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For anyone interested, I can recommend Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism. Dr. Chang is a Reader of Economics at Cambridge, and is well known for taking free-market ideologies and policies to task, and there is a great chapter where he addresses the, "private will always outperform public" myth. It's aimed at someone with no specialist knowledge of economics, so it can be somewhat simplistic in places, but it does a good job of giving a general critique of free-market, neo-liberal ideology.

Also, as someone who travels by East Coast a few times a year (York to London), I completely agree. East Coast is by far the best service I have ever used; it would be appalling to privatise it.

I have a present for Mr Jones

I don't disagree with the premise, inequality has got out of hand (it is an inherent flaw of capitalism that wealth concentrates) but to say that it is unnatural because of one barely-relevant study is beyond absurd.

The study gives a more nuanced look at what they actually discovered than Owen Jones points out.

There are intelligent voices who speak from the left, Owen Jones is not one of them.

A really good book..showing that not only do we have to..but that we do.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Talking-Terrorists-Face-Enemy/dp/0007325533/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413629845&sr=1-2&keywords=talking+to+terrorists