{"id":77081,"date":"2024-08-03T07:20:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T06:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=77081"},"modified":"2024-08-03T13:10:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T12:10:22","slug":"the-pfi-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/08\/03\/the-pfi-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"The PFI disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took part in a Podcast for The National newspaper in Scotland this week, discussing the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). The other guest was Robin McAlpine, although we were not recorded together, but were instead recorded consecutively. That\u2019s a shame. I like time in Robin\u2019s company and I think the feeling is mutual.<\/p>\n<p>This is the resulting episode. It is free on Spotify, but you might suffer an advert or two:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: S4E2: Special edition: Labour&amp;apos;s PFI scandal\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/2WeUmfBaHCTqdwLR6jeF8z?si=ISNVaN0RQ6S8LKDQEt0MUA&t=1854&utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took part in a Podcast for The National newspaper in Scotland this week, discussing the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). The other guest was Robin<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/08\/03\/the-pfi-disaster\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,204,35,118,106,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accounting","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-labour","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77086,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77081\/revisions\/77086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}