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Lucy Reynolds is a research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Articles by Lucy Reynolds

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Adam Ramsay is Co-Editor at openDemocracyUK.

Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

Authoritarian governments hate Wikipedia, which is why you should get involved
John Lubbock
E-residency: the citizenship of the future?
Jaak Erik Laja
The backfire effect, bad objects, and changing our minds online
David Beer
"Surveillance is the business model of the internet"
Agne Pix and Bruce Schneier
Pushing together solutions to polarization and manipulation in social media
Ricardo Poppi
Internet equality is about to get Trumped – let’s build a wall to defend it
Matthew Linares

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Selling our safety to the highest bidder: the privatisation of Plasma Resources UK

Lucy Reynolds 24 April 2013

Lucy Reynolds publishes this original paper on the government's proposed sale of the UK's state-owned blood plasma supplier. In their drive to dismantle the last vestiges of the state, the government appear to be exposing the British public to serious - and sometimes fatal - risks, including HIV and hepatitis.

Our NHS is being dismantled for transnational corporations

Lucy Reynolds 4 April 2013

As a key part of the EU-US trade deal currently being fleshed out, the Conservatives are making good on a decades old fantasy of theirs - breaking up the NHS and opening it to global business. This is the reality and it's happening now.

Quick guide to section 75

Lucy Reynolds 19 February 2013

For a brief overview of the regulations and context, we publish here a short note from Lucy Reynolds. We published the full story on section 75 here.

The NHS as we know it needs a prayer

Nicola Cutcher and Lucy Reynolds 19 February 2013

Regulations laid last week will turn England's National Health Service into a competitive market. They appear to contradict assurances from the Coalition government on one of the most central elements of the Bill.