Currently listening to Any Questions on BBC Radio 4.
It seems an unusually bad-tempered programme, with lots of booing from the audience.
Although I agree with Owen Jones that some services need to be public ownership, he does not explain how they are going to be "accountable to us". The public sector has a tendency to inefficiency because there are too many hiding places. Perhaps directly elected chiefs of public services might be the answer.
But on the whole the programme was predictable, and the entrenched positions made it boring. Norman Lamont was right to say that Owen Jones is a prisoner of his ideology. And Kelvin MacKenzie hasn't yet realised that 1990s boorishness is long out of fashion.
It seems an unusually bad-tempered programme, with lots of booing from the audience.
Although I agree with Owen Jones that some services need to be public ownership, he does not explain how they are going to be "accountable to us". The public sector has a tendency to inefficiency because there are too many hiding places. Perhaps directly elected chiefs of public services might be the answer.
But on the whole the programme was predictable, and the entrenched positions made it boring. Norman Lamont was right to say that Owen Jones is a prisoner of his ideology. And Kelvin MacKenzie hasn't yet realised that 1990s boorishness is long out of fashion.
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