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Published in: Home: OpinionUK spy agencies and arms manufacturers are teaching children, but not telling us what
There is a worrying lack of transparency over the involvement of the military-industrial complex in schools.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe statue of Colston must be left in the water
The toppling is a work of art, which celebrates a global movement.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKColston has fallen. Who’s next?
The UK has honoured many slavers, plunderers and perpetrators of massacres. Here’s a list of some more candidates...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWe should treat slavers like we treated Jimmy Savile
We forgot Saville's charitable works when we found out about his child rape. We should do the same with...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Nearly 400,000 British companies evade anti-money laundering checks
David Cameron promised to stop scammers and kleptocrats hiding behind British shell companies. But almost one in ten...
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Published in: Home: OpinionGeorge Floyd protesters expose the lie of liberty
To break the endless cycle of anti-black violence, we must go beyond the ballot box.
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Published in: HomeUnder pressure, UK government releases NHS COVID data deals with big tech
Hours before openDemocracy was due to sue, government releases massive data-sharing contracts with Amazon,...
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Published in: openJustice: Opinion“We’re like sitting ducks”: how the Home Office is placing life and liberty at risk
New research reveals that the Home Office’s approach to immigration detention during the pandemic is unlawful and...
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Published in: ourEconomy"The old ideas are collapsing": an interview with Gar Alperovitz
The veteran political economist talks crisis, community ownership and the next system.
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Published in: Home: InvestigationExclusive: Police Chief urged Priti Patel to use Extinction Rebellion ‘opportunity’ to curb protest rights
Boris Johnson says protest ‘a key part of democracy’. But new documents show Met Police boss urging government to...
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Published in: ourEconomySolidarity means dismantling the system everywhere
The infrastructure of racist policing must be dismantled brick by brick, dollar by dollar, police department by...
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Published in: ourEconomyTermite Capitalism: how private equity is undermining the economy
From care homes to our high streets, private equity is corroding the foundations of society from within. It must be...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationRevealed: Coronavirus self employment grant could cost you months of universal credit
A flaw in the Universal Credit system could "clobber" people receiving the government's coronavirus self-employment...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe Trumpification of the Conservative party
Johnson and Cummings are waging information war on the UK.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNumber 10 must lift briefing ban on openDemocracy, says European press freedom watchdog
Government accused of attempting to “isolate and punish critical coverage” by boycotting media outlets.
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Published in: HomeBoris Johnson may learn that wars don’t always make leaders popular
The British prime minister wants to be a Churchill but is looking more like George W. Bush.
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe Cummings-Johnson saga
Is there an unhealthy emotional dependency inside Downing Street that threatens our democracy?
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Published in: openDemocracyUK“The government gives me £35 a week to buy food… During the lockdown, my kids do not receive free school meals”
As a refugee and single mother, lockdown in the UK is hard. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionDowning Street condemned over ‘vindictive’ treatment of openDemocracy
Number 10’s ban on openDemocracy asking questions at COVID-19 briefings part of a “Trumpian” attack on press...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Investigation‘Not like Dominic Cummings!’ Boris Johnson’s dad and the 300-mile lockdown laptop trip
Stanley Johnson’s computer wasn’t working – so a University of Buckingham technician and his young son drove 150...