Outsourcing and privatisation died at 1518 on Wednesday 4 November 2020. Or thereabouts. That was of course a misquotation of the great architectural critic Charles…
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I find the current conservatism of the UK left dispiriting these days – the way they don’t so much seek after solutions as defend existing…
The latest meme that is taking flight is that a UK trade deal with the US would somehow mean giving up the NHS. This was…
I’m not being vainglorious – I did have a part to play, and it gives me no pleasure to say so. Let me explain. Horton…
I have just been travelling in Italy, largely by train. I found the trains modern, clean and comfortable. All the trains I took left and…
I remember some years ago a TV documentary called ‘why do people hate Ryanair’. I found it so influential that I never flew with them…
I never went inter-railing, as so many of my friends did in the 1970s, but I have now to mark the imminent arrival of my…
I was interviewed by the new television news arm of the Financial Times a couple of weeks back, and realised – perhaps a little reluctantly –…
I was a little late last night and nearly missed the Nesta event in London to launch the report they wrote with Osca. But I’m…
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…
It is a strange thing, vouchsafed to few of us, to find ourselves vindicated by the National Audit Office of all people. Yet I have…
Yet another miserable journey home with Southern Rail (power supply problems again, or so they say), I found myself thinking about Britain’s brand new aircraft…