May 2013
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March 2013
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G4S Strikes Again
I posted this a while back discussing the hypothetical problems of selling police services off to G4S (and other private companies) According to the Independent they’ve just managed to kill someone while working in a ‘care’ capacity.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/amputee-dies-in-g4s-ambulance-due-to-insufficient-staff-training-8527221.html
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February 2013
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Police Inc. - The dangers of allowing private...
In early March this year a story was ran in a major UK newspaper about the death of a man being transported in an ambulance by private security company G4S. It had been proposed by the UK government that private security companies could win contracts that would see them take over functions, at present carried out by the police force. One of the proposed suggestions was to allow private companies...
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The Potential Abolition of Housing Benefit for the...
(This was written when the policy was first suggested)
What follows are some thoughts on Mr Cameron’s announcement yesterday of this policy. I’m sure that most what I am about to say will have already been written and blogged about extensively.
Yesterday Cameron spoke of cutting the excessively high Housing Benefit bill as part of his general assault on the Welfare system. Seemingly he...
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The Nation as Corporation
Government has a long running tradition of partnership with corporations, dating back to the historic birth of the corporation by way of government charter. This partnership has in the modern age developed to the point that elements of corporate strategy have been adopted by governments, most disturbingly, the concept of cost benefit analysis.
This is the strategy most infamously used by...
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