by David Boyle | 9 November 2020 | Blog
Outsourcing and privatisation died at 15:18 on Wednesday 4 November 2020. Or thereabouts. That was of course a misquotation of the great architectural critic Charles Jencks who passed judgement on the failures of inhuman, modernist buildings. It was also when the...
by Lindsay Mackie | 3 October 2020 | Blog, The Absent Corporation
Lindsay Mackie, Andrew Simms and David Boyle argue that the UK test and trace debacle shows why capitalism – critics of which are now banned from school educational materials – isn’t working The testing crisis in which we are now engulfed could...
by Lindsay Mackie | 5 June 2020 | Blog, The Absent Corporation
In the sorry tale of the UK’s response to the corona virus there are many lessons. The current unfolding illumination is how test and trace is destined to fail because of the actions of this and previous governments which have rendered a sensible response to testing...
by Lindsay Mackie | 25 May 2020 | Blog, The Absent Corporation
Sometimes we are enabled to see clearly. A light shines and we have the ‘intake of breath’ moment. One such widely shared moment has been revelations about the brazen breaking by members of the government of their own public safety measures. Another such a moment,...
by David Boyle | 5 August 2018 | Blog
Yes, it is hot. The heat has also added a layer of what I can only describe as degradation to our public services. But before I describe it, I don’t want to be pigeon-holed as someone who believes that all services should be managed by ministers, as they were...
