Returning the UK’s privatised services to the publicLabour’s plan for renationalisation is popular but how costly — and effective — would it be?Video: Why did the UK sell off the railways?Merits of privatisation need to be restatedPrivate provision of public services cannot survive on dogma alonePFI: hard lessons on growing cost of public-private dealsThe contracts that were meant to build schools and hospitals on a budgetRail: frustration grows with Britain’s fragmented networkPrivatisation was meant to deliver competition, innovation and improved service, but has it delivered?Pioneering Britain has a rethink on privatisationOnce a leader in selling off utilities, many in UK now think investors have run rings around regulatorsMore from this SeriesMomentum stalls on UK’s private prisonsCompetition helps improve jail standards but early advantages start to fadeListen: Is Britain's privatisation model broken?Royal Mail continues to show how privatisation can deliverIt may be profiting from former public-sector work but it’s nothing like CarillionNationalising utilities is the wrong answer to a real questionShifting ownership would not solve the problems facing the rail and utility industriesOfwat: watered down Premium contentThe latest regulatory review is tough, but not unduly soCarillion’s private failure is a public problemGovernment contractors, like banks, need a clear resolution regimeProtect faith in privatised monopolies with tougher regulationAn overhaul of industry watchdogs will head off calls for renationalisationThames Water: the murky structure of a utility companyAs raw sewage poured into London’s rivers, the water supplier awarded huge dividends to investorsThe pendulum swings against privatisationEvidence suggests that ending state ownership works in some markets but not others
Returning the UK’s privatised services to the publicLabour’s plan for renationalisation is popular but how costly — and effective — would it be?Video: Why did the UK sell off the railways?Merits of privatisation need to be restatedPrivate provision of public services cannot survive on dogma alonePFI: hard lessons on growing cost of public-private dealsThe contracts that were meant to build schools and hospitals on a budgetRail: frustration grows with Britain’s fragmented networkPrivatisation was meant to deliver competition, innovation and improved service, but has it delivered?Pioneering Britain has a rethink on privatisationOnce a leader in selling off utilities, many in UK now think investors have run rings around regulatorsMore from this SeriesMomentum stalls on UK’s private prisonsCompetition helps improve jail standards but early advantages start to fadeListen: Is Britain's privatisation model broken?Royal Mail continues to show how privatisation can deliverIt may be profiting from former public-sector work but it’s nothing like CarillionNationalising utilities is the wrong answer to a real questionShifting ownership would not solve the problems facing the rail and utility industriesOfwat: watered down Premium contentThe latest regulatory review is tough, but not unduly soCarillion’s private failure is a public problemGovernment contractors, like banks, need a clear resolution regimeProtect faith in privatised monopolies with tougher regulationAn overhaul of industry watchdogs will head off calls for renationalisationThames Water: the murky structure of a utility companyAs raw sewage poured into London’s rivers, the water supplier awarded huge dividends to investorsThe pendulum swings against privatisationEvidence suggests that ending state ownership works in some markets but not others
