Analysis and Comment
Just as respectable physicists once believed in the luminiferous ether, the mainstream commentariat has long been bewitched by the notion that public services are better and more efficiently run by organisations energised by the profit motive
'It is to be hoped the UK will turn the page on this inglorious chapter before it is exposed to the scrutiny of the Luxembourg judges'
'After reading about Jajo the rabbit I decided to register with ALS. I had (have) no intention of working for them. I only wanted to see how far I could go and how incompetent ALS is'
'[...] ALS promised the MoJ something they wanted to hear, something ALS linguists lack – that very same thing professional interpreters of the previous system diligently followed'