Soundings

Issue 40 Winter 2008

End of an era

Against all the evidence, the government remains committed to the market agenda in the public sphere, where it continues to invoke the language of consumer choice and user involvement as a cover for privatisation. In this issue Peter Beresford discusses personalisation in social care; Sally Baker and colleagues report from the front line in mental health; and Stewart Player documents the government's championing of 'choice' in the health service. Market failure on the global scene is addressed by Colin Hines and Ann Pettifor.

Michael Bradshaw discusses the Sakhalin 2 story, which shows what can happen when the future of a major energy project is decided by private companies; Jon Bloomfield argues that the European Union is a key arena in which the kind of political action that is currently needed can be articulated and supported; and Richard Archer and Jo-anne Schofield report on the state of play in Australia.

Also in the issue: Robert Reiner on law and order; Bridget Anderson and Rutvica Andrijasevic on trafficking and migration; and Sarah Franklin on cultural attitudes to IVF. Plus reviews and poetry.

Contents

Whose personalisation?
Peter Beresford

The rise of the service user
Sally Baker, Brian J. Brown and Hefin Gwilym

Darzi & Co: corporate capture in the NHS
Stewart Player

The low carbon light at the end of the tunnel
Colin Hines

Taming the finance markets
Ann Pettifor

The Sakhalin saga
Michael Bradshaw

Revitalising Europe
Jon Bloomfield

Left politics down under
Richard Archer and Jo-anne Schofield

Reviews

Molly Scott Cato, Michael Prior

Four Poems in translation
Mahmoud Darwish, Rocco Scotellaro, Ovid, anon

From economic revolution to social revolution
Oliver Letwin talks to Alan Finlayson

The law and order trap
Robert Reiner

Sex, slaves and citizens: the politics of anti-trafficking
Bridget Anderson and Rutvica Andrijasevic

Reimagining the facts of life
Sarah Franklin

ISBN 9781905007905 paperback December 2008

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