#privitisation

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It is necessary to reframe the growing problem of stress (and distress) in capitalist societies. Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, instead, that is, of accepting the vast privatisation of stress that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill?

- Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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When secret coronavirus contracts are awarded without competition, it's deadly serious | George Monbiot

Contracts worth billions have been handed out by a government willing to brazen out disgrace until outrage subsides, says Guardian columnist

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BREAKING: Tories vote down amendment to protect NHS from foreign control in Brexit trade deals | Evolve Politics

The Conservative Party have tonight used their 78-seat majority to vote down an amendment designed to protect the NHS and publicly-funded he

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Daily 'moonshot' tests for Covid-19 will not be given out by NHS - the public will have to pay

Dido Harding said that the tests should be seen as a 'cost of doing business' for people who want to attend conferences or go to the theatre

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UK approves defence company's £4bn US takeover

The founding family of aerospace firm Cobham says the announcement was "cynically timed".