In this podcast, I consider the proposition that the UK economy conforms to Mussolini's characterisation of fascism as the complete entanglement of corporate and state power. I do this through a close comparison of the corporate document produced by the Serco Institute, Lessons learned from the collapse of Carillion (2018) and the UK Government document The Outsourcing Playbook (2020). The resonance between the two documents is sufficient to intensify the suspicion that corporations and government are bed-fellows and dangerously so. A side-effect of this investigation is to reveal the purely ideological character of the Tory government's espousal of neoliberalism. [Free. 57 minutes.]
WHAT IS FASCISM? 4 - SATURN EATS HIS SON & THE DEATH INSTINCT
CAMPUS BUMS OR HOPE FOR THE FUTURE? ON STUDENT PROTESTS - INTERESTING TIMES 79
DODGY DAVE? - INTERESTING TIMES 78
RETALIATION - INTERESTING TIMES 77
THE DIN OF RATTLING SABRES - INTERESTING TIMES 76
MUSIC - UP THROUGH THE WOODS
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - INTERESTING TIMES 75
RULES BASED ORDER? - INTERESTING TIMES 74
CHUANG TZU 3 - CRACKING THE SAFE
LOOKING BACK OVER 2023 & FORWARD TO 2024 - INTERESTING TIMES 73
TURKEY, DEVOLUTION, GAZA - INTERESTING TIMES 72
CHUANG TZU 2 - CUTTING UP AN OX
WHAT DOES THE BBC WANT YOU TO THINK TODAY? RAW THOUGHT
CHUANG TZU 1 - ACTION AND NON-ACTION
MUSIC - GRACE OF RAIN
A MAD MONDAY IN UK POLITICS & BEYOND - INTERESTING TIMES 71
A PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR OUR FUTURE? - INTERESTING TIMES 70
BALLOTS, BOMBS, BLOWBACK - INTERESTING TIMES 69
CHUANG TZU - AN INTRODUCTION
TORY CONFERENCE 23 - INCOMPETENCE, FRAGMENTATION AND MADNESS - INTERESTING TIMES 69
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