WHEN THE FREE MARKET ISN'T A FREE MARKET

摘要

I sat listening to a recent BBC Radio 4 Today programme's interview with the chair of the Competition Commission with a good deal of exasperation. Exasperation partly because - if it is possible to divine anything much from an announcement of 'emerging thinking' - it sounds as though, once again, the Commission is going to uncover a whole range of abuses by the supermarkets but do absolutely nothing about them. And partly because of the irritatingly authentic voice of the British establishment: everything is very reasonable, very balanced, and Very difficult