Calculating the present market value of housing transferred through the Right To Buy discount.

As gas plants are phased out, they should be brought into public ownership.

The winding down of fossil fuel production in the North Sea is inevitable and necessary. We need public control over these assets to ensure a timely and just transition.

Reliance on speculative private developers and market coordination will neither deliver the scale of housebuilding needed to tackle the crisis, nor address its acute distributional dimension. Both objectives require a strengthened role for the public sector.

To deliver on the promise of lower energy bills, Great British Energy should include a retail arm that sells energy directly to people’s homes.

This briefing note introduces Common Wealth’s upcoming programme of corporate governance reform, launching this summer with a mix of research, policy development and advocacy.

How public ownership of new renewable capacity can accelerate the energy transition.

A new public green energy generating company should be the vehicle for the just transformation of the UK’s electricity system.

Corporate profits in sectors beyond just oil and gas played a role in amplifying and prolonging the recent inflationary episode — squeezing workers, consumers and other firms further down the supply chain. A broader and more targeted toolkit is needed to contain future shocks.

The wholesale market is not fit for purpose. We assess the alternatives.

The charges on energy bills for energy transmission and distribution have risen significantly since 2018.

This briefing is published in collaboration with IPPR as part of our programme of work exploring profits and corporate power post-pandemic.

How rising profits could be stoking inflation.

The explosion of passively-managed investments over the past two decades – and in particular in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis – marks a major shift in two defining forces in the global economy: corporate governance and control over investment allocation.

On public investment as portfolio management.

On Labour’s fiscal and accounting rules.

On the failed CfD auction and the case for public power.

On our pensions and their entanglement with shareholder payouts.