Privatisation

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  How G4S is 'securing your world'

  20 Jun 2012: Budgetary pressure, political will and the lack of a debate over public service privatisation has seen G4S grow exponentially

• G4S chief predicts mass police privatisation

  20 Jun 2012: Private companies will be running large parts of the police service within five years, according to security firm head

• The battle over our communal spaces

  17 Jun 2012: Letters: High-quality, safe and well-maintained public spaces play a major part in the capital's economy, environment and quality of life for both Londoners and visitors

• Is the World Bank under Jim Yong Kim calling time on privatisation?

  14 Jun 2012: Jonathan Glennie: Jim Yong Kim's arrival sets the scene for a shakeup in which World Bank aid favours neither privatisation nor nationalisation

• Scottish people have been losing 'common good' land since 1491

  12 Jun 2012: Historian points out that the privatisation of public spaces in Scotland is nothing new

• Aberdeen's divisive City Garden project hangs in the balance

  12 Jun 2012: Battle over public good and private interest rages as critics claim privately backed scheme blights city's oldest public park

• Privately owned public space in King's Cross

  Graphic, 11 Jun 2012:

  We're in the middle of a creeping privatisation of public space. The graphic below demonstrates the public parks and squares of the King's Cross redevelopment area

• We are returning to an undemocratic model of land ownership

  11 Jun 2012:

  Anna Minton: When councils decide to hand over swaths of land to private ownership, they are reducing democracy to an optional extra

• Public spaces in Britain's cities fall into private hands

  11 Jun 2012:

  Projects such as London's new outdoor space, Granary Square at King's Cross, favour business over community, say critics

  • Help us create a map of privatised public spaces in Britain to see how much land is under corporate control

• Liverpool One no longer feeds into fears around private estates

  11 Jun 2012:

  Martin Wainwright: The largest privately owned area in the UK has played a part in keeping the city alive with its flashmobs and buskers

• Privately owned public space: where are they and who owns them?

  11 Jun 2012:

  Help us to create a map of privatised public spaces in Britain so we can see just how much of land is under corporate control

• Doctors are once again striking for more than themselves

  4 Jun 2012: Ron Singer: Like much of the 1970s NHS militancy, today's industrial action is just. But doctors know there is more at stake than pensions

• Serco faces fresh allegations over Cornwall out-of-hours GP service

  1 Jun 2012:

  Staff and patients raise new examples of lone GPs covering entire county overnight and non-medical staff handling calls

• Tax office workers vote to take industrial action

  1 Jun 2012: Vote by revenue and customs workers adds to the growing number of disputes with the government

• For-profit free schools would increase social and educational segregation

  30 May 2012: Kevin Courtney: As the Swedish experiment has shown, when free schools operate for profit it's always the children who pick up the bill

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