Published Articles.

Mar 6, 2018

Water privatisation is a burst-pipe dream

Last year Thames Water was hit with a £20m fine for polluting the waterways of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire with a billion and a half...

Jan 16, 2018

Both the left and right have their ideological blinkers on when it comes to Carillion’s failur

Psychologists have identified a phenomenon they call “confirmation bias”. This is the tendency for people to interpret new information in...

Nov 16, 2017

INTERVIEW: Jean Tirole

Jean Tirole throws his head back and laughs. “You’re kidding!” he exclaims. I’m not kidding, I insist. It’s true. I explain to him, once...

Sep 27, 2017

Would renationalisation work? It depends on whether you live in 1945 or 1979

For Labour it’s the glad confident morning of 1945 all over again. “Rail, water, energy, Royal Mail – we’re taking them back,” John...

Aug 14, 2017

A ‘left-wing Brexit’ is a dangerous delusion

If Labour supporters want a glimpse of what Jeremy Corbyn’s 2017 general election manifesto would look like in practice, they don’t have...

May 14, 2017

Europe shows that nationalised industries don’t have to be 1970s-style disasters

If you want to go “back to the Seventies” you don’t need to hope Jeremy Corbyn enters Downing Street on 9 June and hoists the red flag...