Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

As Mamdani wins NYC by a landslide, we must ask, why is democratic socialism so successful - indeed across all wealthy democracies? My talk unpacks the theories of capitalism's failures, and DS's 3 main goals: common ownership, economic democracy, and fair taxes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSZ9...

As Mamdani wins NYC by a landslide, we must ask, why is democratic socialism so successful - indeed across all wealthy democracies? My talk unpacks the theories of capitalism's failures, and DS's 3 main goals: common ownership, economic democracy, and fair taxes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSZ9...

“That’s right - HS2 have been forced to build a two-lane, state-of-the-art, multi-million pound road bridge to join what is essentially an overgrown footpath to a sort of bridleway with delusions of grandeur.” Wow: martinrobbins.substack.com/p/how-hs2-bu... m.youtube.com/watch?v=qNPF...

This is great to see, but should apply to all grounds of discrimination - not just sexual harassment. Regulating just one area is going to create a mess.

“Democratic socialism and the law” was my inaugural lecture - now on YouTube, with slides!👇🏽 Are democracy and socialism compatible? And what is its relation to the law? It runs through basic critiques of capitalism + sets out 3 main goals of democratic socialism today. m.youtube.com/watch?v=WSZ9...

Kudos to the Guardian for reporting on research published in the European Journal of Political Research. Also: how many more studies on this do we need before centrist parties begin to rethink their strategies? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Peter Thiel says that Carl Schmitt helped him form the core of his beliefs. Anyone who knows Schmitt, and who knows how much money and influence Thiel has, knows this is not great. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🌹 "Democratic socialism and the law" is the topic of my inaugural lecture - next Wednesday 6.30pm, Great Hall, King's College, London. ➡️ Come along! There's even a reception afterwards. Check out the abstract, and register free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help. This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Important work on inequality changing children’s brain structure from @divyangana.bsky.social and colleagues. Best ways to reduce inequality: 1. Fair pay agreements for every sector 2. Abolish two child benefit cap, for universal social security 3. Fair tax. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Seems like you’ve got another big tech media takeover by the far right. I guess that will be good for Republicans getting votes during elections.

Harmonising NICs, and raising income tax for the wealthy is essential. The 2% difference in NICs between employees and the self-employed creates a big incentive for sham-self-employment, like Deliveroo and Uber carriers. + wealthier people should pay fair tax. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Don't miss tomorrow's event with @thomaspiketty.bsky.social on global #inequality including preliminary results from the #GlobalJusticeProject. 📍In-person and online public event 🎟️ Registration www.lse.ac.uk/events/globa... @lsepress.bsky.social

“The ‘true cost in law’ of nationalising the UK water sector is far lower than the government’s figure and is in fact ‘closer to zero’, according to a report from the think tank Common Wealth.” Our briefing with @ewanmg.bsky.social featured in @social.newcivilengineer.com 🔗👇

Wealthier democracies have mail, transport, energy + water in public ownership. We still don't. We can keep paying £bns to foreign shareholders, or we can have faster mail and transport, clean energy and water, for lower cost. But we can't do both. 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

📘 Come to my inaugural lecture "Democratic socialism and the law", 6.30pm, 15 October: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-... 🌹 What role does the law play in democratic socialism? It rewires the defects of contract, property, corporate law + residual ‘capitalist’ elements of our law, and more... 👇

📘 Come to my inaugural lecture "Democratic socialism and the law", 6.30pm, 15 October: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-... 🌹 What role does the law play in democratic socialism? It rewires the defects of contract, property, corporate law + residual ‘capitalist’ elements of our law, and more... 👇

To make sure AI serves workers—not just tech monopolies—we need bold action: corporate regulation, worker voice, and sectoral bargaining. Read more from @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social on the scale of #AI concentration in a new blog w/ @eop.aspeninstitute.org ⤵️ www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/w...

"Corporate law, although always far from perfect, was supposed to ensure that the titans of industry acted lawfully and in the best interests of not only the stockholders, but their companies. Now, it seems, Delaware has opted for backsliding." Don't miss this great new post by Kate Jackson!

"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress

New Mexico is getting universal pre school childcare, like the next NYC mayor promises. Over 60 years since Eleanor Roosevelt called for it, this is key to ending the gender pay gap. In the UK we now have 30 hours free, but lack public nurseries + proper pay for staff. www.krqe.com/news/politic...

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Petrol and diesel, gas and coal power stations, or toxic rubbish incinerators are leading causes of dementia. So, we need 100% electric vehicles, all solar, wind and clean electricity generation, and for supermarkets to stop producing plastic waste. Easy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What should be publicly owned, or privatised? @ewanmg.bsky.social builds develops a theory of when public or private ownership leads to better outcomes, using comparative data from OECD countries in sectors such as water, rail, electricity, and telecommunications ▶️ wid.world/news-article...

What should be publicly owned, or privatised? We have a century of data on what works, so we should be able to get beyond ideology + build an evidence-based theory. New paper from me looks at theory since Adam Smith + maps OECD outcomes. Download + please repost!👇 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“In many ways water privatisation has been the greatest failure of the wholesale sell-off of govt utilities”. — @thetimes.com But public ownership *doesn’t* have to “burden the Govt with a huge debt”. @ewanmg.bsky.social explains how we can bring water back into public hands at a low cost 👇

Big news- the major Australian union body is calling for a 3 day weekend.

“If you want an advert for why private companies shouldn’t be involved in certain sectors, this is it.” Privateers have run Thames Water into the ground. This is delaying the inevitable. Relying on the same model to fix what they broke is madness.

The public deserve real solutions — not temporary fixes. When essential services are owned by the public, problems are fixed — not profited from. The true cost of bringing water into public ownership is close to 0. Our recent briefing by @ewanmg.bsky.social 👇 www.common-wealth.org/publications...

We did the largest crowdfund in UK law history to stop pension cuts + divest fossil fuels from the Universities Superannuation Scheme. We settled after the Court of Appeal - USS had folded and restored the pension. But we lost on fossil fuels - here's the story 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

🎓 Out now is my new paper on 'Social Infrastructure Law in the UK, US and EU'. It focuses on the data in achieving the human rights to free university, universal health care, and the central bank's role in full employment (and fair wages and housing). 👉 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

And what on earth does “beyond ignites curiousity” mean anyway, even if they spelled curiosity correctly?! “Warwick ignited dictionary” more like it. 😄

On people's decline in being dependable or disciplined, especially 16-39 year olds, another super article by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. Think of people cancelling appointments last minute, not doing what they promised, being late. Think of smart phone addiction + narcissism. www.ft.com/content/5cd7...

The Bank of England cut interest rates to 4%, when the European Central Bank rate is 2.15% This is bad for every paying mortgages + renters whose landlords pass on the costs. The Bank of England Act 1998 should prioritise reducing living costs, and raising real wages...🧵 www.ft.com/content/236c...

Interesting story but it's a pretty glaring omission that the FT doesn't give us the *total* number of company directors on the register (about 8 million I think).

This paper shows we should abolish the REF, which wastes £471 million, plus distracts vastly more from academic time. It has nearly identical outcomes in allocating funding as if we simply gave out money by citations (or indeed a per student formula). 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

Letter on the true price and benefits of public water in @theguardian.com. It’s £0 for a failed water company, not £100bn as the Treasury, Steve Reed, and water company lobbyists falsely claim. The cost of privatisation will be £22bn extra in 5 years. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Germany is deliberately alternating between positive and negative growth each quarter just to mock those fixated on the technical definition of a recession.

@ec.europa.eu proposes partial suspension of Israel's association to Horizon Europe ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

EVs Surpass 60% of New Car Sales in Ethiopia in 2024. Africa is shifting away from oil faster than some countries in Western world. birrmetrics.com/evs-surpass-...

Tom Lehrer died today. He was one of the great comedians our culture ever produced. Without Tom, there's no Weird Al, probably no that entire branch of comedy. He went alone and beat the odds. youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...

I love women’s football - England wins here!

Here's some more craziness from the waste of tax money in Higher Education: state R&D spending is huge, but pouring it into a collapsing system risks just pouring loads of it away. Making everything dependent on a Wild West of undergrad recruitment has gone spectacularly wrong.

It costs £0 to make a failed water co. public. Privatised water will cost £22bn in the next 5 years. We must fulfil Keir Starmer's 2020 pledge to make water public, not be blocked by the Treasury saying there's no money. No more bailouts for shareholders, banks + polluters. @skynewsrss.bsky.social

A new water "super regulator" should have to secure profit for shareholders and banks, just like Ofwat, says the government appointed Cunliffe Review. This isn't the change British people want: (1) clean water, (2) fair bills, (3) water in the public interest, not for private greed. Me on SkyNews👇

1/9 Steve Reed and his £100bn: a timeline. Steve Reed says he won’t nationalise the water industry, because it would cost £100bn. 👀So where does that figure come from?👀 He claims that it comes from his own department. 🚨But it looks like it came from the private water companies. #ComeCleanSteve

🚰🧵 We have heard a lot of claims about the potential cost of public ownership but not much on the actually existing cost of privatisation. This chart - from Ofwat's most recent Price Review - shows the scale: £22 billion in the next five years.

Minister Steve Reed said water “pollution levels in Scotland are worse” than England yesterday, and so it makes no difference if water is publicly owned or privatised. No Steve, that’s what water company lobbyists or failed Defra officials have fed you. Here’s the reality:

Steve Reed is right. We should focus on facts. So let's start with 8 claims made to @krishgm.bsky.social 1. The ⁠£100bn figure. This makes no sense & is not credibly evidenced. The true & fair value in law is close to zero. Expert @ewanmg.bsky.social unpacks www.common-wealth.org/publications...