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openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 16 May 2026

By openDemocracy

/ 16 May 2026

Palantir

We’re NHS analysts organising together against Palantir. Here’s why

As NHS data workers, we see Federated Data Platform’s flaws up close. That’s why we’ve launched an open letter to fight it

By NHS Analysts Together

/ 14 May 2026

This moment is bigger than Starmer vs. Streeting vs. Burnham

By Aman Sethi

/ 13 May 2026

This moment is bigger than Starmer vs. Streeting vs. Burnham

OnlyFans meets the climate crisis: can shock tactics cut through?

By Jessica Riches and Nandini Naira Archer

/ 13 May 2026

OnlyFans meets the climate crisis: can shock tactics cut through?

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How has Reform UK gone so mainstream so fast?

Journalist Daniel Trilling on Farage, right-wing populism, and how ‘the establishment’ normalised Reform

By Aman Sethi

/ 15 May 2026

Labour Party

Beyond Westminster’s chaos, a new grassroots left is taking shape

As Keir Starmer fights for survival, Jeremy Corbyn’s decade-long grassroots strategy may yet have the last word

By Paul Rogers

/ 15 May 2026

In 1949, Britain killed 21 miners in Nigeria. Their families are still seeking justice

Keir Starmer’s UK government missed a court-ordered deadline to compensate the families of the killed coal miners.

By Saint Ekpali

/ 15 May 2026

In Sudan war, the best emergency response is driven by local community

Reflecting on three years of emergency response in Sudan – and the power of faith-based mobilisation

By Harun Hassan

/ 15 May 2026

Guarantee our right to support, modern slavery victims urge MPs

With Starmer under fire, survivors say Labour must deliver long-overdue access to support on mental health and housing

By Sian Norris

/ 13 May 2026

Guarantee our right to support, modern slavery victims urge MPs

This election signals a crisis for the British state

As the Greens, Reform and nationalists in Scotland and Wales make gains, Westminster’s two-party system is finished

By Adam Ramsay

/ 8 May 2026

This election signals a crisis for the British state

UK’s sky-high rents are endangering children. Why won’t government act?

Scribbling ‘unaffordable housing costs’ in a patient’s medical notes is now as customary as ordering blood tests

By Amaran Uthayakumar-Cumarasamy

/ 1 May 2026

UK’s sky-high rents are endangering children. Why won’t government act?

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Podcasts

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Nigel Farage

How the UK Establishment Normalised Reform

Is Reform fascist, far-right or merely right wing? And do we really need to get into this?

Interview

The Climate Wars: How Superpowers Are Carving Up the Earth | With Arthur Snell

What do melting Arctic ice, a war for farmland in Ukraine, and the panic of Gulf petro-states have in common? Arthur Snell exposes the terrifying new geography of global conflict and how humanity can adapt to survive it.

Interview

The AI Panopticon: How Big Tech and the State are Watching You | With Jim Killock

Interview

The "Danish Model" of Asylum Explained: Cruelty by Design? | With Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen

Why are British and European politicians obsessed with Denmark's immigration strategy? We uncover the dark reality of the "Danish Model" and how it punishes asylum seekers by design.

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Aman Sethi

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Interview

Oil, Inflation, Unrest: The Global Fallout of the US-Israeli War on Iran

Interview

What is the Danish immigration model, and does it work?

Angelina de los Santos

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Investigation

A sexual predator used online games and ChatGPT to groom young boys

Analysis

What Latin America’s press misses about Venezuela

Diana Cariboni

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Investigation

Fake authors, fake stories: Inside the Russian campaign to influence Argentina's election

Investigation

As Bolivia’s left fractured, the Kremlin sent ex-Wagner agents

Ethan Shone

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Lobbying

Labour-linked consultancy saw record UK growth after boss left to work in No 10

News

‘Labour-specialist’ lobbying firm with close ties to No10 revs up business

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