Monthly Archives: January 2018

Last week’s House of Commons report on Carillion is damning. Frances has an excellent summary of it here but the key points are these. In the words of the report, the company was borrowing without investing. Its debt increased but … Continue reading →

Is the collapse of Carillion a watershed moment? Robert Peston thinks so: Carillion’s collapse marks the end of a 25-year love affair between Tory and New Labour governments on the one hand and private-sector service providers on the other. Could … Continue reading →

An FT editorial declared last year that divisions between left and right no longer explain how voters think. In September Intelligence Squared ran a debate on Britain’s Political Identity Crisis and the dissolving of left and right into new political tribes. … Continue reading →