Mary Fitzgerald is Editor-in-Chief of openDemocracy. She’s previously worked at Avaaz and as a Senior Editor of Prospect Magazine. She has served as a trustee for the human rights charity Reprieve, and on the editorial code committee of Impress, the UK press regulator. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, New York Review of Books, New Statesman, Project Syndicate and UK Independent, and has been syndicated globally. Recent broadcast appearances include Al Jazeera, the BBC and ZDT. Twitter: @maryftz
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy are Britain’s ‘watchdogs’ protecting politicians, not us?Our leaders stand accused of presiding over corruption, fraud, racism – and suppressing evidence of foreign...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat are Jo Swinson’s Liberal Democrats so desperate to hide?I’ve had some bizarre lawyers’ letters in my time. But this one involved a forgery by the Lib Dem press office. Why?
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Published in: 50.50US isolated at ‘failed’ anti-abortion summit in NairobiConservative protests against global development conference in Kenya fail to draw crowds, or derail commitments.
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Published in: 50.50The American dark money behind Europe’s far rightFrom Britain to Hungary to Italy, the far right is on the rise. openDemocracy investigations over the past year have...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWho's paying to make Boris prime minister?The miserable contest to choose the next UK prime minister – fuelled by dark money, an obsequious press and a...
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Published in: 50.50Europe's far-right bid to take back 'Christian Europe'Focus on Russian 'interference' risks ignoring the growing role of American religious conservatives in fuelling the...