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Published in:Home: FeatureHow to get away with breaking the rules like Boris JohnsonA handy guide to wriggling out of accountability like the prime minister fending off a report by Sue Gray
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionThe Bank of England’s cost of living strategy: cut wages, protect profitsFaced with the first serious bout of inflation in decades, the Bank of England is proving to be almost entirely rudderless
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Published in:Home: Analysis5 ways MPs’ new rulebook could let dodgy politicians off the hookThe Standards Committee says its proposals are ‘robust’. Here are some reasons that they aren't
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Published in:50.50: OpinionThe Christian Right won’t let us solve our mass shooting epidemicThe Republican party has a white Christian nationalist vision for the US, and is stopping solutions to gun violence
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionRo Khanna: ‘Freedom’ has been hijacked by the Right. Let’s take it backThe Silicon Valley Congressman says the US Left should tap into the legacy of FDR’s Economic Bill of Rights
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Published in:Home: OpinionA hunger crisis threatens millions. Will world leaders take action?One person is dying from hunger every 48 seconds in East Africa. A global galvanising effort is urgently needed
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Published in: oDRIs Russia forcing people to fight in Ukraine?
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe UK’s development strategy fails to confront the world’s biggest crisesThe strategy prioritises geopolitical and economic self-interests, at the expense of the most-impacted communities
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Published in: Home: OpinionFar-right conspiracy theories are now embedded in the UK mainstreamAnd no wonder, when British journalists promote conspiracy theories and government politicians embrace extremist rhetoric
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: FeatureOligarchs’ yacht club: UK firm’s ties to Russian cashBarcelona’s superyacht marina was tied to Russian money – but the oligarchs involved were kept secret
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Published in: 50.50: NewsHomophobic petition defending PSG footballer is pulled – after 50,000 signThe petition for Idrissa Gueye, who opted out of an anti-homophobia match in France, is deemed ‘hate speech’
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Published in: Home: Feature‘Barbaric system’: Australia’s offshore victims warn UK against Rwanda planThe UK’s £120m offshore ‘processing’ deal borrows from the same semi-colonial playbook used by Australia
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Published in: Home: AnalysisAustralia’s deadlock on climate change action is over – for nowLabor’s win – and the election of more Green and Independent MPs – shows climate crisis is voters’ biggest concern
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Published in: Home: News87,000 people can’t keep up with care bills as cost of living soarsExclusive: 1 in 4 ‘chargeable’ care users sent reminders or warnings, and hundreds referred to debt collectors
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Published in: Home: NewsWatchdog urged to strip anti-net-zero group of charitable statusMPs, peers, climate scientists and leading authors back letter sounding alarm over Global Warming Policy Foundation
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Published in: Home: ReviewSonia Boyce feeling her way to freedom as the UK’s artist in VeniceThe first Black woman to represent the UK at the world’s leading art festival calls us to imagine what freedom looks like
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureHow a new seed gives Guatemalans a way out of hunger and bad healthPoor farmers in Guatemala eat little but maize. A first step out of malnutrition is a new seed bred to yield the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe human cost of border deterrenceThe price of preventing people from crossing borders is measured in lives lost
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureUS abortion ban will be ‘devastating’ for Hispanic and Black communitiesMarginalised communities in Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico already struggle to access abortion, say campaigners
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Published in: Home: FeatureThe ‘hostile environment’ is 10. It blighted these women’s livesA decade after Theresa May declared a ‘hostile environment’, many immigrants to the UK are stuck in legal limbo
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionIs Johnson's Rwanda plan a crime against humanity?Possibly, yes.
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisGoodbye Russian gas, hello rapid decarbonisationWe must cut Russian fossil fuel imports and change our energy use, to combat both the cost of living crisis and the...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionTurkey funds women’s groups to counter ‘feminist threat’Government-operated women’s organisations are drowning out genuine feminist voices in Turkey, my research reveals
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Published in: Home: OpinionIs Westminster a safe place for women to work? Not in my experienceFor young female staffers, it’s common to be cornered by a drunken MP, or subjected to a pat on the bum or an...
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Published in: Home: OpinionThank you, Derry Girls, for telling the story of my complicated adolescenceLike the Derry Girls, I was 18 when I voted for the Good Friday Agreement. The show perfectly captured the darkness,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA message to the ILO from the world's working childrenThe ILO wants to eliminate these children's livelihoods without their consent. They have something to say about that
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Taxpayers fork out £8m to subsidise Lords’ food and drinkExclusive: Bailout comes on top of £17m spent on bars and restaurants in the House of Commons, with cut-price food...
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