The collapse of the British government's attempts to privatize its observatories should not be the end of the story. But any future government must take heed of the lessons of a severe, and costly, embarrassment.
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Don't leave it to the market-place. Nature 384, 389 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/384389a0
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