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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionHow the UK helps the world’s kleptocrats and crooks – deliberately‘Financial skulduggery isn’t just something that happens in the UK; there has been a concerted and decades-long...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIn the fight for racial justice, optimism is not enoughOur desire for a better world must not lead us to ignore the fact that inequality is systemic, and ongoing
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionStaff and students in universities across the UK deserve betterIndustrial action is a response to intolerable working conditions, and an attempt to make education a better...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe disturbing resurgence of antisemitic conspiracy theoriesAntisemitic incidents in the UK reached an all-time high in the UK in 2021. Social media has helped breathe new life...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsGoldsmiths strike: Why we’re fighting the marketisation of higher educationIn recent weeks, many UK universities have seen staff walkouts in protest against pension cuts, deteriorating...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsPro-Russia Westminster group at centre of lobbying row disbandsThe Tory-linked group had been due to host its first in-person event for two years today, aimed at strengthening...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsUK’s Policing Bill would silence us, says Ukrainian protesterWarning that Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will criminalise protest: “Just how different from Russia is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationPrisoners ‘may have been refused parole due to fake crimes on files’Exclusive: Claim comes as Labour, Lib Dems, Greens and SNP add to pressure for those serving ‘inhuman’ indefinite...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIn wars where social justice is at stake, socialists have to take a sideOur key objective should be to stop the invasion escalating into all-out conflict between NATO and Russia, but we do...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: The lobbyist who helps Russian elites get access to Boris JohnsonFormer Russian politician Sergey Pechinin tells his clients: ‘We open closed doors’
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsUK is ‘top destination’ for Russians looking to hide dirty money in propertyFormer deputy prime minister sanctioned by EU among those who own multi-million-pound London properties
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsPolicing bill: MPs have one last chance to protect the right to protestProtesters are urging MPs to ‘use their privilege for power’ next week when the notorious bill returns to the...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsExclusive: 623 new ‘British’ companies are actually controlled from RussiaIt comes amid calls to bring sanctions against oligarchs and restrict the flow of Russian money through British businesses
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsUkrainians in London tell of anguish at Downing Street protestHundreds gathered in Whitehall to call for tougher sanctions on Russia in the wake of Thursday’s invasion
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsFresh Tory lobbying row over unregulated ‘Westminster Russia Forum’Exclusive: The group, once called Conservative Friends of Russia, is set to hold a ‘multilateral relations...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsTory MP’s Wiki page scrubbed of Azerbaijan lobbying – by user in ParliamentBob Blackman’s biography was whitewashed of references to an openDemocracy investigation, but the edit was spotted by a bot
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: News200 Russian millionaires bought way into UK in seven years since ‘clampdown’Exclusive: ‘Golden visa’ scheme afforded oligarchs special treatment despite ‘security concerns’ that eventually saw...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBoris Johnson’s party is dismantling the ways to hold government to accountThe Electoral Commission is only the latest target in the Tory party’s determination to destroy any semblance of scrutiny
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsAPPGs scandal: MP reveals how lobby firm tried to use her to influence ParliamentCalls for independent inquiry as SNP’s Alison Thewliss reveals she was asked to set up an All-Party Parliamentary...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Review‘One Party After Another’: A detailed biography of Farage that lacks criticismMichael Crick’s new book impressively amasses more information on the ex-UKIP leader than ever before – but fails to...