The company whose logo appears on police staff uniforms in the UK and dropped the Olympics contract has far reaching impact on multiple security settings.

The big news story is that G4S, the shambolic security company that botched the London Olympics, has today lost a major prison contract (HMP Wolds, in Lincolnshire), and failed to win any new ones. A hard blow for G4S and its shareholders. The bigger issue is that the UK government continues to privatise prisons, and commercial confidentiality shields the process from public view and democratic accountability.

The latest G4S twist on asylum housing markets – a hostel for asylum seeker mothers and babies in the North East of England.

Critics of the world's biggest security company are banding together. A report from the Stop G4S Convergence campaign.

Electronic monitoring is no substitute for drug and alcohol rehabilitation, mental health support and literacy coaching.

G4S came briefly into the international spotlight due to their failure to fulfil their role as the London 2012 security provider. Yet this debacle was just one in a history of serious cases of negligence. As the company looks to expand further, this track record cannot be consigned to the past. 

As immigration detainees continue to suffer injury, neglect and even death, the charity Medical Justice challenges the apparent impunity of the UK immigration authorities and their commercial contractors.

A terrible day for the UK Border Agency, as Peers describe its culture of disbelief, its abuse of torture victims, the denial of legal representation, dawn raids on pregnant mothers, the perils of outsourcing, ‘loutish and aggressive’ behaviour, deaths by G4S, and that’s not all . . .

Multimillionaire government ministers, close to G4S chief executive Nick Buckles, are a world away from weary soldiers drafted in to rescue the Olympics.