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Alan White

Alan White's work has appeared in the Observer, Times, Private Eye, The National & TLS. As John Heale, he is the author of One Blood: Inside Britain's Gang Culture.

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The Remploy factories have closed, but the pain continues
16 May 2013

The media moved on, but the people who used to be employed by the charity Remploy are still suffering, writes Alan White.

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The fags and booze crackdown that wasn't: or why we need a register of lobbyists
09 May 2013

Why can’t we see how much is being spent by private healthcare companies to push for NHS reform, why can’t we see which companies thought the Work Programme was a good idea?

UK Politics
Lies, Damn Lies, and Department for Work and Pensions Statistics
30 April 2013

So much of what Iain Duncan Smith and his department is doing is based on empirical sand.

UK Politics
Four reasons why policy-making shouldn't be outsourced to right-wing think tanks
25 April 2013

Take a look at the institutions to which, if Francis Maude gets his way, the Government will be outsourcing policy. Does it seem sensible to you?

Media
The racists have lost: Britain has risen above patronising portrayals of identity
19 April 2013

Race, crime and the media: an essay.

Health
"The tail’s wagging the dog": How outsourcing is eroding NHS services
15 April 2013

The battle over outsourcing for Suffolk’s community health services in Sudbury is a warning for the rest of the country - the future of the NHS is going to be fragmented.

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Was this tragedy really a "vile product" of Welfare UK?
03 April 2013

The Daily Mail's incendiary oversimplification of a complex tragedy is offensive to many. But as ever it's all too easy for the victims to be forgotten once the internecine media squabbles reach fever pitch.

UK Politics
The UK Border Agency: after four years, a car crash in slow motion finally comes to a stop
27 March 2013

The agency that's caused so much misery and cruelty is to be restructured, but without proper resources its successor won't be able to avoid the same mistakes.

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A free press is essential to expose the revolving door between public and private surveillance
22 March 2013

The line between those paid by the state to protect us, and those paid by corporations to protect themselves is increasingly blurred. We need proper public interest journalism to make sure stories like this can be told.

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Dora's story: more evidence that the poor don't make mistakes, they commit crimes
14 March 2013

As the case of "Dora", a young woman who either committed a minor crime or made a mistake, shows - people from deprived backgrounds have an entirely different experience of custody than people like Chris Huhne or Vicky Pryce.

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