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  • 2 May 2013
    Civil service privatisation damages democracy

    Sections of the UK civil service are to be privatised. Unions have raised concerns about the impact on staff pay and conditions. Such a move also raises serious questions about accountability to the public and democracy.

  • 20 Nov 2012
    Buccaneering, deal making and democracy: Cameron at the CBI

    “A buccaneering, deal making, hungry spirit”. These are the qualities which our Prime Minister advocated in his speech to the CBI recently (19 November 2012).

  • 15 Aug 2012
    G4S, policing and freedom

    Private contractor G4S has advertised for staff to take over certain policing functions, sparking controversy.

  • 2 Nov 2007
    Police accountability and transparency is the issue

    The calls for Sir Ian Blair's resignation as chief of the Metropolitan police may be a distraction from the real issues, says Simon Barrow, reflecting on the 2005 Stockwell terror shooting tragedy.

  • 5 Feb 2007
    A culture of impunity

    I have been travelling in the Philippines where news of increased troop levels and warfare in Iraq reaches us. Although it has been many months since I was in Baghdad, where I listened to the stories of detainees, I have a clear image of the increased burden of violence. I imagine with horror the columns of military vehicles weaving their way in narrow streets where homes and storefronts of my friends' neighbourhoods abound.

  • 22 Jun 2005
    The Role of The Press and Media - BBC Radio 4 Moral Maze, 22nd June 2005