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Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why US Cloud Giants Benefit from DeepSeek and Other Chinese Companies' AI Strategies
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Corporate Accountability After Grenfell
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Cornish Lithium: A Public Mineral Development Fund, Supporting Green Industrialisation in the UK
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Energy
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Missing Money in UK Energy Networks
Common Wealth
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Fossil Fuels
Briefing
27.04.2025
Nationalise Gas to Lower Bills: How a Public Strategic Reserve Can Lower Costs and Enhance Energy Security
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Mathew Lawrence
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Briefing
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Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age
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Tom Mills
Tom Chivers
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Star Wars: Why the Left Should Protect the Status of Space as Humanity’s Commons
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The Greater Manchester Gentrification Index
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Adam Almeida
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Melanie Brusseler
US
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Briefing
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The Next Regime
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Mathew Lawrence
UK
Energy
Community
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The Public is Enthusiastic for Community Energy
Adam Khan
UK
Energy
Fossil Fuels
Briefing
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Public Coordination of a Just North Sea Transition
Chris Hayes
Melanie Brusseler
Adrienne Buller
UK
Housing & Land
Briefing
18.01.2025
Housing Coalitions of the Future
Sacha Hilhorst
UK
Work
Briefing
26.11.2024
Employment Rights Bill
Ewan McGaughey
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Industrial Strategy
Briefing
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A Compass Rose for National and Global Development: Five Institutional Capacities the G20 Can Build to Unleash Green Investment
Advait Arun
Melanie Brusseler
Chirag Lala
Adam Khan
Yakov Feygin
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Energy
Utilities
Briefing
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A Successful GB Energy Must Bring Down Bills
Common Wealth
UK
Energy
Briefing
11.10.2024
In Development: An Institutional Architecture for GB Energy and the National Wealth Fund
Adam Khan
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Report
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A Lucas Plan for the Twenty First Century: From Asset Manager Arsenal to Green Industrial Strategy
Khem Rogaly
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Defence
Interactive
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A Lucas Plan for the Twenty First Century: Mapping Military Aerospace and Shipbuilding in North West England, the Scottish Central Belt and Northern Ireland
Khem Rogaly
UK
Housing & Land
Briefing
29.11.2024
The Antisocial Contract
Chris Hayes
UK
Housing & Land
Briefing
15.02.2025
Open for Business or Up for Sale? Institutional Investors in the UK Real Estate Market
Adam Almeida
UK
Community
Interactive
22.11.2024
A Tale of Two Towns — Map
Sacha Hilhorst
UK
Corporate Power
Briefing
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Shareholder Primacy and Business Investment
Eleanor Shearer
Andrew O'Brien
UK
Community
Report
22.11.2024
A Tale of Two Towns: Economic Disadvantage and Political Disempowerment in Ex-Industrial England
Sacha Hilhorst
UK
AI & Tech
Briefing
11.09.2024
Take Back the Future: Democratising Power over AI
Eleanor Shearer
UK
Energy
Utilities
Briefing
05.08.2024
Over Half of Labour Voters Expect GB Energy to Cut their Bills This Parliament
Common Wealth
UK
Energy
Briefing
05.08.2024
Purchasing Power: A Public Option Retail Arm for Great British Energy
Adam Khan
Melanie Brusseler
Chris Hayes
UK
Utilities
Briefing
11.07.2024
Deep Trouble: Fixing Our Broken Water System
Eleanor Shearer
Ewan McGaughey
UK
Energy
Briefing
09.07.2024
Common Wealth's Vision for Great British Energy
Adam Khan
UK
Transport
Briefing
28.06.2024
Charging Up the UK: Public Action to End Regional Inequalities in EV Infrastructure
Sophie Flinders
Melanie Brusseler
UK
Finance & Pensions
Briefing
27.06.2024
Fair, Green Pensions for All
Common Wealth
UK
Corporate Power
Briefing
16.05.2024
A Firm Partnership
Eleanor Shearer
Mathew Lawrence
Chris Hayes
UK
Corporate Power
Briefing
15.05.2024
Dynamics of Corporate Governance Beyond Ownership in AI
Cecilia Rikap
UK
Transport
Briefing
28.06.2024
Transition in Motion: The Essential Role of Public Coordination in Green Transport
Melanie Brusseler
Khem Rogaly
Nick Pearce
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Energy
Community
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26.04.2024
Plug-in Public Power: The Case for Community Energy Democracy
Nick Pearce
US
Energy
Briefing
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Bridge Over Troubled Water: Rethinking the Role of the State in New York Offshore Wind
Melanie Brusseler
Sophie Flinders
UK
Finance & Pensions
Briefing
23.02.2024
Laughing All The Way to The Bank: Bank Profits Soar While Taxes Stay Low
Sophie Flinders
Simon Youel
UK
Energy
Briefing
16.02.2024
64 Per Cent of Voters Want Renewable Energy Infrastructure to Be in Public Ownership, With Only 8 Percent Opposed
Common Wealth
UK
Energy
Briefing
15.02.2024
The Case for Ambitious Public Ownership of Renewable Generation: Ten Common Questions and Common Wealth’s Answers
Chris Hayes
Melanie Brusseler
Mathew Lawrence
UK
Energy
Report
12.02.2024
The Greatest Generation: How Public Power Can Deliver Net Zero Faster, Fairer and Cheaper
Melanie Brusseler
Chris Hayes
Adrienne Buller
Mathew Lawrence
UK
Defence
Interactive
09.07.2023
The Asset Manager Arsenal — An Interactive Story
Khem Rogaly
UK
Fossil Fuels
Interactive
17.11.2023
Bond Villains: How the Bond Markets Fan the Flames of the Fossil Fuel Industry
Sophie Flinders
Adrienne Buller
UK
Finance & Pensions
Interactive
30.06.2022
Explainer: How Your Pensions Could Be Causing Climate Destruction
Common Wealth
UK
Corporate Power
Interactive
07.07.2020
The Green Recovery Act
Mathew Lawrence
Ewan McGaughey
UK
Macroeconomics
Report
07.12.2023
Inflation, Profits and Market Power: Towards a New Research and Policy Agenda
Carsten Jung
Chris Hayes
UK
Fossil Fuels
Interactive
13.12.2023
Who Owns the North Sea?
Sophie Flinders
UK
Fossil Fuels
Briefing
02.11.2023
Shell invested 5 times as much in in oil and gas as "Renewables and Energy Solutions" in Q3, new analysis finds
Common Wealth
UK
Fossil Fuels
Briefing
31.10.2023
BP invested over 11 times as much in in oil and gas as "low carbon" in Q3, new analysis finds
Common Wealth
UK
Defence
Report
06.11.2023
Less War, Less Warming: A Reparative Approach to US and UK Military Ecological Damages
Patrick Bigger
Nick Pearce
Khem Rogaly
Ketaki Zodgekar
UK
Energy
Report
08.10.2023
Grid is Good: The Case for Public Ownership of Transmission and Distribution
Common Wealth
UK
Defence
Briefing
15.09.2023
Welfare to Arms: Shareholder Payouts in the Arms Industry Since 2010
Khem Rogaly
UK
Fossil Fuels
Briefing
01.08.2023
Q2 Results, BP Invested Over Eleven Times as Much in Oil and Gas as "Low Carbon"
Common Wealth
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27.07.2023
Q2 Results, Shell Invested Six Times as Much in Fossil Fuels as “Low-Carbon” in Q2 2023
Common Wealth
UK
Finance & Pensions
Report
03.08.2023
Undefined Benefit: Fixing the UK Pensions System
Bruno Bonizzi
Jennifer Churchill
Sahil Dutta
Adrienne Buller
UK
Utilities
Briefing
04.07.2023
Repairing English Water in the Wake of the Thames Water Crisis
Ewan McGaughey
UK
Defence
Report
09.07.2023
The Asset Manager Arsenal: Who Owns the UK Arms Industry?
Khem Rogaly
UK
Industrial Strategy
Report
15.06.2023
Coordinating the Green Prosperity Plan
Melanie Brusseler
UK
Fossil Fuels
Briefing
05.05.2023
Q1 Results: For Every £1 Shell Invested in “Renewables and Energy Solutions”, They Invested £6 in Fossil Fuels
Common Wealth
UK
Fossil Fuels
Briefing
02.05.2023
Q1 Results: BP Hands Ten Times as Much to Shareholders as They Spend on “Low Carbon” Investment
Chris Hayes
Sophie Flinders
UK
Finance & Pensions
Fossil Fuels
Briefing
28.04.2023
“Sustainable” ESG Funds Hold Over $1.5 Billion in Coal, Oil and Gas Bonds
Sophie Flinders
UK
Community
Report
27.04.2023
Social Value Index: Building the Case for the Democratic Commons in Tottenham
Adam Almeida
UK
Housing & Land
Briefing
02.12.2022
Chart of the Week: 4 in 10 Landlords Use Their Property to Generate Income for Retirement
Adam Almeida
UK
Corporate Power
Briefing
24.03.2023
Stagnant and Unequal: How the UK is an Outlier in Corporate Governance and Why That Matters
Mathew Lawrence
Khem Rogaly
UK
Transport
Briefing
19.12.2022
Chart of the Week: UK Rail Prices now 5x Those in France
Chris Hayes
UK
Energy
Briefing
06.01.2023
Chart of the Week: Energy Network Costs Paid by the Public Have Risen Sharply
Chris Hayes
UK
Energy
Briefing
10.02.2023
Chart of the Week: Centrica's Top Shareholders
Sophie Flinders
UK
Housing & Land
Briefing
17.02.2023
Chart of the Week: Dividend Payments by the Big Seven Property Developers
Adam Almeida
UK
Energy
Report
07.03.2023
A Wholesale Transformation: Evaluating Proposals for Electricity Market Reform
Donal Brown
Chris Hayes
Mathew Lawrence
Adrienne Buller
UK
Health & Care
Video
27.04.2021
Video: A New Vision for Care
Miriam Brett
UK
Fossil Fuels
Briefing
07.02.2023
Press Release: BP's Q4 Results
Common Wealth
UK
Fossil Fuels
Briefing
02.02.2023
Shell's Q4 Results: Big Oil Won't Deliver the Green Transition
Chris Hayes
Adrienne Buller
UK
Finance & Pensions
Video
21.03.2022
Video: Asset Manager Capitalism
Adrienne Buller
UK
Energy
Briefing
16.01.2023
National Grid: Ownership and Key Financial Indicators
Sophie Flinders
Chris Hayes
Adrienne Buller
UK
Energy
Briefing
31.01.2023
Explainer: How Britain’s Energy System Works — and Why It Needs an Overhaul
Common Wealth
UK
Transport
Interactive
04.08.2022
Brum: The Green Future of an Automotive Heartland
Common Wealth
UK
Transport
Interactive
26.08.2022
How Electric Vehicles Can Save the UK’s Automotive Sector
Common Wealth
UK
Community
Interactive
26.09.2021
A New Model
Keir Milburn
Bertie Russell
Kai Heron
Mathew Lawrence
UK
Industrial Strategy
Interactive
17.02.2021
A Test of Mettle: Securing a Future for a Green UK Steel Industry
Common Wealth
US
Corporate Power
Interactive
09.12.2020
Timeline: Anti-monopoly Action in the United States
Common Wealth
UK
AI & Tech
Corporate Power
Interactive
02.12.2020
Big Tech's Monopoly Power
Common Wealth
UK
Community
Interactive
16.11.2020
Green New Deal: Glasgow
Common Wealth
AA Groundlab
UK
Health & Care
Interactive
01.10.2020
Social Care Infogram
Common Wealth
UK
Trade & Geopolitics
Interactive
19.09.2020
Intellectual Property Infogram
Common Wealth
UK
Housing & Land
Briefing
21.04.2022
The Natural Capital Approach: Rethinking England’s Local Nature Recovery Strategies
Flora Parkin
UK
Politics
Report
28.08.2019
Green New Deal Politics: From Grassroots to Mainstream
Hannah Martin
Fatima Ibrahim
UK
Industrial Strategy
Report
09.09.2019
An Industrial Strategy at the Heart of a Green New Deal
Luke Murphy
UK
Work
Report
09.09.2019
Organised Labour and the Green New Deal
Ellie Mae O’Hagan
UK
Housing & Land
Report
11.09.2019
A Green New Deal for Nature
Simon Lewis
UK
AI & Tech
Report
01.11.2019
Digital Public Assets: Rethinking Value, Access and Control of Public Sector Data in the Platform Age
Rosie Collington
UK
Corporate Power
Report
13.11.2019
Examining the Inclusive Ownership Fund
Mathew Lawrence
Loren King
UK
Community
Report
20.11.2019
Democratising Football
Joe Bilsborough
Jonty Leibowitz
Josh Gabert-Doyon
UK
Politics
Report
25.08.2020
Charting a Just and Sustainable Recovery for Scotland: A Plan for Scotland’s Programme for Government
Miriam Brett
Laurie Macfarlane
UK
Trade & Geopolitics
Report
19.09.2020
Democratising Knowledge: Transforming Intellectual Property and Research and Development
Thomas M. Hanna
Miriam Brett
Dana Brown
UK
AI & Tech
Report
02.12.2020
A Common Platform: Reimagining Data and Platforms
Thomas M. Hanna
Mathew Lawrence
Nils Peters
UK
Politics
Report
08.03.2021
Covid-19 and 21st Century Public Ownership
Thomas M. Hanna
Mathew Lawrence
UK
Health & Care
Report
20.03.2021
Caring for the Earth, Caring for Each Other: An Industrial Strategy for Adult Social Care
Isaac Stanley
Adrienne Buller
Mathew Lawrence
UK
Industrial Strategy
Briefing
22.09.2022
Owning the Gigafactory
Khem Rogaly
Adam Almeida
UK
Work
Briefing
23.03.2022
All at Sea: From the P&O scandal to a New Deal for Workers
Common Wealth
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