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Privatisation

April 2023

  • illustration of natwest group logo on a smartphone next to a share price chart

    UK extends plan to sell off its shares in NatWest by another two years

    Recent banking turmoil fuels decision to extend trading plan for second time to 2025

March 2023

  • CORRECTS BYLINE TO PETTY OFFICER 2ND CLASS JUSTIN UPSHAW INSTEAD OF PETTY OFFICER 3RD CLASS HUNTER SCHNABEL - In this photo made available by the U.S. Coast Guard, guardsmen from the cutter James, seen at background right, conduct a boarding of a fishing vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, on Aug. 4, 2022. During the 10-day patrol for illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing, three vessels steamed away. Another turned aggressively 90 degrees toward the James, forcing the American vessel to maneuver to avoid being rammed. (Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin Upshaw/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The Guardian view on the UN ocean treaty: arriving just in time

    Editorial: A new legal order in the high seas must prevent marine riches from being monopolised or privatised

February 2023

  • Zoe Williams

    Tory MPs don’t take buses – they just destroy them for the rest of us

    Zoe Williams
  • Clinical staff at work in a hospital. ‘Insourcing’ deals are increasing NHS reliance on the private sector to cut waiting lists’

    NHS consultants run private firms charging to cut waiting lists at their own hospitals

  • Prisoners congregate in a cell area at HMP Berwyn in Wrexham, Wales.

    The Guardian view on the probation service: a crunch has been building for years

  • Rishi Sunak visit to Croydon<br>Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks with patient Catherine Poole during a visit to Croydon University Hospital, south London. Picture date: Friday October 28, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Health. Photo credit should read: Leon Neal/PA Wire

    The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s NHS plans: ramping up private medicine

January 2023

  • A vigil for for Zara Aleena in Ilford, east London, last year.

    Zara Aleena was failed by a privatised probation service

    Letters: Sue Hobbs outlines the inaccurate risk assessments of the young woman’s murderer, while Sarah Compton says nothing has changed since the murder of her brother in 2015
  • Sewage polluting the River Coln, at Fairford, Gloucestershire, this January

    Thames Water’s real-time map confirms raw sewage discharges

    Effluent in Gloucestershire river pinpointed by digital map as water companies accused of routinely pumping out waste to rivers
  • Michelle Donelan

    Culture secretary ‘recommends dropping Channel 4 privatisation’

    Michelle Donelan has reportedly written to PM saying ‘pursuing a sale at this point is not the right decision’

December 2022

  • Chuka Ummuna joined investment bank JP Morgan in 2021 to lead its ESG work.

    Chuka Umunna advises Czech tycoon accused of Royal Mail plot

  • Rail passengers at King's Cross railway station, London

    UK rail system described as ‘broken’ as 2022 data reveals extent of disruption

  • A TransPennine Express train (left) outside Manchester Piccadilly station.

    Passengers are rightly angry about our northern railways – as a driver, I’m mortified

    Secret Train Driver
  • An NHS hospital ward

    Tory neglect of the NHS is leading more and more people to go private

  • Poor performance now ‘the norm’ for some water firms, warns Ofwat

  • Today in Focus
    What’s gone wrong with England’s water?

  • Ofwat attacks water firms’ lack of investment to cut sewage discharges

  • Following the money in the privatised water industry

  • England and Wales’s broken water system can be fixed – here’s what to do first

    Dieter Helm

  • England’s water can be renationalised without compensation, activists say

November 2022

  • Aerial view of the Walthamstow reservoirs and wetland, stylised for waterseries

    Revealed: more than 70% of English water industry is in foreign ownership

    Guardian unpicks complex web of investment firms, wealth funds and tax haven-based businesses that own most of sector
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