88 months and counting | Andrew Simms

Is the Vestas case merely a symbolic blip, or something more interesting? Dim hope can be found in this dismal affair

Picture the scene. It's the beginning of the second world war. Germany's industrial war machine is in full production and Hitler is advancing across Europe. Back in England, the government decides that the cost and planning complications of building tanks and aircraft are just too great and lets the factories – who would be willing to build if there was a demand for them –...