Bye-bye Kier Group, and Serco, G4S etc…

Bye-bye Kier Group, and Serco, G4S etc…

Outsourcing and privatisation died at 15:18 on Wednesday 4 November 2020. Or thereabouts. That was of course a misquotation of the great architectural critic Charles Jencks who passed judgement on the failures of inhuman, modernist buildings. It was also when the...
It isn’t public versus private, it is big versus small

It isn’t public versus private, it is big versus small

Let me start with a story, which has to be a little obscure to protect the innocent. The government has a Voluntary Repatriation Scheme for asylum-seekers and refugees who find their home has changed, and who get employment back there. The scheme is administered by...