Mathew Lawrence

Lucky to call @adribuller a friend, colleague & now, co-author🎉 "Owning the Future" is out today from @VersoBooks It traces how extractive ownership models connect & drive our age of crisis & how reimagining property relations can secure abundance. versobooks.com/books/3981-own…

“The price of electricity turns not just on what technology powers the grid, but on the architecture of the energy system itself”. Our Director @dantonshead on the Iran crisis and how a public energy system can best deliver affordability. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Ryan Cooper profiles Common Wealth, a new lefty think tank focused on public ownership, public provision, and state capacity. Says one of its leaders: “In the long run, fixing these problems makes everything that everyone wants to do cheaper.” prospect.org/2025/10/31/how…

@Cmmonwealth' s Green Planning Commission launches today! Delighted to join the project as a Commissioner.

So thrilled to be a part of the Green Planning Commission with so many smart progressive thinkers! I can't wait to support @Cmmonwealth in coordinating the future of climate policy. Excited to bring progressive public finance to bear on our energy and affordability crises😎☀️

🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.  A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.  To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.  🧵 Here’s why.  common-wealth.org/green-planning…

🎉 Join us in London to launch the Green Planning Commission — rethinking the politics and practice of planning for a democratic and decarbonised future. 🎙️ Carolina Alves, @BrusselerMel, Richard Kozul-Wright & @DantonsHead 🪑 @sarahnanks 🔗 eventbrite.com/e/launch-the-g…

Read Adam Hanieh's urgent piece on Middle East oil, militarism and the transformation of world order “For the US, this deepening fossil fuel expansion — tied to its strategic alliance with the Gulf monarchies and their normalisation with Israel — is a crucial source of power.”

"In almost every field, when you look at what the Marxist or Marxisant or “radical” historians have done, what they have been or are debating, it’s often incomparably richer and more commanding than the liberal historiography." thenation.com/article/cultur…

Later today, we launch @TransitionSec to investigate military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats. For the launch, Patrick Bigger and I wrote for @jacobin about militarisation on a burning planet. jacobin.com/2025/10/milita…

Super excited to be associated with this new transatlantic project on demilitarization and decarbonization. Please sign up for the online panel featuring the best: @LalehKhalili @triofrancos @stephensemler and @IliasAlami.

The cost of living crisis is coming back and it could crush ⁦@UKLabour⁩ - great piece by ⁦@DantonsHead⁩ aka Mathew Lawrence theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"Everyone should be able to afford a decent and dignified life. Confronting the cost of living crisis will require addressing the business models that have hollowed out Britain’s foundations and left the public to pick up the tab." @DantonsHead theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Really excellent by Mathew Lawrence on the connections between privatisation and the cost of living crisis

The government are in a bind of their own making. New piece on how to spring their own trap and make life's essentials affordable. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"You could think of this privatisation premium as a poll tax that nobody voted for." Our Director @DantonsHead on making life's essentials affordable and ending the rip-off. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain.   A country remade by privatisation.  Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life. 🧵

Free Gifts is officially out today!!

Where does progressive economic policy go from here? By the great @vebaccount in his @Cmmonwealth debut!

Free Gifts by @alybatt is a remarkable, important work of sophisticated Marxist theory informed by spectacularly detailed analysis of our actually-existing capitalist world—and beautifully written at that. It’s about nature but also everything. Wow. Convo this fall @thedigradio.

Conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of a group.