Laurie Macfarlane
@L__Macfarlane
Co-director @FutureEconScot. Fellow @IIPP_UCL and @DemocracyCollab. Co-author Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
Extraordinary. A Tory MP warns a Labour foreign secretary that his cowardice and inaction over Gaza could see him prosecuted at The Hague He’s absolutely right of course, and Lammy must be aware of this
Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague
A must read.
I spent a year at Ofwat back in 2013 working on price controls I’m not remotely surprised it’s being abolished - what I saw astonished me 🧵 theguardian.com/business/2025/…
Steve Reed is right. We should focus on facts. So let's start with eight claims made to @krishgm 1. The £100bn figure. This makes no sense and is not credibly evidenced. The true and fair value in law is close to zero. Legal expert @ewan_mg unpacks common-wealth.org/perspectives/h…
“I'm not going to focus on ideology." It would cost £100bn to nationalise water companies and the government would have to take that money from the NHS and education, Environment Secretary Steve Reed tells @krishgm
Excellent, informed thread on why handing a country's water supply over to rent-hungry private investors is a bad idea. (For non-UK folk, Ofwat is our water "regulator", which is now being scrapped).
I spent a year at Ofwat back in 2013 working on price controls I’m not remotely surprised it’s being abolished - what I saw astonished me 🧵 theguardian.com/business/2025/…
Fascinating thread, the insiders view of Ofwat, regulation and the water industry.
I spent a year at Ofwat back in 2013 working on price controls I’m not remotely surprised it’s being abolished - what I saw astonished me 🧵 theguardian.com/business/2025/…