The Guardian reports on “the four contracts that finished Carillion [which] is a disaster not just for employees and taxpayers, but for public-private partnership policy.” The collapse of the outsourcing and construction company has dealt a hammer blow to a privatization crusade that has eroded public services in Britain since the Thatcher years. “Two were for much-needed new hospitals—and work on both was immediately halted as the company collapsed.” The other two: a Scottish road and a development in Doha.