Common Wealth
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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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🚨Read the latest in @transitionsec.bsky.social's geopolitics series — @mona-ali.bsky.social on the transformation of US trade policy and its effects on the world economy. 🚨
The US and China have agreed to a one-year truce in their trade war. What lies behind this conflict and what does it mean for the world economy?
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🚨Read the latest in @transitionsec.bsky.social's geopolitics series — @mona-ali.bsky.social on the transformation of US trade policy and its effects on the world economy. 🚨
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The US and China have agreed to a one-year truce in their trade war. What lies behind this conflict and what does it mean for the world economy?
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The US and China have agreed to a one-year truce in their trade war. What lies behind this conflict and what does it mean for the world economy?
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
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ICYMI, good stuff from the folks at @cmmonwealth.bsky.social.
A Lucas Plan for the Twenty First Century: From Asset Manager Arsenal to Green Industrial Strategy
Building on the Lucas Plan, a new industrial strategy can redirect productive capacity and skills from the military industry towards the development of green manufacturing.
transitionsecurity.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
ICYMI, good stuff from the folks at @cmmonwealth.bsky.social.
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🚨 NEW: Read @tobitac.bsky.social “Cold War on a Warming World” for sharp analysis of China’s economic development, its clean energy dominance and why Washington’s foreign policy response is a threat to global decarbonisation.
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Cold War on a Warming World
The US foreign policy response to China's economic development is a threat to the global climate transition.
transitionsecurity.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🚨 NEW: Read @tobitac.bsky.social “Cold War on a Warming World” for sharp analysis of China’s economic development, its clean energy dominance and why Washington’s foreign policy response is a threat to global decarbonisation.
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transitionsecurity.org/cold-war-war...
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transitionsecurity.org/cold-war-war...
New essay from @transitionsec.bsky.social on how the US foreign policy response to China’s economic development is a threat to global climate transition!
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🚨 NEW: Read @tobitac.bsky.social “Cold War on a Warming World” for sharp analysis of China’s economic development, its clean energy dominance and why Washington’s foreign policy response is a threat to global decarbonisation.
🔗👇
transitionsecurity.org/cold-war-war...
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transitionsecurity.org/cold-war-war...
Cold War on a Warming World
The US foreign policy response to China's economic development is a threat to the global climate transition.
transitionsecurity.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
New essay from @transitionsec.bsky.social on how the US foreign policy response to China’s economic development is a threat to global climate transition!
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The Renters' Rights Act became law last week - the biggest change to private renting in a generation.
Will it "transform the experience of private renting", like the government says?
This week's New Economy Brief takes a closer look: neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/a...
Will it "transform the experience of private renting", like the government says?
This week's New Economy Brief takes a closer look: neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/a...
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Renters' Rights Act became law last week - the biggest change to private renting in a generation.
Will it "transform the experience of private renting", like the government says?
This week's New Economy Brief takes a closer look: neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/a...
Will it "transform the experience of private renting", like the government says?
This week's New Economy Brief takes a closer look: neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/a...
“It is very easy to forget that society has massively changed in the past, and it can massively change again.”
The dual crises of climate breakdown and the growing unaffordability of essentials require a new approach.
We must plan for our future.
This is how.
The dual crises of climate breakdown and the growing unaffordability of essentials require a new approach.
We must plan for our future.
This is how.
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“It is very easy to forget that society has massively changed in the past, and it can massively change again.”
The dual crises of climate breakdown and the growing unaffordability of essentials require a new approach.
We must plan for our future.
This is how.
The dual crises of climate breakdown and the growing unaffordability of essentials require a new approach.
We must plan for our future.
This is how.
“A major focus for Common Wealth is building out a lefty response to the affordability crisis—one that isn’t just recapitulating the price-lowering strategy of neoliberalism.”
Our newly-launched Green Planning Commission covered in The Prospect 👇
🖊️ @ryanlcooper.com
prospect.org/2025/10/31/h...
Our newly-launched Green Planning Commission covered in The Prospect 👇
🖊️ @ryanlcooper.com
prospect.org/2025/10/31/h...
How Do We Rebuild After Trump? - The American Prospect
Many Trump critics are focused on what he is doing to our basic democratic compact. But there’s a reason that all the presidents who led us through our worst previous crises also had an aggressive pro...
prospect.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“A major focus for Common Wealth is building out a lefty response to the affordability crisis—one that isn’t just recapitulating the price-lowering strategy of neoliberalism.”
Our newly-launched Green Planning Commission covered in The Prospect 👇
🖊️ @ryanlcooper.com
prospect.org/2025/10/31/h...
Our newly-launched Green Planning Commission covered in The Prospect 👇
🖊️ @ryanlcooper.com
prospect.org/2025/10/31/h...
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So thrilled to be a part of the Green Planning Commission with so many smart progressive thinkers! I can't wait to support
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social in coordinating the future of climate policy.
Excited to bring progressive public finance to bear on our energy and affordability crises 😎☀️
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social in coordinating the future of climate policy.
Excited to bring progressive public finance to bear on our energy and affordability crises 😎☀️
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
So thrilled to be a part of the Green Planning Commission with so many smart progressive thinkers! I can't wait to support
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social in coordinating the future of climate policy.
Excited to bring progressive public finance to bear on our energy and affordability crises 😎☀️
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social in coordinating the future of climate policy.
Excited to bring progressive public finance to bear on our energy and affordability crises 😎☀️
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What if we invested in real security: good jobs, national defence, green industry, thriving communities?
Watch the full video on the Govan & Scotstoun shipyards & explore an interactive timeline of historic examples of industrial conversion below. 👇
transitionsecurity.org/green-clydes...
Watch the full video on the Govan & Scotstoun shipyards & explore an interactive timeline of historic examples of industrial conversion below. 👇
transitionsecurity.org/green-clydes...
Green Clydeside: Modelling Military Industrial Conversion
Military industrial conversion was a popular proposal in the twentieth century. What would it look like on the Clyde today?
transitionsecurity.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
What if we invested in real security: good jobs, national defence, green industry, thriving communities?
Watch the full video on the Govan & Scotstoun shipyards & explore an interactive timeline of historic examples of industrial conversion below. 👇
transitionsecurity.org/green-clydes...
Watch the full video on the Govan & Scotstoun shipyards & explore an interactive timeline of historic examples of industrial conversion below. 👇
transitionsecurity.org/green-clydes...
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“Between 2012-22, BAE Systems received £36bn in UK government contracts — more than one fifth of its global revenue.”
BAE buys armour plating from Plasan, which has given the Israeli military both free equipment and a maintenance team during their genocidal assault on Gaza.
BAE buys armour plating from Plasan, which has given the Israeli military both free equipment and a maintenance team during their genocidal assault on Gaza.
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“Between 2012-22, BAE Systems received £36bn in UK government contracts — more than one fifth of its global revenue.”
BAE buys armour plating from Plasan, which has given the Israeli military both free equipment and a maintenance team during their genocidal assault on Gaza.
BAE buys armour plating from Plasan, which has given the Israeli military both free equipment and a maintenance team during their genocidal assault on Gaza.
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"This is not stabilization—it is the active production of instability that justifies permanent external control."
LOLA ALLEN on Javier Milei, the IMF and the contradictions of Argentina's extractive economy.
Read the full essay👇
LOLA ALLEN on Javier Milei, the IMF and the contradictions of Argentina's extractive economy.
Read the full essay👇
Javier Milei and the Long Shadow of the IMF
In Argentina, economic chaos and political upheaval expose how the IMF’s stabilizing promise has become a mechanism of managed decline.
www.break-down.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"This is not stabilization—it is the active production of instability that justifies permanent external control."
LOLA ALLEN on Javier Milei, the IMF and the contradictions of Argentina's extractive economy.
Read the full essay👇
LOLA ALLEN on Javier Milei, the IMF and the contradictions of Argentina's extractive economy.
Read the full essay👇
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@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today!
I'm delighted to join the project as a Commissioner
I'm delighted to join the project as a Commissioner
🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
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https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
October 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today!
I'm delighted to join the project as a Commissioner
I'm delighted to join the project as a Commissioner
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PARTY UPDATE: we’ve moved our sold out Issue #2 launch party just around the corner to a larger venue and added a handful more tickets 🎈
Join us at the OCTOBER GALLERY on 7 Nov for readings + a party!
📍 October Gallery, WC1
🗓️ Fri 7 Nov, from 18:30
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...
Join us at the OCTOBER GALLERY on 7 Nov for readings + a party!
📍 October Gallery, WC1
🗓️ Fri 7 Nov, from 18:30
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...
October 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
PARTY UPDATE: we’ve moved our sold out Issue #2 launch party just around the corner to a larger venue and added a handful more tickets 🎈
Join us at the OCTOBER GALLERY on 7 Nov for readings + a party!
📍 October Gallery, WC1
🗓️ Fri 7 Nov, from 18:30
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...
Join us at the OCTOBER GALLERY on 7 Nov for readings + a party!
📍 October Gallery, WC1
🗓️ Fri 7 Nov, from 18:30
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-breakd...
“A raft of leading economists and thinkers from around the world are supporting a Green Planning Commission being launched today by the Common Wealth thinktank.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Tories call for Reeves to be sacked after breaking home rental rules but PM rules out investigation – UK politics live
Reeves has been renting out her south London home without the specific £945 licence required by the local council
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“A raft of leading economists and thinkers from around the world are supporting a Green Planning Commission being launched today by the Common Wealth thinktank.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
Join us TODAY to launch the Green Planning Commission, rethinking planning to recover a democratic & decarbonised future from the crises of our age.
🎙️ @cacrisalves.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
🎙️ @cacrisalves.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Join us TODAY to launch the Green Planning Commission, rethinking planning to recover a democratic & decarbonised future from the crises of our age.
🎙️ @cacrisalves.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
🎙️ @cacrisalves.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
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@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today, focused on countering the failure of markets to address the twin crises of climate + affordability. I'm honoured to be one of its Commissioners.
Check it out and follow their work!
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Check it out and follow their work!
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Only Green Planning Can Address the Twin Crises of Climate and Cost of Living
Governments must look beyond the market to address era-defining challenges.
www.common-wealth.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today, focused on countering the failure of markets to address the twin crises of climate + affordability. I'm honoured to be one of its Commissioners.
Check it out and follow their work!
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Check it out and follow their work!
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
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Really interesting thinking from the UK about how to democratise planning.
The power of very large corporations is going to be, in many cases, a big obstacle to these things happening.
So it's good to see that this agenda includes more democratic models of the firm, and international cooperation.
The power of very large corporations is going to be, in many cases, a big obstacle to these things happening.
So it's good to see that this agenda includes more democratic models of the firm, and international cooperation.
🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
October 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Really interesting thinking from the UK about how to democratise planning.
The power of very large corporations is going to be, in many cases, a big obstacle to these things happening.
So it's good to see that this agenda includes more democratic models of the firm, and international cooperation.
The power of very large corporations is going to be, in many cases, a big obstacle to these things happening.
So it's good to see that this agenda includes more democratic models of the firm, and international cooperation.
🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
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🚨 TOMORROW
Join us at The October Gallery in London as we launch the Green Planning Commission, a transatlantic initiative building a new era of democratic planning and recovering a democratic and decarbonised future from the crises of our age.
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
Join us at The October Gallery in London as we launch the Green Planning Commission, a transatlantic initiative building a new era of democratic planning and recovering a democratic and decarbonised future from the crises of our age.
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
October 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🚨 TOMORROW
Join us at The October Gallery in London as we launch the Green Planning Commission, a transatlantic initiative building a new era of democratic planning and recovering a democratic and decarbonised future from the crises of our age.
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
Join us at The October Gallery in London as we launch the Green Planning Commission, a transatlantic initiative building a new era of democratic planning and recovering a democratic and decarbonised future from the crises of our age.
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
🚨 TOMORROW
Join us at The October Gallery in London as we launch the Green Planning Commission, a transatlantic initiative building a new era of democratic planning and recovering a democratic and decarbonised future from the crises of our age.
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
Join us at The October Gallery in London as we launch the Green Planning Commission, a transatlantic initiative building a new era of democratic planning and recovering a democratic and decarbonised future from the crises of our age.
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
October 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🚨 TOMORROW
Join us at The October Gallery in London as we launch the Green Planning Commission, a transatlantic initiative building a new era of democratic planning and recovering a democratic and decarbonised future from the crises of our age.
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
Join us at The October Gallery in London as we launch the Green Planning Commission, a transatlantic initiative building a new era of democratic planning and recovering a democratic and decarbonised future from the crises of our age.
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
🎉 Join us in London to launch the Green Planning Commission — rethinking the politics & practice of planning for a democratic & decarbonised future
🎙️ Carolina Alves, @brusselermel.bsky.social, Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social
🪑 Sarah Nankivell
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
🎙️ Carolina Alves, @brusselermel.bsky.social, Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social
🪑 Sarah Nankivell
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🎉 Join us in London to launch the Green Planning Commission — rethinking the politics & practice of planning for a democratic & decarbonised future
🎙️ Carolina Alves, @brusselermel.bsky.social, Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social
🪑 Sarah Nankivell
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
🎙️ Carolina Alves, @brusselermel.bsky.social, Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social
🪑 Sarah Nankivell
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
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“By binding Israel’s military power together with the Gulf’s hydrocarbon reserves...Washington aims to push back against its weakened regional and global position.”
Read Adam Hanieh on fossil capitalism in the Middle East, kicking off our essay series.
transitionsecurity.org/oil-militari...
Read Adam Hanieh on fossil capitalism in the Middle East, kicking off our essay series.
transitionsecurity.org/oil-militari...
The Middle East and Fossil Capitalism: Oil, Militarism and the Global Order
The struggle against fossil capitalism is inseparable from struggles for justice in the Middle East.
transitionsecurity.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“By binding Israel’s military power together with the Gulf’s hydrocarbon reserves...Washington aims to push back against its weakened regional and global position.”
Read Adam Hanieh on fossil capitalism in the Middle East, kicking off our essay series.
transitionsecurity.org/oil-militari...
Read Adam Hanieh on fossil capitalism in the Middle East, kicking off our essay series.
transitionsecurity.org/oil-militari...
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“The way US empire is being restructured adds to the existential threat of climate crisis — militarisation, a new Cold War and the formation of power blocs are carbon intensive undertakings.”
Read the introduction to our new series — Two Transitions
transitionsecurity.org/two-transiti...
Read the introduction to our new series — Two Transitions
transitionsecurity.org/two-transiti...
Two Transitions
A series of essays on geopolitics, the climate crisis and collective safety in a multipolar world.
transitionsecurity.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“The way US empire is being restructured adds to the existential threat of climate crisis — militarisation, a new Cold War and the formation of power blocs are carbon intensive undertakings.”
Read the introduction to our new series — Two Transitions
transitionsecurity.org/two-transiti...
Read the introduction to our new series — Two Transitions
transitionsecurity.org/two-transiti...