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Published in: openJustice: OpinionDisposable lives: how the plight of immigration detainees is highlighted during COVID-19
The UK government’s continued use of immigration detention lacks moral and legal justification. But it comes as no surprise.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion‘Protect the NHS’ must not be another excuse to blame patients
Scaring people away from using Britain’s National Health Service is a dangerous and toxic message - and now it’s...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFrom corporate carewashing to genuine care?
The coronavirus crisis forces us to reconsider the business of business.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionQueen beckons Britain into Covid-nationalism trap
Elizabeth Windsor's speech about COVID-19 tried to spin our profound feelings about the pandemic into nationalist sentiment
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUK coronavirus guidance could cause spike in child deaths, doctors warn
Experts demand change in public messaging, warning that confused parents are too scared to take sick kids to hospital or GPs.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionTo grab this moment, the next Labour leader will need humility
Coronavirus changes everything.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionLabour’s new leader must be a capacity builder
Britain’s Labour party has five potential futures...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI’ll tell you what’s ramping up – my anger at the UK government’s disingenuous script
Ministers talk as if the COVID-19 outbreak is all going to plan. I love escapist fantasy too, but the facts suggest...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionLabour must not abandon media reform
In an open letter to Labour leadership candidates, prominent figures in the party call for continued support for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionStop blaming ordinary people for the UK’s pandemic failures
Boris Johnson has presided over a public policy disaster. Now, he wants you to blame your neighbours. Don't.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?#Clapforcarers: why grassroots solidarity against Coronavirus matters
As people see that we all depend for our safety on the state and its health system, they realise that contra...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWe must undo a decade of disastrous NHS reforms
Covid-19 shows how our health service has been undermined
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Published in: ourBeeb: OpinionCoronavirus has strengthened the case for the BBC
The right has been desperate to sell of the BBC for years. But Covid-19 shows why we need public service broadcasting.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionLondoners in lockdown are missing this magnificent monument
The Tate Modern turbine hall is exhibiting a fountain of reconcilliation for imperial crimes
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe British government has abandoned the Global South to coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic could be a ticking time bomb for the world’s most vulnerable people. Yet just when global...
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Published in: ourEconomyTo win power, Labour needs to heal England’s geographic divide
Stemming the divergence of interests between cities and the rest of the country is vital for any progressive agenda.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWe must catch everyone in the coronavirus safety net
I am lucky, but millions are not. The government must guarantee a liveable income for everyone – now. It will save lives.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The UK Parliament’s legal role
Contesting Whitehall and Westminster visions of UK democracy clashed throughout the Brexit process, with the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Taking deliberation seriously: ‘considered judgment’ from the Brexit referendum to the pandemic
On the 2019 UK elections, popular sovereignty, and citizens’ assemblies. A conversation with Stuart White.
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Published in: openJustice: OpinionDemocracy to autocracy? COVID-19 is exposing a crisis in the UK constitution
The response to COVID-19 is showing how the UK’s unwritten constitution puts democracy at risk. Even in times of...