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Published in: ourEconomyOur hour with Michael Brooks
This week the US and international left lost a vital voice.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationMexico's Tragic Chain: 133 journalists' lives lost
The following article features 10 obituaries of journalists killed in Mexico in 2019. They are some of the 133...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationWhere are the black, female and working class people at the government press conferences?
Those most affected by the COVID-19 crisis have been woefully under-represented at the daily briefings, and it's...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationJournalism in Mexico: Report for a living, get killed for reporting
Since 2000, 133 journalists have been murdered in Mexico. 10 of them in 2019. Meanwhile, impunity wins in 99% of cases.
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Published in: ourBeeb: OpinionThe BBC’s diversity plan is a stumble, not a ‘big leap forward’
Similar strategies in the film industry have failed. A more radical shake-up is needed instead.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘Must say’ and ‘must not say’ words for the French President
A short guide on how to translate what is said to discover how power is imposing control in France.
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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...