About this site — and how every claim is checked

Who Owns Britain is an independent, one-person fact library. It documents the public claims of the economist and campaigner Gary Stevenson (GarysEconomics) about UK wealth inequality, and checks each one against primary sources. It is not affiliated with Gary Stevenson, any political party, or any campaign.

Why this site exists

Millions of people hear claims about British wealth inequality — on YouTube, in interviews, in arguments — and have no easy way to check them. Fact-checks of this material are scattered, partial, or paywalled. This site does one thing: for each significant claim, it answers the question a sceptic would actually ask, states a verdict, and links the primary sources so you can verify every number yourself without trusting us.

Methodology

Each page starts from a claim made publicly by Gary Stevenson. We then check it against primary sources: the Office for National Statistics, the Office for Statistics Regulation, the Wealth Tax Commission, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Oxfam, and official government statistics. Every number on every page carries a link to where it comes from.

Verdicts are stated plainly, including when they cut against the subject. Where a claim is only partly supported — for example, Stevenson’s corroborated $35m trading profit versus his disputed “best trader in the world” title — the page says exactly which part stands and which part is contested. Where the official data itself is unreliable, we document that too.

Independence and funding

The site is independently run and takes no money from any party, campaign, or media organisation. There is no advertising, no paywall, and no selling of data. We use Google Analytics to see which pages help people most, and nothing more.

Corrections

If any number on this site does not match its cited source, or a better primary source exists, we want to know and we will fix it. Every page lists its sources precisely so errors are findable.