Selected interviews
Broadcast, radio and podcast
Al Jazeera English (live), interview on ‘The Effects of Austerity in the UK’. 5 October 2022. (See above).
BBC Radio 4, interviewed throughout all episodes of the 5-part series ‘Magic Consultants’. Available here. March-April 2023.
Tech Won’t Save Us (podcast), ‘The Consequences of Leaving Tech to the Private Sector w/ Rosie Collington’. Available here. 23 February 2023.
NPR’s The Takeaway with Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry, on ‘The Big Con’. Available here. 8 March 2023.
Keen On (podcast), ‘Rosie Collington on How the Consulting Industry Weakens Businesses, Infantilizes Governments, and Warps Our Economies’. Available here. 6 March 2023.
New Economics Podcast, ‘Have we been conned by consultants?’. Available here. 24 April 2023.
Macrodose (podcast), ‘Consulting, Privatisation and the Economics of the State w/ Rosie Collington’. Available here. 31 March 2023.
The Mint (podcast), ‘Fools and their money’. Available here. 30 March 2023.
UKICE (podcast), ‘“The Big Con” and the value of consultancies with Rosie Collington’. Available here. 28 April 2023.
Langsomme samtaler (podcast), ‘Rosie Collington: Det store fupnummer – hvad vores brug af konsulenter lærer os om kapitalismen og den moderne stat’. Available here. 31 May 2023. [Danish]
NPR – The Takeaway with Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry on ‘The Future of the UK’s Economy’. Available here. 21 October 2022.
Times Radio – Breakfast with Anna Cunningham, interview on ‘Austerity in the UK’. 20 October 2022.
ABC – Sunday Extra with Julian Morrow, ‘Accounting for “The Big Con”’. Available here. 20 May 2023.
The Majority Report with Sam Seder (live), “How Consultancy Undermines Government and Its Functions w/ Rosie Collington”. Available here. 22 May 2023.
Australian Financial Review, ‘Academic cited by Chalmers wants consultants to disclose client lists’. Available here. 7 March 2023.
De Groene Amsterdammer, ‘Een placebo als alibi’. [Dutch]. Available here. 17 May 2023.
City AM, ‘Calling the consultants’ bluff: The Big Con author on reining in the power of consulting firms’. Available here. 20 February 2023.
Zetland, ‘Konsulenterne har overtaget verden. Det er tid til at tage magten tilbage, siger forsker i ny bog’. [Danish]. Available here. 20 March 2023.
Information, ‘Forsker: Konsulentbranchen undergraver den grønne omstilling’. Available here. 12 April 2023.
Morgen Bladet, ‘Hvorfor er det så inni hampen vanskelig å kutte i grønn konsulentbruk?’. [Norwegian]. Available here. 26 May 2023.
Trouw, ‘Wat doen McKinsey en KPMG eigenlijk? “Al die externe adviseurs zorgen ervoor dat de overheid infantiliseert”’. [Dutch]. Available here. 1 July 2023.
De Volkskrant, ‘Een bikkelhard boek over de rol van consultancy in de publieke sector: “De overheid infantiliseert”’. [Dutch]. Available here. 9 June 2023.
Selected articles
Mazzucato, M. and Collington, R. 2023. ‘UK ministers promised to kick the consultant habit but they can’t: they’re addicted – and we pay the price’. The Guardian. Available here.
Mazzucato, M. and Collington, R. 2023. ‘Consultants and the Crisis of Capitalism’. Project Syndicate. Available here.
Collington, R. 2022. ‘Liz Truss wants to inflict more austerity on Britain – but there’s nothing left to cut’. The Guardian. Available here.
Collington, R. 2022. ‘How co-operative housing gave me the peace of mind I thought I’d never find’. The Guardian. Available here.
Collington, R. Mazzucato, M. 2021. ‘Britain’s public sector is paying the price for the government’s consultancy habit’. The Guardian. Available here.
Collington, R. Stahl, M. 2021. ‘Vi er i gang med at sælge ud af vores digitale fremtid’. Politiken. Available here. [Danish]
Collington, R. 2020. ‘The myth of the “efficient” private sector has been busted by Covid’. The Guardian. Available here.
Collington, R. 2020. ‘Who Benefits When the Price of Insulin Soars?’. Institute for New Economic Thinking. Available here.
Collington, R. 2019. ‘Denmark is helping those who can’t work due to coronavirus – why isn’t the UK?’ The Guardian. Available here.
Collington, R. 2019. ‘Digital public assets should be democratised, not given away for private profit’. openDemocracy. Available here.
Akehurst, N. Collington, R. 2019. ‘Against Polling’. Jacobin. Available here.
Collington, R. 2019. ‘NHS data is a public asset. Why does Matt Hancock want to give it away?’ openDemocracy. Available here.
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