Friday, 26 January 2018

It isn't public versus private, it is small versus big...

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Let me start with a story, which has to be a little obscure to protect the innocent. The government has a Voluntary Repatriation Scheme fo...
Thursday, 11 January 2018

Vindication at last! Thank you, National Audit Office

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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 been. ...
Wednesday, 3 January 2018

The new radical centre requires new radical ideas

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A version of this post first appeared yesterday on the Radix blog... Cast your mind back, if you can, about 160 years to the end of 1858 ...
Tuesday, 12 December 2017

When Southern Rail is like HMS Queen Elizabeth

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This post blew in from www.radix.org.uk ... Yet another miserable journey home with Southern Rail (power supply problems again, or so th...
Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Why we need a whole lot more mavericks

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This blog is adapted from one that first appeared on the Real Press website .. . I met the folk singer Pete Seeger just before he died. H...
Wednesday, 29 November 2017

The Basil Fawlty delusion of Southern Rail, and why it matters

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This post wafted in from the Radix site... The story so far. Govia Thameslink won the franchise to run the Southern rail franchise and t...
Friday, 24 November 2017

The real reason house prices keep going up (it isn't what they say)

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This post first popped up on the  Radix  blog... The author Radical Middle, the campaigner Mark Satin, used the metaphor of roads and m...