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Privatisation

July 2024

  • Sir Trevor McDonald

    NatWest takes £24m hit from abandoned ‘Tell Sid’-style campaign

  • The Great Ouse in Bedfordshire after bursting its banks earlier this year. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way – podcast

  • A leaking pipe, Thames Water engineers and Thames Water logo overlaid with archive Guardian stories.

    Debt, sewage and dividends: the rising tide of Thames Water’s troubles

  • Margaret Thatcher and water treatment plants overlaid with archive Guardian stories

    Cheap sales, debt and foreign takeovers: how privatisation changed the water industry

June 2024

  • Margaret Thatcher commemorative mugs.

    Observer letters
    Time for the Tories to face up to the damage they have done

  • Winchester College, Hampshire.

    Level the playing field? Many state schools don’t have any left

  • The Great Ouse in Bedfordshire after bursting its banks earlier this year.

    The long read
    Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way

  • Thames Water maintenance work in London on 3 April 2024.

    The Guardian view on water privatisation: end an experiment that has failed

May 2024

  • George Monbiot

    How can a child in care cost £281,000 a year? Ask the wealth funds that have councils over a barrel

    George Monbiot
  • Man and a dog jumping into a river. He is diving head-first and wears blue patterned shorts; the dog is a golden labrador. A rowing boat and people on the bank can be seen in the background as the river curves, with trees and a field to the side.

    ‘Someone is going to die’: MPs warned of E coli risk to swimmers in English waters

  • The Bernina Express in Graubünden, Switzerland, with mountains behind

    Labour should look to Switzerland and Finland for Great British Railways

  • Keir Starmer

    Keir Starmer must flush away the stinking turd of Thatcher’s water privatisation

April 2024

  • Tom Haines-Doran

    Starmer’s rail plans must only be the start. It’s full renationalisation that Britain needs

    Tom Haines-Doran
  • Keir Starmer and Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh visit Hitachi Rail in Aycliffe, England on 25 April 2024

    The Guardian view on Labour and rail renationalisation: a sensible plan that passengers need

  • Beth Riding

    I’m 17 and haven’t seen a dentist for four years. This is life in England’s NHS dental deserts

    Beth Riding
  • Postman on his delivery round in Howden, East Yorkshire.

    The stupidity that is letting Royal Mail fail

March 2024

  • Thames Water Sewage Discharges, River Thames, Windsor, Berkshire, UK - 30 Mar 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Maureen McLean/REX/Shutterstock (14412382c) Thames Water have been discharging sewage into the River Thames in Windsor, Berkshire for over 38 hours. The possibility of Thames Water being nationalised has increased greatly today as shareholders in the UK's biggest water company have refuse to give £500m in emergency funding. The CEO of Thames Water, Chris Weston has reportedly said that if funding investment cannot be found by the end of 2024 that there was a prospect of the company going into special administration Thames Water Sewage Discharges, River Thames, Windsor, Berkshire, UK - 30 Mar 2024

    The Observer view: there is still a way to save Thames Water from financial oblivion

  • Margaret Thatcher, June 12, 1987; Thames Water Head Office; Bill Alexander, chief executive of Thames Water pours RWE chairman Dr Dietmar Kuhnt,

    What now for Thames Water as investors turn off the taps?

  • The Thames Water logo at pipe replacement work site in London, Britain, 28 March 2024

    Thames Water on road to state rescue amid investor standoff with Ofwat

  • Adam Almeida

    England’s ludicrous experiment in privatised water is coming to a messy end

    Adam Almeida
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