Corbyn’s intervention exposes a corrupted system, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Latest editorial
Tory profiteering from human misery
SOLOMON HUGHES looks in detail at the government’s pet privatisation contractor, the Mitie Group
GRIM AND UNFIT: Migrants arrive at Home Office run Tug Haven migrant processing facility in Dover, Kent
In the second of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
Paul Holden’s The Fraud reveals how a network of donors, MPs and opaque organisations quietly organised to destroy Corbyn’s leadership and manufacture a new centre of power inside Labour, writes JOHN ELLISON
Systems of power enable, excuse and normalise abuse, while survivors are ignored and women’s exploitation is repackaged as commerce and choice, warns CHARLIE WEINBERG
By casting himself as Supreme Pontiff, Donald Trump summoned the ghosts of the church’s most depraved eras, says STEPHEN ARNELL
As assaults on transport staff rise and the Scottish Parliament heads for dissolution, promised legislation to protect rail workers has yet to materialise, says ANN HENDERSON
THE government is showing increasing enthusiasm for one of its main privatisation contractors, the Mitie Group.
It probably helps that it has a Tory Lord, Baroness Couttie, as a director. Baroness Couttie, also known as Philippa Roe, is currently a Tory whip in the Lords and was a long-running Tory leader of Westminster Council.
Mitie’s government business is growing and the company has won many contracts running Covid-19 testing services. It is also picking up criticism from inspectors.
Similar stories
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
