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Why does the government create monopolies?
Len Shackleton
20 September 2012
4 comments

  Patrick McLoughlin and Michael Gove are competent and well-thought-of Secretaries of State. As Conservatives, they presumably assert from time to time generalities about the virtues of...
Service with a smile – the market economy and civic virtue
Philip Booth
24 May 2012
3 comments

Michael Sandel is in town at the moment to promote his book How Markets Crowd Out Morals. His article on the subject in the Boston Review is a clever piece that makes some interesting points. But...
Rail versus road
Paul Withrington
16 December 2011
13 comments

Decades of propaganda have established the myth that railways cost much less, are far safer, have much more capacity, use less fuel, less manpower and are far kinder to the environment than road...
Regulation, not privatisation, to blame for inefficient railways
Richard Wellings
24 May 2011
8 comments

The recent history of Britain’s railways has undoubtedly brought the whole concept of privatisation into disrepute. But this is unfair. Rail privatisation was a pastiche of genuine...
Is the Spring of Discontent just a nine-day wonder?
Len Shackleton
26 March 2010
2 comments

After a long and tedious winter, Spring is in the air and the daffodils are coming out. So, unfortunately, are union members. There’s strike activity in the Civil Service over pensions, on...

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