Ewan McGaughey

Ramp up the pressure on Andy Burnham: weownit.org.uk/StopTheBailout

Water privatisation MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE. If you want to see why, just look at Thames Water. @ewanmg.bsky.social It is time to end that madness by blocking the Thames Water bailout by Thursday 29th Oct Andy Burnham, block the bailout: vist.ly/5pe73

The budget is in exactly 6 days - Chancellor John Healey can use the budget to end water privatisation - @ewanmg.bsky.social In the meantime, Andy Burnham can end Thames Water privatisation by blocking their new bailout by Thursday 29th Oct Sign the petition NOW: vist.ly/5pftv

We should take our water into public ownership WITHOUT COMPENSATION - starting with Thames Water. Spot on @ewanmg.bsky.social Andy Burnham has a real opportunity to achieve this now by blocking the Thames Water bailout by Thursday 29th Oct Sign the petition NOW: vist.ly/5pdj7

Private water companies are trying to scare us off of public ownership as @ewanmg.bsky.social EXPOSES here Andy Burnham MUST take our water into public hands starting with Thames Water We have until Oct 29th to stop the Thames Water bailout vist.ly/5pck5

Clean, running water is something we can have tomorrow if we choose - instead of broken, high bill, privatised water of today. I explained how to do it to the Environment Committee here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=br5F...

Public ownership of water is way better than privatisation. Here's why. Andy Burnham MUST block the Thames Water bailout and bring it into public ownership. Sign the petition NOW: vist.ly/5pavf

Private water companies are working extra hard to convince the public not to nationalise them Thames Water's creditors are meeting on Thursday 29th Oct to decide on yet another bailout at our expense Andy Burnham MUST block the bailout. Sign the petition NOW: https://vist.ly/5p7r7

“The government’s best option is to start a special admin process for Thames Water before it… sends billions more overseas. An orderly transition to public ownership does not require that banks in control are bailed out… the law says polluters should pay.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Central banks can't reopen the Strait of Hormuz by forcing mortgagees + renters to pay more interest/rent. When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Reserve Bank of Australia is currently clobbering the poorest even more, worsening the cost of living. www.ft.com/content/5c1d...

My report on fixing the water system is out with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social: 💦transfer the leakiest, polluting companies to public hands for £0 🌊audit the rest to gauge repair costs, and public ownership is likely to cost £12bn, saving up to £1.4bn in 3 years www.common-wealth.org/publications...

Every business vehicle should be EV, by law - petrol and diesel just cost our economy too much. For households, if your next car is not an EV, you are spending 9 times more than you need on fuel. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

“The government has solid legal grounds to take decisive action” @ewanmg.bsky.social Professor of Law at King’s College London, says the state can intervene under the Water Industry Act 1991, citing breaches of statutory duties and neglect of infrastructure 💯 www.ft.com/content/527d...

The second batch of our '100 Ideas for 100 Days of the Burnham Government' just dropped. After week one's democratic reform, devolution, immigration, foreign policy & defence, week 2 focuses on tax, inequality, ownership, technology & sustainability. www.compassonline.org.uk/100-ideas-fo...

Incredible after everything that was thrown at ULEZ, to stop it, including during the Uxbridge by-election. I for one am glad that our children will be healthier and have bigger lungs by ending London's toxic air. Much more to do, electrifying every vehicle soon: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

With the new Premier League payroll data up, here's what the teams get - the £s spent per club, against the points they win. Six big teams really dominate. The relegation zone teams often fall back. So money buys points (unless it's my team, Spurs, it feels like!) + real a competition is lacking.

Our young people are our future. They are smarter, kinder, better than I was at their age. And they will help us meet this moment. My alumni address at the Kings College London graduation last week.

I really hope the courts see sense and TfL win their £1 billion claim against auto-makers, because it’s not just about the money. European auto manufacturers have been driving lung deaths, climate damage and their own competitive demise by failure to go electric. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

TONIGHT! Compass Members can join our Deputy Director, Lena, as we get into the nitty gritty on a topic incredibly close to Compass' heart: public ownership of water. With @cathobbs.bsky.social and @ewanmg.bsky.social!

How can labour rights boost real economic growth - by which I mean real household wealth (not just GDP)? Find out in my new Industrial Law Journal article - open access. It's how we reverse British history's worst wage cuts since 2008. Hint: more worker voice...👇 academic.oup.com/ilj/advance-...

"From July 1, 2026, households in New South Wales, South Australia, and southeastern Queensland can access at least three hours of free electricity each day through a new initiative called the Solar Sharer Offer" via No One Cares

'More than half of the free school meal pupils in inner London had entered higher education by age 19, compared with just 18.4 per cent in the south-west of England.' (Research Professional News, 8 am Playbook) Great time to cut course provision in the south-west of England, then.

German efficiency you say? Never with @deutschebahn.com! Here is a whole carriage blocked off because AC isn’t working, yet it’s 19 degrees outside and the carriage is hotter than the others, and 41 minutes late and counting. A basket case of privatisation ideology and bureaucracy.

Just another morning with @deutschebahn.com - nearly every train massively late by time it’s due to leave from Berlin Central Station DB was broken up into over 2000 entities before a planned privatisation and is among the most incompetently operated in the world - always late.

My new article, Executive control of labour rights: the dangerous path of the Employment Rights Act 2025, is open access! We have too many Henry VIII powers to change workers' rights. It poses big risks from an extremist govt, like Reform or post-Truss Tories.👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excellent to see now two Ministers, more Labour MPs, and departments boycotting X - a conspiracy, union busting and Nazi salute laced Pravda project for the world’s richest K-Hole. Next every Minister, university, trade union, journalist and civil society group. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Excellent to see now two Ministers, more Labour MPs, and departments boycotting X - a conspiracy, union busting and Nazi salute laced Pravda project for the world’s richest K-Hole. Next every Minister, university, trade union, journalist and civil society group. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

If companies can't run data centres without polluting our air and water, pushing up energy bills, abusing workers' rights, harming local communities or wrecking the climate – then they shouldn't be allowed to run them A safe climate and healthy environment are necessities – tech bro profits aren't

I remember a pledge for public ownership of Royal Mail, instead of selling it to a Czech multi-billionaire.

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EXC: Britain's biggest trade union endorses Ed Miliband for chancellor. Others expected to follow. Sets up an inter-union battle, with GMB and Unite opposing Miliband. (Side note - have we ever had explicit union endorsements for chancellor before?) t.co/MtmtZJMFtv

Did you know that the UK has among the worst paid holiday rights in the OECD? And that the US has no right to paid holidays at all? We have just 28 paid holidays a year - but no right to paid leave on public holidays. Spain does best with 44 paid holidays a year (incl. 14 public holidays).

Did you know that the UK has among the worst paid holiday rights in the OECD? And that the US has no right to paid holidays at all? We have just 28 paid holidays a year - but no right to paid leave on public holidays. Spain does best with 44 paid holidays a year (incl. 14 public holidays).

Tory Victoria Atkins on #Newsnight spouting nonsense that taking Thames Water into public ownership costs up to £20bn. Her own ex-government was going to cut up to 40% of debt - before the scale of the £23bn repair costs were clear. Wall St vultures deserve £0. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Exc: First Government department quits Twitter over racism and violence concerns Richard Hermer sent a directive to staff last week saying the Attorney General's Office would be coming off the platform observer.co.uk/news/politic...

One thing's for sure - it's not going to cost £100 billion. Closer to zero for failed companies like Thames Water, where reckless Wall Street vulture funds have run up £20bn in debt, left £23bn in repairs + profited with shareholders £23bn since 1989. www.ft.com/content/8288...

New rule: we call it “Fifa corruption break” instead of hydration break.

“DEFRA est the cost of nationalising the entire water sector at approx £100bn ... Common Wealth challenged this figure, arguing the ‘true cost in law’ is closer to 0” Our work by @ewanmg.bsky.social on bringing water into public hands in New Civil Engineer 👇 www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/repor...

Universities need to take these KPMG hallucinations on board on multiple levels, including the use of consultancies to plan for their future shape, size and operations and their approaches toward embedding AI into research, learning and assessment. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables

📢Abstracts are invited for the European Journal of Industrial Relations Special Issue on 'Quantifying the Global Business Environment.' Papers welcome on B-READY, labour indicators, the World Bank in international/domestic labour policy etc. Deadline: 29th June. Further info: shorturl.at/mE8tT

Laos bans petrol and diesel vehicle imports till end of 2026. As EVs become cheaper upfront - and are dramatically cheaper to charge up compared to petrol/diesel - why should we keep harming business, consumers + public long-term by selling more obsolete cars? www.eco-business.com/news/laos-su...

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Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

Q: How do you get "growth" without innovation, and how do you get innovation without funding public research? A: You don't. The UK has the worst public funding for uni + skills in the OECD, pay for starting lecturers down 25% since 2010, and that's why we are losing to countries abroad.

It's only fair landlords are subject to the same taxes as everyone else. Extending National Insurance to cover them could raise £3.2bn to spend on public services. Check out the coverage of our proposal in the @telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/ne...

Collective bargaining is in decline, especially in many low-paying sectors. In hospitality, only 3% of workers are union members and only 9% of jobs are covered by a collective agreement. Read our latest research: buff.ly/3xOPY6g

Great video with @robinwigglesworth.ft.com youtu.be/sYA-z0Y8WRQ?...