Remembering David Graeber - 'rest in power, peace and possibility'
The anthropologist, anarchist and activist, author of "Debt: The First 5000 Years" and "Bullshit Jobs", has died at the age of 59. His openness, originality and optimism will be hugely missed.
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Published in: Home: OpinionWe lost because we weren’t big enoughWhere now for Anglo-American socialism?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Britain’s COVID-19 housing crisisHousing has to be enshrined as a human right, rather than treated as a commodity or an investment.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIs Scotland's nature agency trying to re-extinct the beaver?Scotland’s beavers are a protected, native species. There are only about 450 of them. So why has the agency charged...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationSolutions to the childcare crisis must protect parents, children – and childcare workersThe UK's childcare sector was struggling pre-pandemic. Now it’s in crisis – and the government must ensure those...
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Published in: openJustice: OpinionGovernment rhetoric on migrants is a smoke screen for a deeper agendaFor now, the rule of law is providing hope to people claiming asylum in the UK. But the government has other ideas.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKQuiz: Who are the winners in the coronavirus goldrush?Global recession may be causing hardship for millions, but some well-connected firms are still winning in the...
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Published in: openJustice: OpinionI gave birth during coronavirus as an asylum seeker
The doctors were good to me but my circumstances caused problems during the birth and beyond. I came to the UK for...
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Published in: openJustice: OpinionThe coronavirus crisis: revealing an ugly truth about the UK and human rightsThe UK is not protecting the rights of its marginalised people – and matters are worse in the wake of coronavirus....
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationConfusion and blame as COVID-struck sandwich factory calls workers back inUnion says situation is “crazy" as workers report "just four or five days into their self-isolation period... they...
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Published in: Home: InvestigationDeloitte gets another huge COVID contract – for ‘crazy’ plan to test millions each dayOperation Moonshot could be the biggest NHS privatisation in history, and civil servants are shaking their heads in...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion‘Trapped in a code’ – the fight over our algorithmic futureWe grudgingly tolerate algorithms that predict our cultural consumption – but applying them to exam results has...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionCoronavirus could dethrone the neoliberalism that’s made the UK a basket caseWhy has the Conservative government failed so badly with COVID-19? One reason is a neoliberal ideology that can’t...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe problem isn’t the algorithm. It’s the class systemA string of equations didn’t create our unfair education system, it revealed it.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?As courts re-open, Britain’s renters must confront the power of landlords“Alas, many middle class people are now invested in this relationship of domination.”
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionProgressives must rally together to demand democracyBritish politics is utterly broken. Our parties must find a way to find a way to renew it.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIn Scotland, Loyalists lead a Black Lives Matter backlashRacist ideas have connected Scottish sectarians with the global far right
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationGovernment accused of new ‘U-turn’ on local COVID contact tracingExclusive: None of Serco or Sitel's contact tracing staff will be deployed locally, government admits – as councils...
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Published in: ourNHS: InvestigationSerco and Sitel to get more public money despite track-and-trace fiascoA third of the workforce are to lose their jobs and fewer than half of contacts reached, but outsourcing giants will...
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Published in: Home: OpinionThis morning on a Kent beachFarage wants us to fear migrants arriving on our shores. But his footage of them is accidentally beautiful, and...
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Published in: Home: OpinionI saw from the inside how Labour staff worked to prevent a Labour governmentThe work of senior Labour staffers to stop Labour winning is only just starting to come out.
