{"id":180,"date":"2019-08-08T13:34:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.atlant.is\/?p=180"},"modified":"2021-02-21T20:55:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T18:55:22","slug":"the-benefits-of-privatisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"The benefits of privatisation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former British Airports Authority (now Heathrow Airport Holdings) was privatised under the Airports Act 1986, in July 1987, during Margaret Thatcher&rsquo;s second term as UK&rsquo;s prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.atlant.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dollars-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dollars-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dollars-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dollars-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dollars-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dollars.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the mid 1960s, Terence Conrad was working on the interiors for Heathrow&rsquo;s Terminal 1 and the North Terminal at Gatwick. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2007\/jun\/15\/aterminalcase\">2007 paper<\/a>, he contrasts the brief he received from the then public-owned BAA with the brief Richard Rogers ulteriorly received from private-owned BAA for Heathrow Terminal 5 building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>public-owned BAA&rsquo;s top priority was the public&rsquo;s comfort<\/li><li>private-owned BAA required no seating for the public, for the benefit of the paying customer<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A new kind of apartheid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conrad continues by lamenting how much the private behaves in a greedy fashion each time they are entrusted with a monopoly, citing UK national infrastructures: buses, trains, water, power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France walks down the same hill. Highways, Toulouse airport, natural&nbsp;gas distribution, gambling sector, now Paris airports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who benefits from the crime?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former British Airports Authority (now Heathrow Airport Holdings) was privatised under the Airports Act 1986, in July 1987, during Margaret Thatcher&rsquo;s second term as UK&rsquo;s prime minister. In the mid 1960s, Terence Conrad was working on the interiors for Heathrow&rsquo;s Terminal 1 and the North Terminal at Gatwick. In a 2007 paper, he contrasts the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[76],"authors":[{"term_id":76,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"fred","display_name":"Fred","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ec0326d654fdf9f66e9eb42bb34a9bc4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}