Transport Secretary Stephen Byers today defended his decision to pull the plug on Railtrack and set out plans to replace it with a not-for-profit company. Faced with Tory demands for his ...
Keir Starmer’s Labour government, in power since July, has made an unpopular start. It has managed to seem boring, austere and venal all at once. Thames Water is an opportunity for it to seize the ...
Railtrack developed a culture in which it regarded itself as a dictator and the rest of the industry as "supplicants" begging for favours under former chief executive Gerald Corbett, according to ...