{"id":93937,"date":"2026-07-15T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=93937"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:55:47","slug":"thames-and-the-need-for-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/15\/thames-and-the-need-for-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Thames, and the need for water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/jul\/15\/thames-water-funding-survive-end-of-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this morning,<\/a> as if it is good news:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-93938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-15-at-09.51.26-550x165.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-15-at-09.51.26-550x165.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-15-at-09.51.26-768x230.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-15-at-09.51.26-600x180.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-15-at-09.51.26.png 1220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thames Water might last a year.<\/p>\n<p>The need of the people in the area it serves for water will last in perpetuity.<\/p>\n<p>How is Andy Burnham going to solve that?<\/p>\n<p>The need to do so might be existential.<\/p>\n<p>What is he going to do about neoliberalism running out of road, or maybe water?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian this morning, as if it is good news: Thames Water might last a year. The need of the people in the area<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/15\/thames-and-the-need-for-water\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,35,108,16,74,118,224,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-environment","category-ethics","category-green-new-deal","category-labour","category-neoliberalism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93939,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93937\/revisions\/93939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}