27: Feargal Sharkey: Teenage Kicks, Bobby Sands, and saving our rivers
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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The Importance of a Responsible Regulator
Within the next 24 hours, there will be yet another hearing and another select committee in Parliament calling in the chair and chief executive of Thameswater. My argument is, why are we calling in the chairman and CEO of Oford? They're the public appointees. Why are we not holding those people to account for the decisions they've made on our behalf and not some helpless chief executive? If you had to sort of, I hate the concept of apportioning blame, but if you had to apportion blame for the mess that we're in, just go through the various culprits. All of it actually boils down to nothing more than utterly incompetent catastrophic failure of regulation. The impact that
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