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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Post-pandemic university, or post-university?
We need to defend the cooperation that comes only with face-to-face dialogue, or risk the further undermining of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?National stereotypes in times of COVID-19: the ‘frugal four’ and the ‘irresponsible South’
When EU leaders discuss the coronavirus Recovery Fund at the upcoming meeting of the European Council on Friday,...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Key Cummings and Gove ally given COVID-19 contract without open tender
Cabinet Office accused of breaching rules after handing £840,000 contract to PR firm run by co-author of the 2019...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionThese 13 bodies said they would counter the pandemic in Latin America - have they?
Thirteen Inter-American and international institutions, coordinated by the OAS, agreed on a series of actions to...
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Published in: 50.50The Chinese government must let us cry for our dead
My social media posts have been censored many times, especially when I said that “we don’t have the right to cry...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWomen activists in the Middle East face online bullying and sexual harassment
A growing wave of online bullying and sexual harassment is forcing many women and feminist activists to abandon the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionYou can't understand the world without learning about empire
As academics, we teach about empire, slavery and colonialism because without them, the world makes no sense.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Yemen’s war and the blackout in the Spanish press
“Public opinion in western countries has been quite incapable of applying the necessary pressure to cut our ties...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationFresh concerns over privacy and profit in NHS COVID data deals
Documents released to openDemocracy suggest tech firms will profit from controversial deals – and that government...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionFarewell George Osborne – no loss to journalism at all
His legacy as editor of London’s Evening Standard? Nothing but the ‘For Sale’ sign he put across his newspaper
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionItalia, è ora di affrontare il tuo razzismo dilagante
Mentre gli italiani sostengono Black Lives Matter negli Stati Uniti, dobbiamo guardare più vicino a casa – alla...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionItaly, it’s time to confront your own rampant racism
While Italians support Black Lives Matter in the US, we must look closer to home – at our own language, colonial...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Montanelli: his statue and legacy is up for debate
The debate around the statue of a great Italian journalist – who as a fascist kept an African 12-year-old sex slave...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionHow to dismantle a democracy: the case of Bulgaria
Not only fascistic xenophobes are capable of killing democracy. Semi-literate macho males bereft of any...
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Published in: openMovementsCreating a hyperlocal infrastructure of care: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups
COVID-19 mutual aid groups revolve around caring for neighbours as a hyperlocal infrastructure. This can have a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationRevealed: Trump backer’s spy firm used by Met Police and Cabinet Office
Palantir's software was trialled by the Met Police and the Cabinet Office. The CIA-backed tech firm lobbied Gove,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Four invisible enemies in the first pandemic of a “datafied society”
COVID-19 lays bare the nuances of a society undergoing digital data transformation in nearly every field of human...
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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: Can Europe Make It?Dismantling democracy – the right to be entertained
It is not enough any more to call populists names. Calling them fascists has ceased to make any impression on many...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightThe radical right is exploiting a Swedish teen’s murder
The tale concocted about Tommie Lindh’s death has become an excuse to target minorities, particularly Muslims, with violence.