I’ve been picking over the structure of this article for some weeks. This wasn’t envisaged as an article at first, I was just aware of a growing discomfort that feels like grit in my shoe, a perpetual niggle and an occasional urge to shout out loud at the television.

The collapse of Carillion has been dissected at length and there have been many iterations of ‘public sector good, private sector bad’ or vice versa.