Reports & Briefings

New insights, in-depth analysis, and innovative policy solutions to critical issues.
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Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why US Cloud Giants Benefit from DeepSeek and Other Chinese Companies' AI Strategies

26.6.2025
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Explainer: What is Green Credit Guidance?

19.6.2025
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Corporate Accountability After Grenfell

14.6.2025
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To Unlock Pension Funds, We Need to Unlock the Pensions Review

29.5.2025
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Cornish Lithium: A Public Mineral Development Fund, Supporting Green Industrialisation in the UK

14.5.2025
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Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age

8.5.2025
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Missing Money in UK Energy Networks

6.5.2025
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Nationalise Gas to Lower Bills: How a Public Strategic Reserve Can Lower Costs and Enhance Energy Security

27.4.2025
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Star Wars: Why the Left Should Protect the Status of Space as Humanity’s Commons

24.4.2025
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Open for Business or Up for Sale? Institutional Investors in the UK Real Estate Market

15.2.2025
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A New Green Democratic Republic for the 21st Century

23.1.2025
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The Next Regime

20.1.2025
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The Public is Enthusiastic for Community Energy

20.1.2025
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Housing Coalitions of the Future

18.1.2025
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Public Coordination of a Just North Sea Transition

10.1.2025
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The Antisocial Contract

29.11.2024
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Employment Rights Bill

26.11.2024
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A Tale of Two Towns: Economic Disadvantage and Political Disempowerment in Ex-Industrial England

22.11.2024
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A Compass Rose for National and Global Development: Five Institutional Capacities the G20 Can Build to Unleash Green Investment

15.11.2024
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A Successful GB Energy Must Bring Down Bills

28.10.2024
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A Lucas Plan for the Twenty First Century: From Asset Manager Arsenal to Green Industrial Strategy

18.10.2024
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In Development: An Institutional Architecture for GB Energy and the National Wealth Fund

11.10.2024
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Shareholder Primacy and Business Investment

22.9.2024
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Take Back the Future: Democratising Power over AI

11.9.2024
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Over Half of Labour Voters Expect GB Energy to Cut their Bills This Parliament

5.8.2024
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Purchasing Power: A Public Option Retail Arm for Great British Energy

5.8.2024
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Deep Trouble: Fixing Our Broken Water System

11.7.2024
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Common Wealth's Vision for Great British Energy

9.7.2024
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Charging Up the UK: Public Action to End Regional Inequalities in EV Infrastructure

28.6.2024
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Transition in Motion: The Essential Role of Public Coordination in Green Transport

28.6.2024
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Fair, Green Pensions for All

27.6.2024
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A Firm Partnership

16.5.2024
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Dynamics of Corporate Governance Beyond Ownership in AI

15.5.2024
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Plug-in Public Power: The Case for Community Energy Democracy

26.4.2024
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Bridge Over Troubled Water: Rethinking the Role of the State in New York Offshore Wind

1.3.2024
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Laughing All The Way to The Bank: Bank Profits Soar While Taxes Stay Low

23.2.2024
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64 Per Cent of Voters Want Renewable Energy Infrastructure to Be in Public Ownership, With Only 8 Percent Opposed

16.2.2024
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The Case for Ambitious Public Ownership of Renewable Generation: Ten Common Questions and Common Wealth’s Answers

15.2.2024
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The Greatest Generation: How Public Power Can Deliver Net Zero Faster, Fairer and Cheaper

12.2.2024
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Inflation, Profits and Market Power: Towards a New Research and Policy Agenda

7.12.2023
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Less War, Less Warming: A Reparative Approach to US and UK Military Ecological Damages

6.11.2023
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Shell invested 5 times as much in in oil and gas as "Renewables and Energy Solutions" in Q3, new analysis finds

2.11.2023
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BP invested over 11 times as much in in oil and gas as "low carbon" in Q3, new analysis finds

31.10.2023
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Grid is Good: The Case for Public Ownership of Transmission and Distribution

8.10.2023
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Welfare to Arms: Shareholder Payouts in the Arms Industry Since 2010

15.9.2023
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Undefined Benefit: Fixing the UK Pensions System

3.8.2023
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Q2 Results, BP Invested Over Eleven Times as Much in Oil and Gas as "Low Carbon"

1.8.2023
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Q2 Results, Shell Invested Six Times as Much in Fossil Fuels as “Low-Carbon” in Q2 2023

27.7.2023
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The Asset Manager Arsenal: Who Owns the UK Arms Industry?

9.7.2023
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Repairing English Water in the Wake of the Thames Water Crisis

4.7.2023
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Coordinating the Green Prosperity Plan

15.6.2023
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Q1 Results: For Every £1 Shell Invested in “Renewables and Energy Solutions”, They Invested £6 in Fossil Fuels

5.5.2023
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Q1 Results: BP Hands Ten Times as Much to Shareholders as They Spend on “Low Carbon” Investment

2.5.2023
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“Sustainable” ESG Funds Hold Over $1.5 Billion in Coal, Oil and Gas Bonds

28.4.2023
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Social Value Index: Building the Case for the Democratic Commons in Tottenham

27.4.2023
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Stagnant and Unequal: How the UK is an Outlier in Corporate Governance and Why That Matters

24.3.2023
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A Wholesale Transformation: Evaluating Proposals for Electricity Market Reform

7.3.2023
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Chart of the Week: Dividend Payments by the Big Seven Property Developers

17.2.2023
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Chart of the Week: Centrica's Top Shareholders

10.2.2023
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Press Release: BP's Q4 Results

7.2.2023
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Shell's Q4 Results: Big Oil Won't Deliver the Green Transition

2.2.2023
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Explainer: How Britain’s Energy System Works — and Why It Needs an Overhaul

31.1.2023
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National Grid: Ownership and Key Financial Indicators

16.1.2023
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Chart of the Week: Energy Network Costs Paid by the Public Have Risen Sharply

6.1.2023
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Chart of the Week: UK Rail Prices now 5x Those in France

19.12.2022
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Chart of the Week: 4 in 10 Landlords Use Their Property to Generate Income for Retirement

2.12.2022
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Buy Back Better: The Case for Raising Taxes on Dividends and Buybacks

27.10.2022
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Solidarity in Supply: Five Global Justice Policies for Decarbonising Transport

12.10.2022
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The Big Buyback

11.10.2022
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Power to the People: The Case for a Publicly Owned Generation Company

26.9.2022
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Owning the Gigafactory

22.9.2022
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Steel the Deal: The Race to the Top for European Green Steel

17.8.2022
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A Sunrise Industry: Unlocking Green Steel Investment

8.8.2022
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Explainer: How Your Pensions Could Be Causing Climate Destruction

30.6.2022
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Asset Manager Capitalism: Where Next?

21.6.2022
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Prices and Profits after the Pandemic

20.6.2022
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Explainer: What's the Deal with Asset Management

12.5.2022
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The Great Divide: Examining Labour Compensation and Dividend Growth

2.5.2022
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May Day: A World of Work to Win

1.5.2022
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The Natural Capital Approach: Rethinking England’s Local Nature Recovery Strategies

21.4.2022
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The Passive Revolution

8.4.2022
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A Right to Food Systems

30.3.2022
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All at Sea: From the P&O scandal to a New Deal for Workers

23.3.2022
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Joint Budget Briefing: Securing a Thriving Future for UK Green Steel

19.3.2022
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Profiting Amid the Energy Crisis: The Distribution Networks at the Heart of the UK's Gas and Electricity System

14.3.2022
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Performing without Transforming: The Case for a Windfall Tax in the United States

7.3.2022
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Drilling Down: UK Oil and Gas Financial Performance

12.1.2022
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Do Dividends Pay our Pensions?

10.1.2022
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Passive Attack: Charting the Rise of Passive Index Trackers

17.12.2021
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Farming the Future: Transforming the Ownership of Food Systems Research & Data

3.12.2021
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FFS? Fossil Fuels Support in the UK Tax System

25.11.2021
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Insuring Against Climate Catastrophe

4.11.2021
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Power Ahead: An Energy System Fit for the Future

21.10.2021
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Digital Co-Ops and the Democratic Economy

15.9.2021
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Under New Management: Share Ownership and the Growth of UK Asset Manager Capitalism

7.9.2021
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All Aboard: Transforming Bus Services

19.7.2021
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Why Are Some Children Worth More than Others? The Private-State School Funding Gap in England

9.6.2021
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"Deal or no deal?" Exploring the Potential, Limits and Potential Limits of Green New Deals

6.5.2021
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Towards Reparative Climate Justice: from Crises to Liberations

12.4.2021
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Low Interest Rates and the Productivity Puzzle

6.4.2021
Leela Jadhav
Gareth Fearn
Stefan Zylinski
Tom Chivers
Tom Mills
Dan Hind
Carla Ibled
Yakov Feygin
Chirag Lala
Advait Arun
Andrew O'Brien
Sacha Hilhorst
Adam Khan
Eleanor Shearer
Cecilia Rikap
Vivek Kotecha
Simon Youel
Ketaki Zodgekar
Nick Pearce
Patrick Bigger
Sahil Dutta
Jennifer Churchill
Bruno Bonizzi
Melanie Brusseler
Donal Brown
Sophie Flinders
Kai Heron
Dr. Kojo Koram
Ewan McGaughey
Julian Siravo
Flora Parkin
Sara Mahmoud
Miranda Hall
Lenore Palladino
Peter Gowan
Maria Nikolaidi
James Meadway
David Wearing
Fran Boait
Neil McInroy
Grace Brown
Chris Silver
Pawel Wargan
David Adler
Thea Riofrancos
Alyssa Battistoni
Kate Aronoff
Daniel Aldana Cohen
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Fatima Ibrahim
Hannah Martin
Luke Murphy
Ellie Mae O’Hagan
Simon Lewis
Rosie Collington
Leo Murray
Jamie Beevo
Loren King
Jonty Leibowitz
Joe Bilsborough
Hettie O'Brien
Duncan McCann
Laurie Macfarlane
Dana Brown
Sarah McKinley
Nils Peters
Thomas M. Hanna
Isaac Stanley
Ed Yates
John Evemy
Craig Berry
Adam Almeida
Leon Sealey-Huggins
Lukasz Krebel
Rob Booth
Carsten Jung
Joseph Evans
George Dibb
Bertie Russell
Keir Milburn
Frank Van Lerven
David Powell
Alfie Stirling
Carla Skandier
Johanna Bozuwa
Dan Hind
Mathew Lawrence
Sarah Arnold
Amelia Horgan
Josh Gabert-Doyon
Guppi Bola
Chris Hayes
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Sandy Brian Hager
Joseph Baines
Khem Rogaly
Harpreet Kaur Paul
Benjamin Braun
Kate Blagojevic
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