ewanmg.bsky.social
🎓Law Professor @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social + CBR, Cambridge
🌹Labour law, enterprise law, pensions, corporations, human rights
🌍Cares about economic democracy, reversing climate damage + making big tech safe
🕸️ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ewan-mcgaughey
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Judgment comes on 14 April on whether RWE is liable in German nuisance law, from the Upper State Court in Hamm.
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What you’re really after is universal fair incomes:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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I do not know but if it is an unwise investment there’s a good chance the geniuses at USS will want to do it!
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Labour has now presented a new Employment Bill.
There are several areas in which it could be significantly expanded, such as workplace democracy & collective bargaining — see @ewanmg.bsky.social’s briefing from November 2024 on the Employment Rights Bill:
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
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And water bills up 35% over 5 years from Ofwat in London - more elsewhere…
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Here’s the article - I think there’s nothing difficult. Price rises can come later. At some point the £3bn loan will be paid for by someone. Meanwhile bondholders are trying to get rich quick.
www.mirror.co.uk/money/thames...
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Full interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9TI...
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Good question - Ofwat said bills can rise by 35% over the next five years. So that's one way. But then Thames Water's also challenging that limit with the Competition and Markets Authority. A second way. And then a third way is that instead of massive bill rises, you could get even more pollution.
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Their opponents sadly back the failed status quo of:
- thousands of members lost since 2019
- a union staff so demoralised it's repeatedly on strike
- starting disputes and failing to win ballots
- not a single court case brought to uphold members' rights
So vote for progress, and you'll get it!
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It's time to end the failed experiment of privatisation.
Customers shouldn't foot Thames Waters' bill today.
Public safety, health and dignity must come first.
See our briefing with @ewanmg.bsky.social 🔗⬇️
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
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Some students pointed out to me that in the WeChat terms and conditions the app could not be used to criticise the Chinese government - apparently even in the UK. I wonder if DeepSeek has an equivalent?
WeChat here👇
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17 Dutch court orders country’s government to meet its own goals for reducing overall nitrogen emissions by 2030 or face millions in fines
x.com/AssaadRazzou...
Climate anxiety is real, widespread and intensifying. This 5+ years weekly thread⬆️ shows climate action is widespread and has momentum
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15 Australian logging company withdraws plans to log rainforest in the Solomon Islands after lengthy protests from the local community
16 Sweden plans ban on bottom trawling in marine protected areas
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12 China Energy Investment Corp., country’s biggest power producer, hits renewable target ahead of schedule
13 India to beat its 500GW 2030 renewables target
14 Dutch court orders government to meet pollution reduction targets or face millions in fines
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5 Australia in $1.2b green aluminium production credit to switch smelters to renewables by 2036
6 Record year for German wind in 2024, with 2,400 new onshore turbines approved
7 Coal power in EU down 61% over past decade
8 Norway on track for 100% of new cars to be electric by 2025
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