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Published in: openSecurityThe creation of a border security state
Americans may increasingly wonder whether NSA agents are scouring their meta-data, reading their personal emails,...
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Published in: ourNHSNuffield Trust report exposes Tory lies on Welsh NHS
David Cameron claimed last week that the Welsh border was "the dividing line between life and death". A new Nuffield...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy we should all be alarmed about our new university 'businesses' and their enforcers
As has become clear, the universities are colluding with police and even the unions to clamp down on student protest...
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Published in: ourNHSDon't believe Cameron's hype - the Welsh NHS has much to teach the English
Cameron this week labelled the Welsh NHS 'a scandal', and some Blairites have echoed him. But Wales is 'doing more...
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Published in: ourNHSShock U-turn as sell-off of George Eliot hospital cancelled
The planned sell-off of George Elliott hospital has been cancelled, hailed as a "victory for common sense" by unions...
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Published in: ourNHSTory links of health agencies exposed as Hunt lines up next NHS sell-off in England
Whilst understaffed wards and surgeries turn to well-connected private sector agencies to fill the gaps created by...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe student loan privatisation must be resisted
Selling off the student loans will actually cost the government more, as well as the students - but it'll be a...
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Published in: ourNHSLondon's NHS at the crossroads
A duty of candour for NHS managers and ending cash-driven closures - those are amongst the recommendations of the...
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Published in: ourNHSOutsourcing cancer care - the biggest and most reckless NHS privatisation yet?
Outsourcing over a billion pounds of cancer and end-of-life services is reckless and shows just how threadbare...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCaroline Lucas MP is wrong: the Public Service Users Bill is a bad idea
We need to get rid of the unfair advantages enjoyed by the privatisers but let’s not undermine democracy in a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy the universities strikes are about more than just a ‘measly’ pay offer
It's not just the money, it's the direction our marketised universities are taking - enormous rewards at the top...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTime for a popular solution to the perils of privatisation
Caroline Lucas has launched the Public Service Users Bill in parliament, a critical first step to ending Britain's...
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Published in: ourNHSThe NHS - my part in its downfall
I have broken the NHS in to digestible bits ripe for being eaten up by private companies, confesses an NHS clinician.
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Korea: rail workers, repression and resistance
An almost unreported strike in South Korea, which has just come to an end, epitomises how a ‘free’ market can be...
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Published in: ourNHSNHS regulations are unfair: they’ll stop us tax dodging!
The healthcare companies taking over NHS provision are lobbying regulators to allow their tax avoidance schemes to continue.
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Published in: ourNHSCampaign guide - NHS Privatisation
The Health & Social Care Act 2012 paved the way for rapidly accelerating NHS privatisation in England - read on for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe I word
When you hear a politician or a company boasting about "investment", always ask what the investors are getting in return.
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Published in: ourNHSA single stitch? $500 please
Hospital costs soar in the US, showing the failings of the marketised system just as England races towards it.
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Published in: ourNHSWho cares? Market forces, social care and the NHS
It's the competitive market in social care that has hammered down standards. The NHS must not follow care homes down...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWould the NHS fall apart without private providers?
The NHS needs private provision like ambulances, but needs to regulate them better, suggests a voice from the private sector.