Moody’s has stripped the UK of its AAA credit rating, the first cut since the 1970s. An activist researcher says governments should do more to expose and prosecute misconduct and incompetence by the too-powerful ratings agencies.
A citizen journalist interrogates the privatisation of National Savings & Investments (NS&I), where Atos have taken over the contract and services have, perhaps predictably, contracted.
The national broadcaster fails to inform the public that ‘independent’ research urging more prison privatisation was funded by private prisons contractors.
Starting this week, eleven million workers in companies without a pension scheme will be automatically enrolled into a new pension fund. It’s called, reassuringly, NEST (National Employment Savings Trust). But it’s managed by scandal-hit investment banks. We republish Mel Kelly’s exposé from Octob
Commercial companies are covertly using wi-fi scanning equipment to collate large databases of what in offline contexts is considered private information. With details about the sharing of this data so unclear, the government should consider an immediate ban on such technologies as the starting po
In light of the LIBOR scandal, UK media has paid little attention to the formation of the European Stability Mechanism, an autonomous body which will take over the handling of banking loans from governments across the Eurozone. In a context of interest rate fixing and widespread dodgy accounting,
Police privatisation is one part of a bigger story in the UK. With precious little public scrutiny the world’s largest security company has gained astonishing influence over our government and our lives
