The fourth episode opens with a sentencing. It’s 2017, and in Aylesbury Crown Court a repeat offender is accused of a terrible crime. Showing little remorse, they are admonished for their behaviour by the judge: ‘Shocking!’ ‘Disgraceful!’ The victim of this disgraceful crime? That would be us.
In this episode, we warn listeners of a great theft of our country’s social, cultural, and natural commons, focusing on the privatisation of the UK’s fresh water, and its subsequent befouling in the name of a better profit margin. We explore the now-alien notion that nature is owned by all, and trace it back to a near-forgotten document enshrined at the same time as the Magna Carta.
In doing so, we are first introduced to one of the West’s most influential and pervasive ideologies, to ‘the water we swim in’: Neoliberalism.
And ask…what would happen if we asked for compensation for what has been stolen from us?
Listen now!
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