Saturday 21 January 2012

Chinese Water Feature

Nine per cent of Thames Water is once again state-owned.

The state in question is China.

George Osborne is delighted.

5 comments:

  1. Sorry to go off topic, but just read your 15th December article on the EU in the London Progressive Journal. From that to your women bishops/importance of fatherhood article in the May edition of New Directions - you have certainly written for an eclectic selection of publications in 2011. Here's to more of the same in 2012.

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  2. Everyone who is anyone in the C of E reads New Directions, and that remarkable article has had a real influence. You have more in that now than you ever had when you were Anglican yourself.

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  3. The LPJ? David Lindsay on the same bill as George Monbiot and Peter Tatchell? Yes, indeedy. As the first comment says, you certainly get around.

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  4. It is ironic that privatized Western utilities will end up being state-owned anyway, only now it will be foreign states and not one's own country.

    The only upside I can think of is that some foreign state-owned enterprises are really excellent companies. I would rather fly Singapore Airlines than any of the private U.S. carriers.

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