Like the East Coast mainline, the differing setups within the UK offer a useful insight into claims by Britain's governing parties that privatised water is in any way superior to publicly owned. But it does offer some enormous profits.
Energy privatisation has failed - all over the world, there are examples of how to take it back into democratic control.
The EU/US Trade Deal poses a threat to Scottish Water's plans to deprivatise failing PFI facilities.
New analysis from We Own It shows just how big the gap has become between what the British public want for their public services and what Westminster wants.
In Bolivia, renationalisation of the hydrocarbon industry has been a huge economic success.
Democratising energy would not only save thousands of lives a year but would be a big step forward in saving the planet.
Calls to reform Ofsted don't go far enough - it's become a tool for the neoliberal take-over of our education, and needs to be replaced.
The rich tradition of alternative liberalism has much to offer by way of solutions to inexorably widening inequality—as social movements are beginning to realise.
The only woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics showed that democratic management of commons isn't just possible, but normal.
The Labour Party has just changed its position on TTIP - for the worse.
As the state retreats from funding the arts, corporate power creeps in - only to find itself exposed by new alliances of citizens.
When the Argentinian economy collapsed, lots of workers didn't believe that the things they made were no longer needed. And so they broke into their factories, and started making them again - only to prove they could run them better than their former bosses.
