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Laurie Macfarlane is economics editor at openDemocracy, and a research associate at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. He is the co-author of Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (Zed Books, 2017).
This week, the Scottish government announced a plan to bring ScotRail back under public ownership. But it’s not only in Scotland that privatisation is failing – it’s time to take all of our rail networks back into public hands.
Margaret Thatcher described Right to Buy as ‘one of the most important revolutions of the century.’ She was right. And we’re still living with the consequences.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies says Labour’s plan to invest in Britain is impractical – but when faced with climate crisis and a failing economy, there’s nothing more impractical than inaction.