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Cat Hobbs

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Opinion

Government doubles down on £100 billion water nationalisation price tag – but are they coming clean on the true cost of publicly owned water?

Cat Hobbs
18 September, 2025

The current cost is based on a discredited report funded by the private water companies.

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Opinion

How Labour can make public ownership of the railways a success

Cat Hobbs
22 November, 2024

The Passenger Railway Services Bill is only the first step to take back our railways

Campaigners holding signs reading "No health selloff" and "Stop privatising our NHS"

The new Health and Care Bill is a charter for corruption

Richard Burgon Cat Hobbs
22 November, 2021

‘This new Bill that will be voted on in parliament this week should really be called the NHS Corporate Takeover Bill.’

Virgin train

How privatisation has ‘failed us all for decades’

Cat Hobbs
1 October, 2021

We Own It director Cat Hobbs argues ‘privatisation is an extreme ideological experiment’

How a new re-organisation could hand more of our NHS to privateers like Richard Branson

Cat Hobbs
19 October, 2018

So-called Integrated Care Providers could tear chunks off our health service and put them in the hands of private companies.

Five reasons we should take Facebook into public ownership

Cat Hobbs
13 September, 2017

Tech companies increasingly have monopolies over our online lives. It’s time for all of us to own them.

Five reasons not to trust George Osborne with Britain’s national treasures

Cat Hobbs
6 July, 2015

Worried about privatisation? What to watch out for in Wednesday’s budget

The sell offs George Osborne doesn’t want you to know about

Cat Hobbs
24 June, 2015

Once our public services have been sold to make profits for a wealthy few, we can’t get them back.

Fiddling with flower pots – why real democracy means public ownership

Cat Hobbs
29 September, 2014

Voters would be more likely to vote for a party that promotes public ownership by a ratio of 4:1.

Five ways Labour can give power to public service users

Cat Hobbs
22 April, 2014

People want a greater say when it comes to public services, according to most polling. Here’s how Ed Miliband can start to give it to them.

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