UK background politics thread

privatization in action

The privatisation of children’s services is gathering pace, and it is attracting the worst kind of investor (thread) 1/

— Martin Barrow (@MartinBarrow) February 18, 2020

impressively ugly site: https://www.wealthclub.co.uk/eis-investments/dimensions-care-eis/

https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/news/pretty-vacant-new-report-on-londons-housing-april-2020

some good proposals for beginning to get a handle on housing

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/04/dalian-atkinson-murdered-in-street-by-police-officer-jury-hears

Possibly might result in the first conviction of a police office related to a death in custody since 1971. Most cases don’t get this far.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/april/1782-deaths-but-no-convictions

If the jury doesn’t convict, it’ll increase the perception that they never will where serving police are concerned.