What do you have to do to fall out of favour with this government? Last month, the security company G4S was quietly rehabilitated(1). It had been banned in August 2013 from bidding for government contracts(2), after charging the state for tagging 3,000 phantom criminals(3). Those who had died before it started monitoring them presented a particularly low escape risk. G4S was obliged to pay £109m back to the government.