The privatisation premium — compulsory, elevated costs to consumers for essentials — worsens the affordability crisis. Public ownership is the best way to overcome the drivers of the privatisation premium: the higher cost of capital and coordination frictions generated by privatisation.

How has the radical experiment of privatisation transformed our society and reshaped our lives?

The vast majority of the UK’s public chargepoints are concentrated in London. Public investment and coordination are needed to roll out equitable EV infrastructure.

Market coordination of the transition to green transport is a messy and ineffective route to decarbonisation. Public coordination, investment and procurement are needed to expand the public transport system and the manufacturing industries that supply it.

Decades of bus privatisation and deregulation combined with years of austerity has resulted in increasing fares, unreliable services, and poor pay and conditions for many bus workers.

14 out of 17 major rail franchises are partly or wholly state-owned – but only two of these by the governments in the UK.

This briefing note examines the recent corporate behaviour of the aviation sector – and argues that any bailout of the sector must be contingent on ensuring job security, action on climate change, and a strategic public ownership stake.

A plan to make to make private cars obsolete in London by 2030.