Here is a brisk piece I wrote over at Business and Politics, denouncing Labour schemes to loot football clubs to promote the ‘mutualisation’ of public services and the ‘democratisation’ of football club ownership.

This is so repulsive and insane an idea that one scarcely knows where to start.

OK, I’ll start here.

A football club in the UK is private property.

It may prosper. It may go bust. That is the business of the people who own the club. No-one else.

Anything else is lumpen communism. 

I’ll end there.