🎓Law Professor @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, CBR, Cambridge + @granthamlse.bsky.social 🌹Labour law, enterprise law, pensions, corporations, human rights 🌍Cares about stopping inequality, climate damage + war 🕸️ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ewan-mcgaugheyhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mlv6bhali22oExcellent paper here by Tarun Khaitan on the need for rank choice voting in this new multi party system. (Same as STV, and preferential voting.) Just do it Parliament, before we get an extremist party that makes Truss look like the teaser trailer. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/73579/britains-electoral-reform-debate-is-too-narrow15 May 2026 10:55 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlv6bhali22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mluyufw2uk23We are failing students for plagiarism if they're found to have used AI without attribution - the easiest evidence is a hallucinated reference. It's a serious offence, especially in a law school. For academic colleagues, just don't use AI to generate references. It is professional misconduct. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 09:19 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mluyufw2uk23https://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mlqcsdqyf22f"Democratic socialism and the law" is my new paper (from my inaugural lecture)- please download! It asks if Milton Friedman was right, that democracy and are incompatible? It answers: "no"! Every wealthy democracy is ever more socialist + we have data to show it.👇 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=671812113 May 2026 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqcsdqyf22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mlonyvx2gs2pCompare this to “£22bn black hole! Wah, wah, wah!” [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 20:48 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlonyvx2gs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mlkz2r4ok22nHow do labour rights affect economic growth? My new paper shows how Labour's flagship Employment Rights Act 2025 became a shadow of its original plan to pursue GDP - sparked by Mandelson - even though GDP often undermines real household wealth. Download ➡️ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=672489911 May 2026 09:56 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlkz2r4ok22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mkz67cu2l22zHappy May Bank Holiday! Time to fulfil the European Social Charter we signed: 📈full employment at fair wages+hours 💷fair pay agreements for all workers+sectors 🟰equality starting with high+equal paid family leave 🗳️worker elected directors 🏖️more paid holidays/3 day weekend rm.coe.int/168007cf93 https://rm.coe.int/168007cf9304 May 2026 07:40 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkz67cu2l22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mkuh2bw36k2nConor Gearty, my late, wonderful human rights teacher, on what the UK government must do to preserve democracy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 May 2026 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkuh2bw36k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mks7qs6idc2iI think they mean South East Water "ownership" needs to change. Government needs to end the failed privatisation experiment with our water. No water company has ever lost its licence, despite regular toxic sewage dumps, and the taps running dry. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 13:19 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mks7qs6idc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mkrgsbm5ek27🚴‍♂️Cycling benefits the economy, driving harms it, mainly due to saving health costs. 🌳Also positive benefits to “security, comfort, branding/tourism, transport times”. ☠️In the UK air pollution kills 40,000 people a year, costing the NHS £6bn a year: Royal College of Physicians (2016) [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 05:52 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrgsbm5ek27https://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mkoxd6gyms2vNorway electrified all new cars in 15 years - from @janrosenow.bsky.social Norwegians pay under half for EV charges vs petrol or diesel. The whole world can do this with the same laws: - end all tax breaks for diesel/petrol - all petrol stations, carparks install chargers - mandate govt buys EVs30 Apr 2026 06:10 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkoxd6gyms2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mkl5snoq3s2xThis sodium battery stores enough energy for the entire UK grid for 1 to 2 hours. Bye bye gas! Bye bye oil! Bye bye coal! Hello 100% clean power - soon to be free for consumers with the right regulation. (Yes: Australia already does 3 hours free electricity a day.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Apr 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkl5snoq3s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mkgajpcxak2cCanada created a new publicly owned developer - Build Canada Homes - to resolve the market failure of big construction rigging prices by refusing to build. Meanwhile, the UK is scratching its head, and cutting affordable targets from 35% to 20% for private co’s. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/26/sludge-in-the-system-myriad-problems-stymie-labours-15m-new-homes-pledge https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/26/sludge-in-the-system-myriad-problems-stymie-labours-15m-new-homes-pledge?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other26 Apr 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkgajpcxak2chttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mkfbnar7qk2y“Brexit will free money for the NHS” Now is: “Brexit costs NHS millions as US drug monopolists demand more money” And powers of Ministers to raise drug prices at Trump’s behest clearly violate of the NHS Act 2006. So Brexit undermines sovereign Parliament. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/26/mps-oppose-wes-streeting-power-to-say-what-nhs-pays-for-drugs-nice26 Apr 2026 09:48 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfbnar7qk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mkdfzkwvuk2hNow over 71,000. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Apr 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdfzkwvuk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mkabjrnt4s2rWe need to rejoin the EU to stop the risk of these kinds of threats transpiring. Medium countries like the UK have no bargaining power in global trade on their own. We need to raise tax on US big tech + then replace it with open source + public option tech. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/trump-tariff-uk-digital-services-tax-warning24 Apr 2026 10:03 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkabjrnt4s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mk5taleku225IEA: “the world has entered the Age of Electricity.” “The absolute increase of solar PV generation in 2025 is the largest ever observed for any source”. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/global-growth-in-solar-the-largest-ever-observed-for-any-source/23 Apr 2026 10:42 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5taleku225https://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mk3u43hw522eIt took *15 days* for Anthropic Inc's self-confessed dangerous software to have (possibly) been leaked. Who could've guessed? https://www.ft.com/content/56d65763-69fe-4756-baf4-c8192b7aadaf?syn-25a6b1a6=122 Apr 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3u43hw522ehttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mjtlqaonsc2vOver 56,000 people demand water is put into public ownership, want a referendum if government won’t budge, and have signed this petition in under 2 weeks. If it gets to 100,000 it has to be debated in Parliament. 82% of people want publicly owned water. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76264019 Apr 2026 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjtlqaonsc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mjpjcim4cs2vIf every petrol + gas station had to do this, people would being buying only EVs in no time. Guess what? Under the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 the UK government can do just this - make every station instal electric charge points. It should do that now.17 Apr 2026 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpjcim4cs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mjp2ytg5g22jFairly simple political path: Step 1: join single market. Step 2: rejoin the EU. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/17/half-britons-support-rejoining-eu-10-years-brexit-vote17 Apr 2026 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjp2ytg5g22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mjozovsjvc2jNo justification for giving tax breaks for petrol vehicles any more. It harms business, consumers and the environment- put the money into drivers’ pockets instead of the pockets of Shell and BP shareholders: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/17/new-uk-electric-car-price-petrol-ev-autotrader17 Apr 2026 13:27 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjozovsjvc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mj67brdioc2pDoes Thames Water have £15-19bn value? It does according to consultants hired by... Thames Water. But on any credible view of the law, TW is worth £0 - which is why shareholders like USS wrote off their stake. This blog is full of serious errors, and unfortunately repeats the worst lobbyist lies.👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Apr 2026 20:52 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj67brdioc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mj55g76sis2yHow do we stop private equity being subsidised by government for sacking British workers? We ensure enterprise liability trumps limited corporate liability - so people pay their debts, instead of profiting from wrongs. Excellent story by @willdunn.bsky.social https://www.newstatesman.com/business/2026/04/when-a-foreign-billionaire-sacks-british-workers-the-taxpayer-gets-the-bill10 Apr 2026 10:46 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj55g76sis2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/ewanmg.bsky.social/post/3mj2kt7z3422aWe need public funding and public options to replace Big Tech corporations that threaten democracy and society. Stop Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, and Page/Brin calling the shots + profiting by exploiting our data. But how? This is an excellent read, very carefully written + thought through.👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Apr 2026 10:08 +0000at://did:plc:oaolac3s2bwfnitagj4lf4us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2kt7z3422a