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“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

About Merrick Badger

Merrick Badger is an environmental and social justice campaigner based in England.
He blogs at bristling badger and tweets @merrickbadger.

Articles by Merrick Badger

This week’s front page editor

Rosemary Bechler is a mainsite editor of openDemocracy

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Constitutional conventions: best practice

Spycops activities in Scotland cannot be ignored

Merrick Badger 19 August 2016

Scotland has been excluded from the Pitchford Inquiry into police spying. But spycops behaviour there cannot be brushed aside.

They spy on us because they recognise our power, and fear it

Merrick Badger 2 June 2016

The climate movement has learnt from the Spy Cops scandal; we won't let it stop us.

On the trail of Britain's undercover police

Merrick Badger 13 August 2013

Recent revelations have exposed the routine embedding of undercover police officers within environmental and social justice campaigns. But piecing together the public evidence on undercover police tactics brings as many questions as answers.