Podcasts about we own it

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.

Thames Water bills will rise by more than a third to an average of £588 over the next five years despite its dismal record on pollution and leaks.Water regulator Ofwat said the UK's biggest water company, which supplies London and was recently fined £18 million for breaking share dividends rules, will be allowed to hike its bills by an inflation-busting £152, or 35 per cent - that's an average £31 a year.The charges are being hiked to fund a £104 billion spending plan, with other water companies in England and Wales following suit increasing customer bills.The Standard podcast is joined by Matthew Topham, lead campaigner at We Own It, a pressure group for public ownership.In part two, patients with sleep apnoea are receiving a choice of two nerve stimulators from University College London Hospitals to combat the condition, and it's the first UK healthcare provider to offer both therapies without needing bulky equipment.We're joined by Mr Ryan Chin Taw Cheong, consultant ENT and sleep surgeon at UCLH's Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 official figures have revealed record sewage spills in in England's rivers and seas…3.6 million hours of waste dumped in 2023 compared to 1.75 million hours the year before. Sewage works are sometimes overloaded during heavy downpours meaning waste sometimes legally flows out untreated but these occasions should be kept to a minimum. This all begs questions about the regulation our privatised water companies who paid out £1.4 billion to shareholders last year, but are now seeking an additional £10bn from customers to deal with sewage. Adrian Goldberg hears from Charles Watson, founder of the charity River Action and Johnbosco Nwogbo, from the anti privatisation campaign group We Own It. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. 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.

Thanks for choosing the Leeds Sanctuary podcast! This is our "Justice" stream, and in this episode, Anna talks to Matthew Topham of We Own It, an organisation that campaigns for public ownership. Matthew is Lead Campaigner for Better Buses in West Yorkshire, a campaign which Leeds Craftivists have contributed to in January, February and March 2024. You can find out more about We Own It here: https://weownit.org.uk/ and follow Matthew on X here: https://twitter.com/mjhtopham You can learn more about our Leeds Craftivists campaign here: www.leedssanctuary.org.uk/2024/01/17/leeds-craftivists-spring-2024-campaign-public-transport In life and faith, we value and appreciate different perspectives, and encourage you to consider what your perspective is too! If anything in this podcast gets you thinking, you'd be more than welcome to get in touch with us for more information or a conversation. We hope you enjoy this podcast; if you do, please share it and tag us on social media at @leedssanctuary. You can find more information about Leeds Sanctuary and our communities at www.leedssanctuary.org.uk. With thanks to Matt at MC Online Events for editing this podcast. Music by Stockaudios from Pixabay.

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.

Johnbosco Nwogbo from We Own It discusses the future of the NHS, to what degree it can still be considered publicity owned, and what we could expect from a Labour government. Johnbosco Nwogbo is Lead Campaigner at We Own It. For the three years before joining We Own It, he has been a campaigner for renters and community rights as part of ACORN the community union. SUPPORT: www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark Pilkingtonwww.redmedicine.xyz

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

Leaders have a tendency to overlook the company's core values posted on their walls or website. What they do not realize is that implementing those core values greatly improves an organization's productivity, employee engagement, motivation, client attraction, and client retention. Implementation of core values is also vital in creating a company culture that supports the organization's vision and goals.In today's podcast episode, we interview Marc Reifenrath, Founder and CEO of Spinutech, a national digital marketing agency which is included in Inc. top 500 high-growth companies. Today's topics are focused on implementing company core values, creating a conducive work culture through feedback, and focusing on team members' growth every single day as they Team Anywhere.Read the FULL SUMMARY HERE!

A Canterbury dad has spoken out after his picture was posted online in a bid to track down suspected fly-tippers. Liam Blackwell says his children are being picked on in school after the image was circulated by Canterbury City Council. Hear what he's had to say at the reaction from the authority. Also in today's podcast, research has found you can book a flight to some European cities for less than the price of train ticket from Kent to London. Commuters have to pay as much as £65 a day if they're travelling from somewhere like Ashford to get to work. That's twice as expensive as a seat on a plane to Barcelona - which we found online for just £30. We've got reaction from campaign group We Own It. A report's revealed what life's like inside a prison housing some of Kent's most notorious killers. Wayne Couzens, David Fuller and Michael Stone among those being held at HMP Frankland - a Category A jail in County Durham. The KentOnline Podcast has been told how a new programme in Kent will hopefully stop young people from ending up in county lines drug gangs. It's called Catch22 and is all about preventing vulnerable youngsters from being targeted - hear from one of the people in charge. And, Kent get their T20 blast campaign under way tonight. The defending champions welcome Somerset to Canterbury - hear from captain Sam Billings and coach Matt Walker.

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.

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.

Henry Hill from Conservative Home starts the show, reflecting on the Prime Minister's speech at the Conservative Party Conference. Johnbosco Nwogbo from We Own It discusses the rise in energy bills. Doctors have been told cut back on medical testing to tackle climate change, and Jason Reed from Young Voices talks about this. Finally, Simon Calder and Mike chat about the latest travel advice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jake Schlachter is an organizer, an agitator, and a advocate. He fights for fairness and the rights of member owners within cooperative organizations like credit unions. He roots out corruption, educates member owners on their rights and shortfalls of their rights, and assists in making the cooperative sector more fair for all. We Own It: weown.it Nutkrack: nutkrack.com Our Website: themadisonianpodcast.com Merchandise: teespring.com/stores/themadisonianpodcast Music Credits: Voices by ASHUTOSH | https://soundcloud.com/grandakt Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

You would think that the sixth largest economy in the world would be able to organise itself to provide decent school meals for its children, but alas… the UK has faltered. It's astonishing that the Manchester United number 10 has done more for hungry schoolchildren than the occupant of Number 10. The former knows all about childhood hunger; the latter thinks the so-called free market can deliver everything. Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by the founder of School Food Matters, Stephanie Slater, and Johnbosco Nwogbo from ‘We Own It' to discuss whether we should be relying on the free market to solve childhood hunger.

You would think that the sixth largest economy in the world would be able to organise itself to provide decent school meals for its children, but alas… the UK has faltered. It’s astonishing that the Manchester United number 10 has done more for hungry schoolchildren than the occupant of Number 10. The former knows all about childhood hunger; the latter thinks the so-called free market can deliver everything. Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by the founder of School Food Matters, Stephanie Slater, and Johnbosco Nwogbo from ‘We Own It’ to discuss whether we should be relying on the free market to solve childhood hunger.

Maddy Jane and Freddie are back and bringing the Heat on all the big news coming from the Washington Football Team. "The Sanchize" Corey Sanchez from the On the Warpath Youtube Channel joins the pod to bring his unique perspective and opinions to all the hot topics this week. It gets real, it gets funny, it gets passionate. These are the moments we stand up for our opinions. These moments, We Own It. HTWeAre!

The cost of a train ticket in Kent has gone up above inflation for the first time since 2014. The price hike normally comes into force in January but was delayed because of the pandemic. But some claim key workers will be hit hardest. We've been speaking to We Own It which campaigns against privatisation of public services. Also in today's podcast, we have analysis and advice for parents as 10 and 11 year-olds find out which secondary school they'll be going to in September. A man who spent years on the streets and now works for Emmaus Dover has been telling his incredible story. And, there's a Golden Globe for the Kent actor who played Princess Diana in The Crown.

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Profit making firms, aided by the government, have seized the opportunity given them by Coronavirus to create a "privatised pandemic" in which billions of pounds have been spent on outsourcing. But to what effect? Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times Investigations Editor Sam Bright, Mary Fitzgerald from Open Democracy, and Pascale Robinson from We Own It. For Open Democracy's legal crowd funder, click here. Plus Sweden's Covid Refugees. How Anders Tegnell's Herd Immunity experiment has forced Keith Begg and Alyssa Bittner to quit the country they loved. Made in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times.

Profit making firms, aided by the government, have seized the opportunity given them by Coronavirus to create a "privatised pandemic" in which billions of pounds have been spent on outsourcing. But to what effect? Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times Investigations Editor Sam Bright, Mary Fitzgerald from Open Democracy, and Pascale Robinson from We Own It. For Open Democracy's legal crowd funder, click here. Plus Sweden's Covid Refugees. How Anders Tegnell's Herd Immunity experiment has forced Keith Begg and Alyssa Bittner to quit the country they loved. Made in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times.

Profit making firms, aided by the government, have seized the opportunity given them by Coronavirus to create a "privatised pandemic" in which billions of pounds have been spent on outsourcing. But to what effect? Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times Investigations Editor Sam Bright, Mary Fitzgerald from Open Democracy, and Pascale Robinson from We Own It. For Open Democracy's legal crowd funder, click here.Plus Sweden's Covid Refugees. How Anders Tegnell's Herd Immunity experiment has forced Keith Begg and Alyssa Bittner to quit the country they loved.Made in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg.Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello! What happens when an economy rewards owning things rather than doing things? Author Brett Christophers argues it’s a recipe for soaring inequality and economic stagnation. We chat to Brett about Britain’s “rentier economy” and what to do about it. Then Pascale Robinson from We Own It explains how the problems play out in public sector outsourcing.AND here’s a taster of our chat with Ed’s former speechwriter Marc Stears about his new book “Out of the Ordinary”. Keep an eye out for the full interview later this week. 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

Why live in anxiety, anger, fear, loneliness...when you don't have to?!? Bob The Builder isn't the only one who can FIX IT, you can too! In this episode, we continue what we started in last week's "OWN IT!" We OWN IT, so we can't FIX IT! You don't have to be stuck living a negative, anxious or sad life. This is precisely why Nena and I started PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS IGTV. We give practical, simple tools in each episode that you can use to FIX IT and live HAPPY and FREE! Come join us and bring a friend along. Share it with those you know who could use some support, hope or encouragement. Contact us Email; Podcast@HappyLife.Studio Voicemail; (425) 200-HAYS (4297) Webpage; www.HappyLife.lol Facebook; www.Facebook.com/HappyLifeStudios Instagram; www.Instagram.com/HappyLife_Studios Twitter; www.Twitter.com/HappyLifStudios YouTube; www.YouTube.com/StevoHays If you would like to help us help others with anxiety, anger, worry or fear www.PayPal.me/StevoHays

 Now just may be the worst of times but it also is an opportunity for credit unions to reinvent themselves, by reimagining their roles and taking an active part in helping to limit what many experts see as a coming eviction crisis, as renters who have suffered enormous economic hardships in the Covid-19 pandemic are put out on the streets. What if credit unions made available emergency loan funds to help renters avoid that outcome?That's the question Jake Schlachter, executive director of We Own It, an organization devoted to reinvigorating the cooperative movement, asks.A starting point is that many credit unions have more set aside than the 7 to 8% excess capital required by the regulator. What if those institutions used some of that money to help renters avoid eviction. What if....Credit unions just might be seen as community heroes.Suddenly, many would know exactly the difference between banks and credit unions.Schlacter has sent out a letter to the CEOs of 1430 credit unions with assets above $100 million and significant excess capital. Here's a link to the letter.Now what happens? Listen to the podcast. You will hear Schlachter's hopes and dreams.This is a challenge to just about every credit union.  But the need is real and the possible payoffs are also real.Want to hear more Schlachter? Here's a podcast I did with him for a different series a year ago.  This one focuses on cooperatives in general with minimal direct references to credit unions.Like what you are hearing? Find out how you can help sponsor this podcast here. Very affordable sponsorship packages are available. Email rjmcgarvey@gmail.comAnd like this podcast on whatever service you use to stream it. That matters.Find out more about CU2.0 and the digital transformation of credit unions here. It's a journey every credit union needs to take. Pronto

This week is the first anniversary of Boris Johnson’s premiership. Nobody imagined that he would get out of the EU just quite so quickly nor did they imagine he would be returned with an 88 majority in the last election. A year on from these achievements he is in a much less comfortable position but with the coronavirus bomb going off in the middle of his premiership his subsequent achievements and failures have been somewhat obscured. So, what about his performance so far: hammering out a deal with the EU employing a “no deal” strategy, if successful, will certainly confound his critics both inside and outside of the Conservative Party but Boris Johnson’s stand in the party’s ideology is still hard to place – is it to the left or to the right and has it changed in the past year? We tempted Steve Norris out of semi political retirement: former conservative candidate for mayor of London, former transport minister and now Tory grandee, who better to ask about Boris Johnson’s leadership one year on?! One of the emerging controversies in the coronavirus story is what has happened to the huge amounts of money the government has thrown at combatting the pandemic: testing, tracing, contacting, all of these things have had a significant amount of resources put into them. However, some are now saying there is a lack of transparency in how the money has been spent and a lack of accountability of the value for money we have received. One such group of campaigners is We Own It who are calling for public services to be run for people not for profit. Their campaigns officer is Pascale Robinson; she is calling for public ownership for public services – not an unexceptional demand but one which has been eroded over the last 30 years. So we asked her about the current situation especially after MPs voted against Clause 17 which was intended to protect health and care services in any international trade agreements and negotiations.

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.

In this episode of Local Energy Rules, host John Farrell speaks with Liz Veazey, Network Director of We Own It, and Chris Woolery, Residential Energy Coordinator at the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development. The three discuss a new Rural Electric Co-op Toolkit and how it will help members democratize their co-ops. | Show page available: https://ilsr.org/rural-electric-coop-toolkit-ler-episode-89/ | Listen to all of our Local Energy Rules podcast episodes at our site: https://ilsr.org/local-energy-rules-podcast-homepage | Don't forget to subscribe, share with your friends, leave a recommendation on our podcast feeds, and join the conversation online using the #LocalEnergyRules hashtag!

In this episode of Local Energy Rules, host John Farrell speaks with Liz Veazey, Network Director of We Own It, and Chris Woolery, Residential Energy Coordinator at the MACED. The three discuss a new Rural Electric Co-op Toolkit.… Read More

Join Lily as she talks with a rep from the US Federation of Worker Owned Cooperatives, and two reps from Columbus worker owned businesses (Pattycake Bakery and Haven Herbs). Are coops the future of workplaces? How do they differ from small businesses owned by partners or families, or large publicly traded companies? How do coops work? Are they all the same, structure-wise? What issues do they have, in employing democracy at work? Can they really scale to larger businesses? Lily also chimes in with her experience working in WO businesses, too!Support the show (https://patreon.com/lilykunning)

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

By Robert McGarvey Corruption. Greed. Ignorance. Racism. Sexism.  Words you don't usually hear spoken about cooperatives.  But brace yourself because in the next hour you will as The Cooperators Podcast talks with Jake Schlachter, founder and executive director of We Own It, a Madison Wisconsin based organization aimed at energizing the 130 million of us who belong to cooperatives in the US to seize control, to put our cooperatives in the directions we want them to go. We have that power. We just have to know it. And use it. We are member owners. We Own It wants to remind us about that. And offer us tips on how best to use our powers. The primary focus of We Own It right now are electric cooperatives and, yes, they have a glorious history. They brought light to the darkness of rural America.  It sounds like a Biblical moment. But now, at many rural electric co-ops, it's more akin to the expulsion from the Garden of Eden.   Board members paid six figures for what many believe are volunteers jobs. Boards with no African Americans serving populations with many African American members. Boards with no women. Boards that could spell solar if you spot them the consonants. And many of those boards also just don't get that adding broadband Internet to their services just may save them for generations to come. Some electric co-ops are grand indeed. Some aren't.  We Own It aims to energize members to transform the latter. We Own It also has its eyes on credit unions which talk a good game of member ownership - but many credit unions fail miserably when it comes to empowering their member owners. Have you ever voted in a credit union election? Ever? The podcast also detours into food co-ops - and what they can teach electric co-ops and what they can learn from other co-ops. BTW, Jim Blaine sits on the board of We Own It. He gets his own podcast here. Other, related podcasts include Stuart Reid (food co-ops) and C. E. Pugh (also food co-ops).  And Chris Mitchell discussed rural broadband and electric co-ops here. To read my interview with scholar Robert Putnam on "Bowling Alone," read my interview here. This is fundamentally a very optimistic podcast. But at times it may seem we stepped into Apocalypse Now and all we can do is mumble the horror, the horror. Buckle up.   Like what you are hearing? The Cooperators Podcast seeks sponsors and supporters to help us spread the word about cooperatives and how they often are the better way. Contact Robert McGarvey to find out what you can do to sustain this podcast.

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.

We RARELY make mistakes on Spoilerpiece, but when we do, we don’t cower or deny it. WE OWN IT, MAN. So we start off episode 202 with a correction (2:59) regarding our DEADPOOL 2 segment from episode 201. Then it’s “Keeping Up with the Jensons” because Kris saw SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (4:39)! Next it’s new movie time. Dave fills Kris and Evan in on Paul Schrader’s FIRST REFORMED (7:25), Evan gives everyone the skinny on BYE BYE GERMANY (17:05), and Dave spoilerpieces one of the saddest movies he’s ever seen, ON CHESIL BEACH (26:53). Finally, Kris and Dave talk about Michael Mann’s THIEF (37:20), which they both saw for the first time. And if you love the show, don’t forget to join our Patreon! Go to the Patreon website and search for “Spoilerpiece.” Kisses!

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.

Having gone from Furious novices to completists in the past couple of weeks, Josh and Adam are all revved up to discuss the latest installment, FURIOUS 7, and share their Top 5 Fast & Furious Moments. Plus, the Filmspotting Madness championship round matchup is set! We talkin' or we racin'? We're definitely just talkin'. This episode is brought to you by MUBI.com. :00-3:07 - Billboard / MUBI 3:07-35:38 - Review: "Furious 7" 2 Chainz and Wiz Khalifa, "We Own It" 36:36-49:38 - Notes / Massacre Theatre 49:38-1:02:19 - Filmspotting Madness Don Omar, Busta Rhymes..., "How We Roll" 1:03:02-1:11:27 - Donations 1:11:27-1:45:33 - Top 5: Fast & Furious Moments 1:45:33-1:49:04 - Close / Outtakes NOTES - Emile Ardolino had a significant career - MT winner: Stephanie Smith LINKS - Josh's review of "Furious 7" - Alison Willmore's F&F Ranking - Nicolas Curcio's EP - "Fast Five" Canyon Jump - Ryan's Blindspot Series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices