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Author: Lindsay Mackie

Blog The Absent Corporation 

How to save the Royal Mail

26th January 202326th January 2023 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments mick lynch, post, royal mail, unions, universal service obligation

It’s a commonplace to say now that the government got it all wrong when it tried to demonise strikes and

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

The Royal Mail – for public service or private profit?

10th January 202310th January 2023 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments Economics, Finance, Public service

Is it our fault? Are we asleep at the wheel, mildly surprised at the sell-off of much that was thought

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Wild gardens
Blog Rapid Transition 

Re-Green the Village

3rd April 20215th April 2021 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments climate emergency, Easter, gardening, peat

It’s time to put the secateurs, herbicide and peat compost away and let the over-manicured English village return to nature.

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Death of the High Street
Blog The Absent Corporation 

‘Super’ tax break for the company sucking life from high streets

10th March 202110th March 2021 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments corporations, HighStreet, retail, tax

The Chancellor’s recent ‘New Towns’ deal – £1bn for 45 towns (of which 40 just happen to be in Tory

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

The test and trace crisis reveals why capitalism isn’t working

3rd October 20203rd October 2020 Lindsay Mackie 1 Comment COVID-19, Economic policy, privatisation

Lindsay Mackie, Andrew Simms and David Boyle argue that the UK test and trace debacle shows why capitalism – critics

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

How the AA was hollowed-out by Anglo American economics

21st August 202021st August 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments absent corporation, debt, Economics

The world of staycation is bound to lead to those sad scenes by motorways and country roads of the broken

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

Test and What? How official lack of confidence in the public sector worsened the crisis

5th June 202010th June 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments COVID-19, PPE, privatisation

In the sorry tale of the UK’s response to the corona virus there are many lessons. The current unfolding illumination

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

How privatisation designed-in the PPE chaos

25th May 202025th May 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments coronavirus, COVID-19, Economics, health, PPE, privatisation

Sometimes we are enabled to see clearly. A light shines and we have the ‘intake of breath’ moment. One such

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Blog Rapid Transition 

Where do we begin the transition?

18th May 202018th May 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments COVID-19, electoral reform, green new deal, localism

In a recent poll only nine percent of respondents said they wanted to return to the world as it was

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The UK in lockdown
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A Government in charge but in denial of its role

13th April 202013th April 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments covid19, government, NHS

The Government and Professor Chris Whitty, its Chief Medical Officer, have, to be fair,  always told us that this and

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