by Lindsay Mackie | Jan 18, 2020 | Blog, Open Public Media
New Weather’s Lindsay Mackie says the BBC is vital to our national well-being and Britain’s cultural life, and its time to draw a line and save the BBC from vested interests who hope to profit politically and financially from seeing it wrecked. AND WHEREAS...
by Lindsay Mackie | May 25, 2018 | Blog, Rethinking Economics
The giant services firm Carillion collapsed under the weight of its own greed, hubris and mismanagement in January this year. Earlier this month the excellent Joint Work and Pensions and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Parliamentary produced one of those...
by Lindsay Mackie | Mar 24, 2018 | Blog, Rethinking Economics
Shouting ‘look over there’ while getting on with something nefarious over here is a tried and true tactic. So as the genuine scandal of the appalling Cambridge Analytica unfolds, it’s worth looking at what else is happening. Which brings us to Melrose. This company is...
by Lindsay Mackie | Nov 28, 2017 | Blog
So much to worry about. And now the worry that preoccupies leader writers and politicians to the point of sleeplessness. UK productivity. Its bad. In 2016, Britain has a five-point productivity gap with Spain, a 30-point gap with Ireland, a 34-point gap with Belgium...
by Lindsay Mackie | Nov 3, 2017 | Blog, Rethinking Economics
Systemic corporate failures are leaving our glass of milk half empty… There’s a milk and butter shortage threatened, who would have thought it? And it’s accompanied by the usual, willfully ignorant media jokes about the French croissant becoming a...
