Great to work with Carmen Aguilar García and Anna Leach on this. The whopping £60bn debt mountain built up by our water companies needs to be serviced - and the money comes from our bills SOAS Economics theguardian.com/money/2023/dec…

👀 Watch Aotearoa New Zealand MP Chlöe Swarbrick deliver the most formidably cogent summary of the 20th century economic order - and how it ruined everything.

BlackRock is now the second-largest infrastructure manager, as it acquires Global Infrastructure Partners for $12.5bn. The deal includes stakes in Sydney & London Gatwick airports, Port of Melbourne, Suez water & extensive green energy holdings ft.com/content/a09014… via Financial Times

Macquarie's €8bn Europe infrastructure fund a sign of record 'investor appetite for critical assets'. But do governments have the appetite to keep playing the increasingly-expensive game of privatise, de-risk, and bailout when it collapses? ft.com/content/0cfce0… via Financial Times

✊ brilliant leadership and organising from UCL students UCL Action for Palestine. Today's rally followed a 34-day peaceful occupation on campus, holding UCL to account and calling for an end to silence and complicity

Update from our meeting with UCL senior management 1/3

Solidarity to all at Goldsmiths today at the sharp end of a shambolic redundancy process which is systematically dismantling one of the most impt institutions in our field w/ untold human cost | Suport the fight here goldsmithsucu.org/donations/gucu… Goldsmiths UCU