2 Sep 2014:
In his book The Bad Doctor, Ian Williams explored the life of a troubled family physician. Here, in an exclusive strip for the Guardian, he imagines the future of the NHS ...
1 Sep 2014: Aditya Chakrabortty: Network Rail’s £34bn debt has helped private companies to make huge profits. And now we’re ordered to pick up the bill
Privatisation promised to turn the UK into an island of small shareholders. It failed: the faceless state bureaucrats have been replaced by faceless (better-paid) private bureaucrats – and big foreign corporations. How did we get to this point, asks James Meek