Letters: Pete Dorey fears the bureaucratic tail now wags the professional dog, Jon Griffith says neoliberalism is the invention of commentators unable or unwilling to face political facts, while Frank Land offers a warning about short-termism
George Monbiot’s analysis of suffocating bureaucracy in the “marketised” public sector was as accurate as it was depressing to read . I work in higher education and my wife works in the NHS, and both of us have been driven to despair by the relentless growth of managerial control since the 1990s.
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