Beware the new language of privatisation: state activity farmed out to profit making firms

Click here to access article by Stuart Weir from Open Democracy (UK). 

As the government and business combine to expand the modern-day enclosure of the public sphere and state services by the private sector, the official talk is now of “outsourcing”, and of “partnerships” or “mutuals”, as private incursions into the police provoke political criticism and fears that private companies would be taking over frontline policing duties. Beware the new language of privatisation.