As many as one in six of the individuals and families who appeared on the 2024 ranking are missing from this year's edition, with the compiler warning that the figures lay bare the scale of Britain's wealth exodus. " Many foreign billionaires who have been living in the UK have... dropped out because they have moved away," Mr Watts said.
There is a particular kind of British cruelty that thrives on politeness. The 2018 Windrush scandal exposed this in full: rather than chaos or spectacle, it revealed a machinery of clinical decisions that stripped Black and brown people of their belonging with bureaucratic precision. It is now part of our national story, often spoken of in the abstract or invoked as a cautionary tale. But what can be obscured, in this telling, is the texture of the harm, the way complicated lives were reduced to paperwork.
Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan has denied Fianna Fáil is down and out ahead of two by-elections after his party colleague James Lawless said he would be "disappointed but not surprised" if the party lost both.
