The UK’s most active period of privatisation saw health and safety disasters and fatalities increase dramatically. In recently published research, we identified 27 multifatality disasters between 1979 ...

Privatisation of the NHS has come in many guises over the last decade. This has had its costs – not least fragmentation, waste, loss of patients’ trust, inequities in access, the creation of a ...

Just who exactly supports the UK’s privatised railway industry? It’s certainly not passengers, taxpayers, railway employees or increasingly many politicians. The state-owned British Rail was ...

The British government has been imposing privatisation on developing countries, often with disastrous results, as a condition for granting aid, according to a report to be published this week. The ...