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A think tank designing ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
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British businesses have never had a legal obligation to respect human rights. That's finally changing.

This week, the Government announced draft legislation for a mandatory human rights due diligence (HRDD) regime.

A few notes on what this means...🧵

committees.parliament.uk/committee/365/…
committees.parliament.uk Government will legislate on forced labour in supply chains after BIST reports - Committees - UK... The Government has indicated it will legislate for a mandatory due diligence regime to tackle forced labour in UK supply chains, after sustained pressure from the BIST Committee. 
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For years, Thames Water has racked up penalties for polluting our waterways.

The choice is now clear: waive those penalties to help keep a privatised company afloat, or take it into public hands.

We can make sure bills go toward fixing infrastructure, not banks & shareholders.
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Thames Water creditors prepare ‘final’ offer as Burnham faces nationalisation decision ft.trib.al/SIYZWYD
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The shortage of genuinely affordable homes puts the government’s plans to address rough sleeping at risk.

More homes need to be made available. Buying back ex-council homes is one lever to provide accessible housing quickly.

theguardian.com/society/2026/n…
www.theguardian.com Burnham’s homelessness pledge to ‘get everyone in for Christmas’ in jeopardy Minister says Labour hoping to offer bed to every rough sleeper in England but cites chronic housing shortage
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Britain keeps losing its most valuable companies. 300 of them have been sold to foreign (mostly US) buyers in the last decade.
 
What if we had a system that scaled innovation here in the UK — rather than turning it into a vehicle for US investor profit?

common-wealth.org/publications/w…
www.common-wealth.org We Aren’t the Champions: Why UK Venture Capital Is Failing to Scale Domestic Innovation As long as the UK venture capital market is subordinated to the US, cultivating the UK's tech startup ecology will prove a Sisyphean task.
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The great British sell-off ft.trib.al/VQJ4iVh
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