Mar 6, 2018Water privatisation is a burst-pipe dreamLast year Thames Water was hit with a £20m fine for polluting the waterways of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire with a billion and a half...
Jan 16, 2018Both the left and right have their ideological blinkers on when it comes to Carillion’s failurPsychologists have identified a phenomenon they call “confirmation bias”. This is the tendency for people to interpret new information in...
Nov 16, 2017INTERVIEW: Jean TiroleJean Tirole throws his head back and laughs. “You’re kidding!” he exclaims. I’m not kidding, I insist. It’s true. I explain to him, once...
Sep 27, 2017Would renationalisation work? It depends on whether you live in 1945 or 1979For Labour it’s the glad confident morning of 1945 all over again. “Rail, water, energy, Royal Mail – we’re taking them back,” John...
Aug 14, 2017A ‘left-wing Brexit’ is a dangerous delusionIf Labour supporters want a glimpse of what Jeremy Corbyn’s 2017 general election manifesto would look like in practice, they don’t have...
May 14, 2017Europe shows that nationalised industries don’t have to be 1970s-style disastersIf you want to go “back to the Seventies” you don’t need to hope Jeremy Corbyn enters Downing Street on 9 June and hoists the red flag...