If England water companies had not been privatised: £88.4bn dividend to shareholders would not have been paid. Billions more through intragroup transactions would not have been extracted. Borrowing cost would have been much lower. In public ownership, billions would have gone to infrastructure.

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Just became aware of the right-wing commentator who hammers on about personal responsibility, privatising the NHS, and “victimhood” culture who is now crowdfunding to have the mould removed from the ‘ancient’ farmhouse he bought. The “what if Aesop wrote fables about cunts?” question strikes again.

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As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴

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The Times is an outlet which cares enormously about proper attribution — they see plagiarism as a great evil which must be exposed and expunged. This is what the last month has taught me. You must simply be mistaken /s. In all seriousness: I hope you get a grovelling apology and compensation.

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That's bizarre. I wonder if they thought it was wire copy! (which would not be an excusable assumption of course!)

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