privatisation Articles

‘Marketisation’ has become the main slogan driving public policy towards many public services from hospitals to prisons, from nursery schools to care homes for the elderly. The public is invited to welcome the introduction of markets as the advent of freedom of...

Should there be a Progress column on public service reform? Not according to Polly Toynbee, who argues today that the coalition have abandoned the centre-ground and opened the NHS up to privatisation. In her view, Labour in government will have to repair the damage,...

The Adam Smith Institute arrived unannounced in the late 1970s, heralding the collapse of the postwar Keynesian consensus and the birth of a new order with sharp, boldly designed and pithily titled pamphlets. Its name became synonymous with the radical leading edge of...

One form of unintended consequences is: ‘A perverse effect contrary to what was originally intended’ and this is precisely the issue Labour will face when back in government. Labour introduced academies in order to bring much needed funding into our crumbling state...