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· Sep 16
Welcome to Rip-Off Britain.
A country remade by privatisation.
Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
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A country remade by privatisation.
Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
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The majority of Britain’s major rail operators are now owned by the public! 🎉
Success could help bring other essential services under democratic control.
Failure will embolden privatisation advocates across every sector.
Labour must get this right.
www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Success could help bring other essential services under democratic control.
Failure will embolden privatisation advocates across every sector.
Labour must get this right.
www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Most of Great Britain’s major rail operators are back in public hands – is it working?
Explore the Guardian’s tracker to see which operators are nationalised and if services are improving under public ownership
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:55 PM
The majority of Britain’s major rail operators are now owned by the public! 🎉
Success could help bring other essential services under democratic control.
Failure will embolden privatisation advocates across every sector.
Labour must get this right.
www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Success could help bring other essential services under democratic control.
Failure will embolden privatisation advocates across every sector.
Labour must get this right.
www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
“As the UK seeks to expand housing supply, we need ... viable and properly resourced communities ... taking back control of our water to invest in the infrastructure should be a critical part of this mission.”
@mathewlawrence.bsky.social quoted in @bigissue.com ⬇️
www.bigissue.com/news/environ...
@mathewlawrence.bsky.social quoted in @bigissue.com ⬇️
www.bigissue.com/news/environ...
Can we build enough reservoirs to escape the jaws of death?
Water demands from AI data centres is placing extra strain on our reservoirs, which are already in need of serious investment
www.bigissue.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:09 AM
“As the UK seeks to expand housing supply, we need ... viable and properly resourced communities ... taking back control of our water to invest in the infrastructure should be a critical part of this mission.”
@mathewlawrence.bsky.social quoted in @bigissue.com ⬇️
www.bigissue.com/news/environ...
@mathewlawrence.bsky.social quoted in @bigissue.com ⬇️
www.bigissue.com/news/environ...
Are reparations radical?
Kojo Koram speaks to Eleanor Shearer on the case for reparations.
For more on reparative justice and extractive capitalism in Caribbean, explore our visual project: https://visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
Kojo Koram speaks to Eleanor Shearer on the case for reparations.
For more on reparative justice and extractive capitalism in Caribbean, explore our visual project: https://visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
February 2, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Are reparations radical?
Kojo Koram speaks to Eleanor Shearer on the case for reparations.
For more on reparative justice and extractive capitalism in Caribbean, explore our visual project: https://visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
Kojo Koram speaks to Eleanor Shearer on the case for reparations.
For more on reparative justice and extractive capitalism in Caribbean, explore our visual project: https://visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
Publicly-owned buses across Britain have already reinvested profits back into networks, delivered high quality services & rising ridership numbers.
They're also innovators — leading the transition to electric buses & free Wi-Fi.
www.cityam.com/tfl-wants-to...
They're also innovators — leading the transition to electric buses & free Wi-Fi.
www.cityam.com/tfl-wants-to...
TfL wants to create a publicly owned bus company for London
If established, it would be the first major publicly owned bus company to operate in the capital for thirty years.
www.cityam.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Publicly-owned buses across Britain have already reinvested profits back into networks, delivered high quality services & rising ridership numbers.
They're also innovators — leading the transition to electric buses & free Wi-Fi.
www.cityam.com/tfl-wants-to...
They're also innovators — leading the transition to electric buses & free Wi-Fi.
www.cityam.com/tfl-wants-to...
“You are already aboard an economic vessel, squinting to see the future atop the forces of production. Your ship could be a business, a government agency, or ... nothing more than your wallet — you are already navigating, economically.”
Subscribe to our new newsletter. ⬇️
www.forcesofproduction.com
Subscribe to our new newsletter. ⬇️
www.forcesofproduction.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:52 PM
“You are already aboard an economic vessel, squinting to see the future atop the forces of production. Your ship could be a business, a government agency, or ... nothing more than your wallet — you are already navigating, economically.”
Subscribe to our new newsletter. ⬇️
www.forcesofproduction.com
Subscribe to our new newsletter. ⬇️
www.forcesofproduction.com
“We can think about the restructuring of the global economy to remove ... dependence, not just from foreign tourist industries but offshore financial centres & tax havens” — Kojo Koram
Explore our visual project on the Caribbean: https://visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
Explore our visual project on the Caribbean: https://visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
January 29, 2026 at 9:04 AM
“We can think about the restructuring of the global economy to remove ... dependence, not just from foreign tourist industries but offshore financial centres & tax havens” — Kojo Koram
Explore our visual project on the Caribbean: https://visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
Explore our visual project on the Caribbean: https://visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
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🚨Common Wealth is hiring a Production Officer.
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January 13, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Deadline extended
🗓️Applications close 10 AM (GMT) Monday 2 February.
🗓️Applications close 10 AM (GMT) Monday 2 February.
🚨Common Wealth is hiring a Production Officer.
Find out more and apply 👇
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January 15, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Deadline extended
🗓️Applications close 10 AM (GMT) Monday 2 February.
🗓️Applications close 10 AM (GMT) Monday 2 February.
“Single-family rentals now account for 40% of all investment in the booming build-to-rent sector.”
Read Adam Almeida in @theguardian.com on how the build-to-rent sector is changing — while the public still lose out to institutional investors.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Read Adam Almeida in @theguardian.com on how the build-to-rent sector is changing — while the public still lose out to institutional investors.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wall Street landlords have met a surprising opponent in Trump. So why is Starmer courting them? | Adam Almeida
To win votes, Trump can afford to face up to corporate power – to deliver his promised 1.5m homes, Starmer can’t, says writer and researcher Adam Almeida
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:30 AM
“Single-family rentals now account for 40% of all investment in the booming build-to-rent sector.”
Read Adam Almeida in @theguardian.com on how the build-to-rent sector is changing — while the public still lose out to institutional investors.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Read Adam Almeida in @theguardian.com on how the build-to-rent sector is changing — while the public still lose out to institutional investors.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are proud to announce the launch of Forces of Production — a new monthly newsletter tracking the supply side of the US economy.
But first: do you know where the US economy actually is right now? Not how it feels, but what it actually does all day?
Most don't. And that's the problem.
But first: do you know where the US economy actually is right now? Not how it feels, but what it actually does all day?
Most don't. And that's the problem.
January 21, 2026 at 4:59 PM
We are proud to announce the launch of Forces of Production — a new monthly newsletter tracking the supply side of the US economy.
But first: do you know where the US economy actually is right now? Not how it feels, but what it actually does all day?
Most don't. And that's the problem.
But first: do you know where the US economy actually is right now? Not how it feels, but what it actually does all day?
Most don't. And that's the problem.
Deadline extended
🗓️Applications close 10 AM (GMT) Monday 2 February.
🗓️Applications close 10 AM (GMT) Monday 2 February.
🚨Common Wealth is hiring a Production Officer.
Find out more and apply 👇
Find out more and apply 👇
January 15, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Deadline extended
🗓️Applications close 10 AM (GMT) Monday 2 February.
🗓️Applications close 10 AM (GMT) Monday 2 February.
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According to SIPRI, NATO’s five per cent target means increasing UK military and security spending by more than £130 billion per year from 2035.
The benefits of this will flow to the private shareholders of arms companies.
Watch our latest video 👇
The benefits of this will flow to the private shareholders of arms companies.
Watch our latest video 👇
January 15, 2026 at 10:28 AM
According to SIPRI, NATO’s five per cent target means increasing UK military and security spending by more than £130 billion per year from 2035.
The benefits of this will flow to the private shareholders of arms companies.
Watch our latest video 👇
The benefits of this will flow to the private shareholders of arms companies.
Watch our latest video 👇
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Europe has prioritised an arbitrary military spending target set by the US over climate investment.
This brought no leverage in the face of violations of international law but risks our collective safety amid the climate crisis.
Watch our video on Europe’s military industrial turn.
This brought no leverage in the face of violations of international law but risks our collective safety amid the climate crisis.
Watch our video on Europe’s military industrial turn.
January 14, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Europe has prioritised an arbitrary military spending target set by the US over climate investment.
This brought no leverage in the face of violations of international law but risks our collective safety amid the climate crisis.
Watch our video on Europe’s military industrial turn.
This brought no leverage in the face of violations of international law but risks our collective safety amid the climate crisis.
Watch our video on Europe’s military industrial turn.
🚨Common Wealth is hiring a Production Officer.
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January 13, 2026 at 2:45 PM
🚨Common Wealth is hiring a Production Officer.
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“The public have rightly had enough. They want the water industry to be a functioning and affordable essential service.
Water could be restored to public ownership at minimal cost ”.
Mathew Lawrence in @BigIssue.
www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/thames-water-nationalised-debt-water-bills/
Water could be restored to public ownership at minimal cost ”.
Mathew Lawrence in @BigIssue.
www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/thames-water-nationalised-debt-water-bills/
January 13, 2026 at 12:02 PM
“The public have rightly had enough. They want the water industry to be a functioning and affordable essential service.
Water could be restored to public ownership at minimal cost ”.
Mathew Lawrence in @BigIssue.
www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/thames-water-nationalised-debt-water-bills/
Water could be restored to public ownership at minimal cost ”.
Mathew Lawrence in @BigIssue.
www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/thames-water-nationalised-debt-water-bills/
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“Returning Venezuelan oil production to 1990s peak levels would result in five hundred million tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions... higher than the emissions of France, or the UK”.
New analysis from our Co-Director Patrick Bigger.
substack.com/@climatecomm...
New analysis from our Co-Director Patrick Bigger.
substack.com/@climatecomm...
Trump’s Illegal Invasion of Venezuela Forebodes an Environmental Disaster
Rebuilding Venezuelan oil production would produce new annual emissions higher than the carbon footprints of France, the UK, or Thailand
substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
“Returning Venezuelan oil production to 1990s peak levels would result in five hundred million tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions... higher than the emissions of France, or the UK”.
New analysis from our Co-Director Patrick Bigger.
substack.com/@climatecomm...
New analysis from our Co-Director Patrick Bigger.
substack.com/@climatecomm...
Our new project visualises extractive capitalism in the Caribbean.
Slavery & colonialism aren’t things that happened far away & long ago. We continue to live with their consequences.
🧵 Here’s how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
Slavery & colonialism aren’t things that happened far away & long ago. We continue to live with their consequences.
🧵 Here’s how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
January 6, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Our new project visualises extractive capitalism in the Caribbean.
Slavery & colonialism aren’t things that happened far away & long ago. We continue to live with their consequences.
🧵 Here’s how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
Slavery & colonialism aren’t things that happened far away & long ago. We continue to live with their consequences.
🧵 Here’s how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
“[O]ver the 400 years since the first English ships arrived in Barbados, empire engineered a system of wealth extraction that shapes the tourism economies of today.”
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
‘Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism
Research shows that the British colonial wealth extraction system still influences the region’s tourist industry
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:36 PM
“[O]ver the 400 years since the first English ships arrived in Barbados, empire engineered a system of wealth extraction that shapes the tourism economies of today.”
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
In our latest Centre for Democratising Work interview, Amelia Horgan spoke to @brunoleipold.com about his book, CITIZEN MARX, and Marx and republicanism.
Read here: www.common-wealth.org/centre-for-d...
Read here: www.common-wealth.org/centre-for-d...
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
In our latest Centre for Democratising Work interview, Amelia Horgan spoke to @brunoleipold.com about his book, CITIZEN MARX, and Marx and republicanism.
Read here: www.common-wealth.org/centre-for-d...
Read here: www.common-wealth.org/centre-for-d...
“The vast scale of US global military infrastructure continues to block the effort required to mitigate the climate crisis”.
Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com about how the Pentagon has stockpiled critical minerals needed for the energy transition.
www.ft.com/content/42ab...
Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com about how the Pentagon has stockpiled critical minerals needed for the energy transition.
www.ft.com/content/42ab...
Critical minerals should not be stockpiled for military use
The US is funnelling materials such as cobalt and graphite into national defence rather than new climate technologies
www.ft.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“The vast scale of US global military infrastructure continues to block the effort required to mitigate the climate crisis”.
Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com about how the Pentagon has stockpiled critical minerals needed for the energy transition.
www.ft.com/content/42ab...
Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com about how the Pentagon has stockpiled critical minerals needed for the energy transition.
www.ft.com/content/42ab...
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NEW: Read @stephensemler.bsky.social on how the expansion of the US warfare state has made the working class less secure.
Prioritising everyday security over military expansion is the right electoral strategy for progressives.
transitionsecurity.org/working-clas...
Prioritising everyday security over military expansion is the right electoral strategy for progressives.
transitionsecurity.org/working-clas...
Working Class Security
Expanding the US warfare state has made the working class less secure. Prioritising everyday security over military expansion is a better electoral strategy for progressives.
transitionsecurity.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
NEW: Read @stephensemler.bsky.social on how the expansion of the US warfare state has made the working class less secure.
Prioritising everyday security over military expansion is the right electoral strategy for progressives.
transitionsecurity.org/working-clas...
Prioritising everyday security over military expansion is the right electoral strategy for progressives.
transitionsecurity.org/working-clas...
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The Pentagon’s planned cobalt stockpile “could be used instead to produce 80.2 gigawatt hours of battery capacity — more than double the existing energy storage capacity in the US”.
Our research manager Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com.
Our research manager Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com.
Critical minerals should not be stockpiled for military use
The US is funnelling materials such as cobalt and graphite into national defence rather than new climate technologies
www.ft.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The Pentagon’s planned cobalt stockpile “could be used instead to produce 80.2 gigawatt hours of battery capacity — more than double the existing energy storage capacity in the US”.
Our research manager Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com.
Our research manager Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com.
“We all live in a world forged by empire. The question for all of us is – how do we remake it?”.
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
‘Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism
Research shows that the British colonial wealth extraction system still influences the region’s tourist industry
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“We all live in a world forged by empire. The question for all of us is – how do we remake it?”.
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Slavery & colonialism aren’t things that happened far away & long ago.
We continue to live with their consequences.
Our new project visualises extractive capitalism in the Caribbean.
🧵 This is how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
We continue to live with their consequences.
Our new project visualises extractive capitalism in the Caribbean.
🧵 This is how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
Visualising Extractive Capitalism
From the formation of the plantation slave economy to the modern-day climate crisis, we map how empire and extractive capitalism shaped Barbados, Britain and the wider world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
December 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Slavery & colonialism aren’t things that happened far away & long ago.
We continue to live with their consequences.
Our new project visualises extractive capitalism in the Caribbean.
🧵 This is how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
We continue to live with their consequences.
Our new project visualises extractive capitalism in the Caribbean.
🧵 This is how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
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🚨NEW ESSAY🚨: Read Rebekah Diski on trade union politics in an era of rearmament, genocide and climate breakdown.
transitionsecurity.org/bread-and-bu...
transitionsecurity.org/bread-and-bu...
Bread and Butter Is Not Enough
Trade unions are grappling with an era of rearmament and climate breakdown. Amid these crises, a renewed labour internationalism is needed.
transitionsecurity.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🚨NEW ESSAY🚨: Read Rebekah Diski on trade union politics in an era of rearmament, genocide and climate breakdown.
transitionsecurity.org/bread-and-bu...
transitionsecurity.org/bread-and-bu...