy from all this high altitude spending while we have to juggle fixing pot-holes with keeping libraries open. The

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