Nigeria, Jan. 26 -- It's official. This tormented, heated, traumatised planet is now home to over 3,000 billionaires. (That number was reached last year.) In October 2025, Elon Musk became the first man to have wealth exceeding half a trillion dollars. These developments could still take alongside the fact that one in four people across the globe face hunger.

Oxfam's Resisting the Rule of the Rich has, as its subtitle, "defending freedom against billionaire power". It's an important link, as money, rather than knowledge, tends to be the indicator of raw power. In her foreword to the report, the Secretary General of Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard, links the stirrings of authoritarianism with the pains of inequality. They were nei...