The Writing on the Wall
Call centres, guns, railway workers and some interesting quotes... FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE CALL CENTRES... “We are trying to move 30% of our clinical trials to low-cost countries”, announced GlaxoSmithKline’s chief executive Jean-Pierre Garnier recently. He promised that health and safety would not be compromised. An income stream for the UK’s impoverished students thus dries up. There can’t be many students, apart from the very richest, who haven’t at some time contemplated donating part of their psyche or physique — if only on loan for a day — to medical science, or, rather, to boost the...