glowingfish

Meanwhile, UK airports are mostly private, or at least a public/private mix. Heathrow is fully privately owned, for one. Only a few UK airports are publicly owned, and these are mostly small ones in Scotland or Cornwall. The UK government itself has not owned any for almost 40 years.

We'd generally draw a distinction here between socialism and socialised, I think, except that we don't use the latter much. One of the most common tell-tales of an American on Twitter pretending to be British is if they start referring to the NHS as "socialised medicine". That term is virtually never used by actual British people.