Podcasts about cat hobbs

Britain's infrastructure is struggling. We've seen stories of concrete falling down in schools, unreliable public transport, and an NHS at breaking point after chronic neglect and the Covid-19 pandemic. But little has captured people's attention and activism like the damage and disrepair of our sewage system and the disastrous decisions of the companies that own our water.Currently we're dealing with sewage in the rivers, rising bills, poorly managed companies that are increasingly “uninvestable“, and a regulator that has fined water companies just £2 despite record sewage spillages.But how did we get here, and how do we turn the tide? On this episode of It's Bloody Complicated we discussed just how feasible, desirable, and popular public ownership of water is and highlighted the campaign to get there.The Compass campaigns team were joined by the Director of We Own It, Cat Hobbs, expert on water legislation Professor Ewan McGaughey, and chair of the UNISON Water Industry Sector Committee Natalie Mladenovich-Haigh to dive into how we got here and how we get out of this mess.Cat Hobbs is the Founder and Director of We Own It, an organisation that campaigns for public ownership of public services.Ewan McGaughey is a Professor of Law who specialises in law, economics and history at Kings College London. His core research interests are economic and social rights, particularly in the governance of enterprises.Natalie Mladenovich-Haigh is the chair of UNISON Water Industry Sector Committee.We've been working with Clive Lewis MP, Green New Deal Rising, We Own It, and more to campaign for changes to ownership and management of water and will be doing more in the coming months. This podcast is one piece of that work – find our more here.Support the showEnjoyed the podcast and want to be a live audience member at our next episode? Want to have the chance in raising questions to the panelist?Support our work and be a part of the Compass community. Become a member!You can find us on Twitter at @CompassOffice.

The UK's sorry state of affairs when it comes to water and railways is both a massive problem and an opportunity for the incoming government. Water companies are teetering on the brink of collapse and it feels inevitable that they will soon fall back in to public ownership. But how can we pay for renationalised services? Cat Hobbs from We Own It talks to Nish and Coco about the history of privatisation and the opportunities that renationalised services present to the UK. And economist and activist Gary Stevenson explores how the public can rewrite the narrative on taxation - starting with a 1% tax on people with wealth of over £10,000,000. But why stop there? Coco and Nish ask about other potential boons to the state budget. Pod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media.Contact us via email: PSUK@reducedlistening.co.ukWhatsApp: 07494 933 444 (UK) or + 44 7494 933 444 (internationally)Insta: https://instagram.com/podsavetheukTwitter: https://twitter.com/podsavetheukTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheukFacebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheukYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/podsavetheworld Guests:Cat Hobbs, Director of We Own ItGary Stevenson, the Activist and Economist behind Gary's Economics Useful links:Come to see Pod Save the UK live at Edinburgh Fringe!https://weownit.org.uk/https://patrioticmillionaires.uk/

New findings from a team at Oxford University suggest that privatisation bad for your health. Researchers looked at 13 long-term studies from well-off countries including the UK to examine what happened ‘before' and ‘after' public health provision was outsourced. Their conclusion: Increases in privatisation generally corresponded with worse quality of care. Adrian Goldberg talks to one of the researchers Ben Goodair, and Cat Hobbs, Director of the campaign group We Own It. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Made by We Bring Audio for Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

England is facing the prospect of an official drought – millions of people have had hosepipe bans – but 2.4 billion litres of water are wasted in England every day thanks to leaky pipes. Figures obtained by the Lib Dems show that in the last two years executives at water and sewage companies paid themselves more than £27m in bonuses, benefits and other incentives – and overall gave themselves £48million in pay. In Scotland and Wales though, water is run on a non profit basis. Adrian Goldberg hears from Martin Lines an arable farmer in Cambridgeshire and UK Chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network and Cat Hobbs from the pressure group We Own It.Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.Originally broadcast @bylineradio via Twitter Spaces See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

England is facing the prospect of an official drought – millions of people have had hosepipe bans – but 2.4 billion litres of water are wasted in England every day thanks to leaky pipes.   Figures obtained by the Lib Dems show that in the last two years executives at water and sewage companies paid themselves more than £27m in bonuses, benefits and other incentives – and overall gave themselves £48million in pay. In Scotland and Wales though, water is run on a non profit basis.    Adrian Goldberg hears from Martin Lines an arable farmer in Cambridgeshire and UK Chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network and Cat Hobbs from the pressure group We Own It. Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Originally broadcast @bylineradio via Twitter Spaces

With UK energy prices set to increase by 54% is it time to think again and put re-nationalisation on the table? Adrian Goldberg gets both sides of the story from Cat Hobbs, founder and director of We Own It and Professor Michael Pollitt from the Cambridge University Judge Business School Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey EWhite. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times.

With UK energy prices set to increase by 54% is it time to think again and put re-nationalisation on the table?Adrian Goldberg gets both sides of the story from Cat Hobbs, founder and director of We Own It and Professor Michael Pollitt from the Cambridge University Judge Business SchoolProduced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey EWhite.Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Meagre food packages for kids on free school meals. A £22bn track and trace system that isn’t fit for purpose. And people asked to travel hundreds of miles for a Covid test. What do all of these things have in common? They’ve all been outsourced to the private sector. But why are these vital services being run by the private sector? Are the allegations of cronyism true? And who’s making money out of all this? Ayeisha is joined by New Statesman’s Britain editor, Anoosh Chakelian and David Hall, founder of the Public Services International Research Unit at the University of Greenwich. For more on this area, you can listen to a previous episode we did with Cat Hobbs, director of We Own It campaign, Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper magazine and Sahil Dutta from Goldsmiths University on Public Ownership: https://soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomicspodcast/public-ownership-20 ----- Researched by Margaret Welsh. Produced by Becky Malone. Enjoying the show? Tweet us your comments and questions @NEF! The Weekly Economics Podcast is brought to you by the New Economics Foundation. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org

The Commonwealth Day ceremony marks Harry & Meghan's last official royal engagement, Dan asks whether they may regret stepping down as major royals, Ash Sarkar says that Labour was right to suspend Trevor Phillips for Islamophobic comments and Cat Hobbs of the campaign group We Own It debates the various merits of the BBC. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cat Hobbs, founder and director of We Own It, joins us to talk about the implementation and governance of public ownership. We discuss the awful results of the privatization of public services and what we can do to take these essential services back under public control. Find out more about We Own It: https://weownit.org.uk/ *** Support DPS Media and receive weekly subscriber-only B-Sides by becoming a patron today: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** --------------- Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/deadpundits Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deadpunditssociety YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl_Xg

James Butler is joined by Cat Hobbs of We Own It and Andrew Towers of the CWU to discuss public ownership in the 21st century. ‘When We Own It’ can be found on the We Own It website.   http://novaramedia.com/?p=13461

Public ownership is back on the agenda. Opinion polls show high levels of support for taking all kinds of things back into public hands, from the railways to water to energy, and the Labour party is committed to a vast expansion of public ownership. But if privatisation has failed, what kind of public ownership should replace it? As the critics of nationalisation are quick to say, British Rail wasn’t that great. What should be done differently this time? If these services were nationalised, would the state even know how to run them? And are there other ways of putting them back in public hands? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Cat Hobbs, director of We Own It campaign, Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper magazine and fellow of the Transnational Institute, and Sahil Dutta, lecturer in political economy at Goldsmiths University. Enjoying the show? Tweet us your comments and questions @NEF! Produced by James Shield. Music this week is by Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons licence. The award-winning Weekly Economics Podcast is brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the UK's only people powered think tank. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org

This week we're talking about public ownership and privatization with three special guests. We are joined by Shahrzad Habibi, research director at In The Public Interest, Thomas Hanna, The Democracy Collaborative's research director and author of Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership in the United States, and Cat Hobbs, founder and director of We Own It.  The conversation runs the gamut from the pitfalls of the privatization of goods and services to the social benefits of public ownership and envisioning democratic governance thereof.

What do we want for Britain after Brexit? We don't need wishful thinking or rehashed ideas. We need radical solutions. So, every Thursday we release an episode where we talk to one inspiring speaker about theirs. This episode we speak to Cat Hobbs, director of WeOwnIt. She discusses why privatisation of public services is both unjustified and ineffective in a passionate plea for the people to own trains, water, the NHS and others. Comment, share, like, tweet your reactions or tell us your #radicalsolutions! If you want to make sure you don't miss any episodes, follow us on Soundcloud, Instagram, Facebook or Twitter! This podcast was produced and hosted by Bridey Addison-Child and Tessa van Rens. This series will see many people interviewed with different opinions. Unlock Democracy is creating a discussion about big ideas, but the views expressed by the guests are not the views of the organisation. Credits; - Adam1428, Privatisation in Britain during 1980's, August 17, 2007 - WeOwnIt, The Financial Times just took down the private water industry, Oct 17 2018 - WeOwnIt, Not capitalism, not communism, Oct 24 2018 - Sky News report, Oct 22 2017 - Music; Blue dot Sessions

This month, James Bull speaks to 'We Own It' founder Cat Hobbs about privatisation and public ownership, UNISON Knowsley Branch activists Paula Carlysle and James Robinson about their successful campaign to prevent the outsourcing of social care services, and we hear from the pickets at Bolton Hospital where domestics, porters, catering and maintenance staff have won their campaign for NHS pay and conditions.

Thomas Hanna, Cat Hobbs, Hilary Wainwright, Andrew Towers, Andrew Cumbers On every continent, activists and political leaders are transforming struggles to resist privatisation into campaigns to restore and expand public ownership. The Labour Party is no exception. For some however, public ownership still means nothing more than top-down control and loads of bureaucracy. By looking at examples from across the globe, this session will discuss how this needn't be the case, and what democratic forms of public ownership, with worker and community participation at their heart, might look like. Democracy Collaborative

Hello! We're on a bus with Cat Hobbs, Director of We Own It, and our transport expert Nicole Badstuber returns. There's more to buses than fighting for the second deck front window seat. With 5 billion journeys made per year in the UK, we're owed a service that works. But millions of us just don't have one and it hardly ever gets discussed. We find out why and what needs to be done. PLUS Dan Pink, author of When: the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing on when we're at our best and the power of the power nap. AND Comedian Kiri Pritchard McLean joins us to advocate citizens' service for all, criminalising the bystanders and community planting CONTACT USreasons@cheerfulpodcast.comhttps://www.facebook.com/reasonstobecheerfulpodcasthttps://twitter.com/cheerfulpodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/cheerfulpodcast/ MERCHhttps://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/cheerfulpodcast/ CONTACT OUR GUESTSCat Hobbs - https://twitter.com/CatHobbsNicole Badstuber - https://twitter.com/NicoleBadstuberDan Pink - https://twitter.com/DanielPinkKiri Pritchard-McLean - https://twitter.com/kiripritchardmc See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.