BERNARD HUGHES provides a quick before-and-after survey of three areas of transport to help illustrate the marketisation issue
Let me start with some caveats. First, it deliberately takes no ideological position about the question of public ownership of the means of providing public services. It’s a strictly mechanical cui bono look at the results.
Secondly, why only [...]
Labour should stop panicking about the rail crisis and accept the challenge, says Bernard Hughes. It could change the current system without losing political face.
The last decade has been one of very few certainties in politics. Yet railway policy was one of the few areas in which you thought you knew where you were. [...]
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