Arts & Ideas - Free Thinking: Calling to Account: Bronwen Maddox, Margaret Hodge, Matthew Parris.

Free Thinking: Calling to Account: Bronwen Maddox, Margaret Hodge, Matthew Parris.

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Are public enquiries good government? At the end of a year where we have seen the Hillsborough and Chilcot reports are these the best way of calling to account? Margaret Hodge and Bronwen Maddox join Anne McElvoy to discuss. Plus, Matthew Parris considers the concept of scorn and those who are best at pouring it.

Matthew Parris has written an updated version of Scorn: The Wittiest and Wickedest Insults in Human History
Margaret Hodge has written Called To Account: How Corporate Bad Behaviour and Government Waste Combine to Cost Us Millions.
Bronwen Maddox is Director of the Institute for Government

Producer: Craig Smith.

Published on Friday, 16th December 2016.

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