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SERCO’S resumption of shareholder dividends after recording bumper profits is a scandal that tells a story about modern Britain.
The disgraced privateer — for how else can you describe a company fined more than £20 million as recently as 2019 for defrauding the taxpayer? — is on a roll.
Earlier this month it announced the $295m acquisition of a firm providing services to the US military, which chief executive Rupert Soames purred was “the largest defence market in the world.” Wherever vast sums of public money are available to be tapped you will find this company.
Can Andy Burnham’s programme deliver a productive economy – or merely a softer version of capitalism, asks VINCE MILLS
We need a government that invests in saving lives not destroying them, argues SOPHIE BOLT
Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today
