Like many people, myself included, playwright and monologue artist Mike Daisey was once a great fan of Apple products, until that is due to his own curiosity he decided to visit the Foxconn factory in China, which employs approximately 450,000 workers and manufactures most of Apple's products.  Why does Apple choose to outsource product manufacturing to a Stalinist State, which...

A Conservative-controlled council which looked to be come a "light" organisation and outsource a lot of its duties found it "simply it simply it did not work" according to its leader.

The rush by Eric Pickles, local government secretary, to abolish the Audit Commission risks achieving poor value for money, the body that represents public auditors warns

Unison begins balloting members at the UK's largest council over changes to pay and conditions and a separate plan to outsource IT jobs to India

Plans are to be drawn up to outsource the auditing of local authorities' accounts to the private sector, ministers confirm.

contribution by Guy Shrubsole and Alex Randall The news that global emissions continue to skyrocket is a solemn reminder that climate change, though absent from the headlines of late, remains the world’s most intractable and urgent problem. One might think, given the government’s recent announcement of targets to cut Britain’s emissions in half by 2025,

As made during the year 0 AD: Andrew Lansley: Due to the financial mess inherited from the previous Labour government, we have had to reduce spending on the NHS. However, don't despair, as this has enabled us to outsource many essential tasks to private providers. Gone are the boring standard maternity wards, replaced by stables with mangers in them.

The Question Punk Is Do You Think Your Course Is Worth £9000? ? If you answer no then there isn’t a problem. Do something else. If you answer yes there isn’t one either. Grow up, invest in your future.

The government, despite some of its more absurd recent decisions, is not so stupid. Lansley, Cameron et al know that you don’t privatise the NHS: you liberate here, you outsource there... Until the groundwork is laid to such an extent that one of the biggest milestones of privatisation can be reached, and it is barely reported at all.

A proposal to outsource adult social services in Swansea is criticised as "mass privatisation without consultation".