Know Your Enemy

"A story of recklessness, hubris and greed."

The report into the collapse of Carillion by the Work & Pensions and the Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy committees offers a glowing recommendation for the practice of contracting out public services to private businesses.

And as if to underscore the point, it's also been announced that the East Coast train line is to be taken back into government control for the third time in a decade. At what point are the Tories going to acknowledge that privatisation doesn't work?