FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 7 - Caught on Camera

Thames Water apologises to MPs for ‘confusion’ over £500m loan

Labour MP calls firm’s finances an ‘absolute shambles’ as Ofwat vows it is prepared to put it into administration

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2023

'Cozzie livs' chosen as Macquarie's word of the year

Macquarie Dictionary has selected 'cozzie livs' as its word of the year, reflecting a humorous and informal term for cost of living.

AAP · Nov 27, 2023

Cozzie livs: light-hearted term for cost-of-living crisis named Macquarie dictionary word of the year

Skimpflation and blue-sky flood were also among the editors’ top picks, while Australians voted for generative AI

The Guardian - AU · Nov 27, 2023

London faces water rationing ‘imminently’, claims leading environmentalist

River Action chief executive James Wallace made his comments at a Greater London Authority hearing about Thames Water.

Evening Standard · Jul 11, 2023

Inside the capital’s water crisis — are Londoners’ taps about to run dry?

After years of piling on debt and sucking out profits to pay shareholders rather than improve infrastructure, Thames Water is near collapse — leaving the city 24 hours away from having its supply turned off. Claire Cohen investigates

Evening Standard · Jul 10, 2023

Private equity is failing water companies again. Get these firms back on the stock market

Listing would allow the market to be admirably brutal – inflicting pain on the owners and forcing management changes

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2023

Ex-Thames Water owner accused of ‘money-grabbing’ cuts to Cadent pension scheme

Exclusive: Cadent Gas, owned by Australia asset manager Macquarie, is considering closing its defined benefit scheme

The Guardian - UK · Jul 3, 2023

The Guardian view on private water companies: a disaster made in the City

Editorial: England has become an asset management society with predictably calamitous results

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2023

Now, water bosses, you must show how capitalism can work for the common good

If there’s a lesson to be learned from the collapse of Thames Water, it is that utility giants have to pioneer a new kind of company

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2023

Scottish pension fund’s hidden stake in firm controlling Russian gas pipeline

LOTHIAN Pension Fund has a hidden stake in a firm which runs coal power plants and controls part of a major pipeline transporting Russian

The National (Scotland) · Jul 2, 2023