Some call it outsourcing. I call it spivvery | Aditya Chakrabortty

All over the country, rows over the likes of Capita threaten to be the Tories achilles heel at the local electionsThe crisis at Capita will today be treated like a business story – albeit a huge one, with a big company shooting up distress flares and launching an urgent £700m whip-round. But this story is far larger than that. It holds up a mirror to how the British state is now locked in a sick codependency with outsourcing companies whose very business model drives them both into f