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How Britain Lost Control: A special report by Anoosh Chakelian, the New Statesman’s Britain editor, on how, over decades, the state outsourced its politics, governance, welfare provision, and social infrastructure to Serco and companies like it – and the slow erosion of both society and democracy that has been the result. Plus: