This may not seem realistic or popular for some but is there any merit in the government taking a majority share in entities like the BAA (and other privatised national infrastructure entities) to reign in the profit at all cost mentality that prevails at the BAA? An article in yesterday's Telegraph pointed out that many large airports in the US, for example, are owned by ports authorities or similar. IMHO - and Lord Browne (once of BP) said this too - some things cannot be privatised. He cited water, power and other utilities as examples.