Lindsay Mackie

Lindsay Mackie is a writer, former journalist with The Guardian and a partner in the cooperative think tank, the New Weather Institute. She writes about the diminution of the public state and why that is a really terrible idea.

Privatising Channel 4 would be a win for the government – and a loss for everybody else

From the viewers to the independent producers to the channel’s many employees based outside of London – we all lose at the hands of these proposals

By Lindsay Mackie

/ 14 Sep 2021

Privatising Channel 4 would be a win for the government – and a loss for everybody else