Privatisation

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• Increasing corporate profits should not be a public policy goal

  11 Sep 2014: Letters: The Conservative party and UKIP appear content to surrender vast swaths of UK sovereignty to multinational companies

• 'Poison pill' privatisation contracts could cost £300m-£400m to cancel

  11 Sep 2014:

  'Unprecedented' clauses guarantee firms 10 years of profits even if new government scraps controversial probation contracts

• Labour backing as MPs give the go-ahead to child protection outsourcing plans

  10 Sep 2014: Labour criticises regulations to enable councils to contract out safeguarding services to charities - but waves them through anyway

• State-owned East Coast paid £225m to Treasury – but still faces privatisation

  9 Sep 2014:

  Transport union leader says reprivatisation of most popular long-distance railway franchise is 'all about Tory dogma'

• Moving beyond left and right could save the public sector

  8 Sep 2014: Zoe Williams: In a landscape of outsourcing, social enterprises can counter the culture that has hollowed out our services

• Unions say planned international trade deal poses threat to NHS

  7 Sep 2014:

  Transatlantic trade and investment partnership may make the outsourcing of national health services in Britain permanent

• Northern commuters face big rise in fares for evening travel

  7 Sep 2014: Extension of peak rail fares hits travellers in Leeds, Manchester, Bradford, Sheffield and Newcastle

• Royal Mail sell-off helps Hargreaves Lansdown make record profits

  3 Sep 2014:

  Retail broker made pre-tax profits of £209.8m after record number of people bought Royal Mail shares through company

• A sick joke: the NHS in 2024, as seen by GP and graphic novelist Ian Williams

  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 ...

• And so the Great British Railway Rake-Off rolls on

  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

• Calls for greater disclosure on NHS chiefs' meetings with private US health insurer

  30 Aug 2014: Critics warn of more privatisation as UnitedHealth leads firms seeking £1bn worth of contracts

• Queue to privatise British institutions

  24 Aug 2014: Letters: Oliver Letwin has been an arch-privatiser since the 1970s – and he has a key position in the government

• Stop picking passengers' pockets and bring trains back under public control

  24 Aug 2014: Will Hutton: British rail fares, already the highest in Europe, are set to become higher still. This is a poll tax on wheels

• Sale of the century: the privatisation scam

  22 Aug 2014:

  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

• Income from private patients soars at NHS hospital trusts

  19 Aug 2014: NHS trusts accused of exploiting raised limit on numbers of paying patients amid health service's 'creeping privatisation'

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