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Kenan Malik

‘Privatisation has made a Dad’s Army of the state’

The market-oriented approach has left services hollowed out while generating huge profits for private companies

Sun 2 Nov 2025

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Will Hutton
The only way out for Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves is to show sheer audacity

Thu 3 Jul 2025

The only way out for Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves is to show sheer audacity
Rachel Sylvester
Starmer to scrap two-child benefit cap

Sat 24 May 2025

Starmer to scrap two-child benefit cap
Rachel Sylvester
Welfare shake-up is not to save cash, it’s a ‘moral mission’, insists Kendall

Mon 19 May 2025

Welfare shake-up is not to save cash, it’s a ‘moral mission’, insists Kendall

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