As in the NHS, the government’s structural changes to schools are just the start of a massive privatisation process.
Tim Kelsey’s legacy to the NHS isn’t just the botched care.data project. He’s also been pushing a vision of digital salvation, that his new firm is already starting to benefit from.
Whilst all eyes have been on the election, the government has quietly shifted into stage two of NHS privatisation, generating huge potential conflicts of interest.
This isn't a National Health Service - or even a healthcare market. It's a cabal - and it looks something like this.
Meet the shadowy team at the heart of many of the most controversial NHS privatisations to date, including the Staffordshire deal leaked last week to openDemocracy.
Is Hunt trying to distance himself from the amount the NHS is spending on lawyers, consultants and private healthcare companies, under his watch?
NHS England won't publish data on where it spends its money, including to private companies. What happened to the promised transparency?
The private health insurance industry has been trying to get think tanks to help it make money in Britain for the last 10 years. Is today's report by Reform calling for NHS charges the result?
The Lobbying Bill being debated this week will do nothing to expose corporate lobbying. If we are going to diminish their influence in government, we need to understand their tactics better and call them out.
Finance and the British state are mutually embedded to the point that it can be hard to tell where one stops and the other starts. Here, Tamasin Cave of Spinwatch gives us a brief tour of the tangled web that is public life in the UK.
Since the crash of 2008, British taxpayers have shelled out an incredible £1.2 trillion on bailing out and propping up the banks. Nearly five years on, the UK’s banking scandals seem never-ending. This Spinwatch film investigates the continuing culture of lobbying in the City.
Another month, another lobbying scandal in the UK. The last led to the resignation of the defence secretary. This one leads to the British prime minister himself.
