We need to #StopTheSqueeze with a real plan for an affordable Britain.

☑️ Guarantee affordable essentials and end excess profits
☑️Boost Incomes
☑️Higher taxes on wealth

Read more in our briefing 'The end of the crisis?' here: stopthesqueeze.uk/briefings

Nearly 90% think the cost of living crisis is ongoing.

The economy isn't 'turning a corner', it's spiralling out of control.

It’s time for a real cost of living plan for Britain.

Stop the Squeeze

#TechScienceDaily

ChatGPT halts 'Scarlett Johansson-sounding' AI voice

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Police probe NHS infected blood scandal

Common Wealth’s Eleanor Shearer on AI Seoul Summit policy challenges

Could ‘pink noise’ help sleep?

Tiny robot’s corn-size surgery

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And if you’d like to unpack the case for public ownership and energy democracy, check out Common Wealth’s recent report:

common-wealth.org/publications/p…

On This Day: May 18th, 1933.

President Roosevelt establishes the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as part of the New Deal.

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It's truly amazing to behold the acrobatics needed to make sure that, having privatised a bunch of natural monopolies, they don't then blow up in our faces. And thank god they never do

This time will be different.

Tremendous, clear, compelling explanation of the case for public ownership of energy from Mathew Lawrence Common Wealth 👇

With Labour in the news reaffirming GB Energy as one of their six key pledges, our Director Mathew Lawrence spoke to PoliticsJOE about the case for public ownership of energy as key to delivering a just transition.

Support for renewable energy infrastructure being in public ownership is eight times the level of support for private ownership of renewables.

Our polling from YouGov on public power.

If pursued with scale and ambition, GB Energy has enormous potential to deliver a fairer, faster, cheaper energy transition.

Our recent report set out the principles and long term vision for public power.

common-wealth.org/publications/t…

This is a fascinating, data-rich study by Cecilia Rikap Common Wealth on Big Tech's efforts to steer the direction of AI, delving into their partnerships with startups, leveraging of market power in the cloud, and capture of large swathes of academia.

common-wealth.org/publications/d…

Good to see analysis from Common Wealth covered in the The Guardian by Larry Elliott.

In the 1970s, dividends stood at 20p for every £1 of gross fixed-capital formation. By the late 2010s the figure was 95p.

Cash = disgorged