Neoliberalism and crushing bureaucracy in the public sector

‘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,’ says Pete Dorey. Photograph: Getty/iStockphotoGeorge Monbiot’s analysis of suffocating bureaucracy in the “marketised” public sector was as accurate as it was depressing to read (We were promised freedom. Privatisation doesn’t deliver it, 10 April). I work in higher education and my wife works in the NHS, and bo