His books include Struggle for Take-Off and A History of British Airways (1986). His latest book is Follow the Money: The Audit Commission, Public Money and the Management of Public Services 1983-2008.He has worked as a management consultant with McKinsey in the 1980s, briefly as a consultant to the Audit Commission in 1989, and since then in corporate communications roles with Pearson plc, The Maitland Consultancy and Rolls-Royce plc.