The resistable rise of the Absent Corporation
I have tried to launch some kind of award system over the 18 months or so since the publication of
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The Absent Corporation
‘Super’ tax break for the company sucking life from high streets
The Chancellor’s recent ‘New Towns’ deal – £1bn for 45 towns (of which 40 just happen to be in Tory
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The test and trace crisis reveals why capitalism isn’t working
Lindsay Mackie, Andrew Simms and David Boyle argue that the UK test and trace debacle shows why capitalism – critics
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How the AA was hollowed-out by Anglo American 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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Test and What? How official lack of confidence in the public sector worsened the crisis
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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How privatisation designed-in the PPE chaos
Sometimes we are enabled to see clearly. A light shines and we have the ‘intake of breath’ moment. One such
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Interserve – the return of too big to fail?
Lindsay Mackie looks at the costs and consequences when extractive capitalism is put in charge of providing essential public services,
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Patisserie Valerie – how finance had its cake and ate it…
I have a stake, or at least a pastry, in the story of the failed café chain Patisserie Valerie. In
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Leaking water, draining finance: the case for putting water in public hands
In the middle of a heatwave and drought, it’s not just the leakage allowed by private water companies (as much
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Praising Parliamentary Watchdogs
The giant services firm Carillion collapsed under the weight of its own greed, hubris and mismanagement in January this year.
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