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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThatcher’s poisonous television legacy is still being felt30 years ago this week Margaret Thatcher left Downing Street – but ITV has never recovered from her government’s...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionScottish Labour must return to its radical rootsLabour is becalmed ahead of Scotland’s election. For the party to surge, it needs to ride the current of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationConservative Party ‘racially profiled’ 10 million votersTories bought tools to work out voters’ race and religion before 2019 election.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWar isn’t the biggest threat to the UK’s security – but is getting the moneyThe UK is going to spend billions more on its military while cutting foreign aid and failing to tackle either...
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Published in: openJusticeLess time in school, more time in prison: children during CoronavirusOn this year's International Children’s Day, the government are sidelining children’s rights.
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Published in: ourNHS: InvestigationRevealed: Boris Johnson’s controversial policy chief leading secretive NHS task forceMunira Mirza heading up group meeting ‘daily or weekly’ to plan ‘radical NHS shakeup’.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionScottish devolution is a disaster… if you’re Boris JohnsonThe contrast between Sturgeon and Johnson’s COVID response is awakening a new political imagination.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWill Johnson rein in the racism now Trump has lost?Boris Johnson brought Trumpism to Britain. Will he change his act?
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationDeloitte’s COVID ‘bonanza’: this is how much the British public has paid so farThe government has given the giant firm £40m to oversee 'failing' Test and Trace – with no sign of any contract. So...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIt's time we realised social movements are more than just a warm-up actTen years on from the UK's vast student protests, it's time to realise how important they were.
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Published in: openJustice: OpinionDemocracy, policing and the coronavirus pandemicPolicing during the pandemic shows that we still have a long way to go before the UK can say it polices by consent.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionDrug prohibition isn't working - and the problem is getting worse in lockdownBritain’s drug policy is based more on the country's history of war, snobbery, and racism than on evidence of what works.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionTrump or Biden, trade deals still threaten Britain’s NHSWhether a UK deal with an 'America First' president, or Biden’s more traditional global trade stance, battles ahead...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Nuclear disarmament : from ‘open-ended talks’ to ratification and beyondNow the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is due to become international law, nuclear powers need to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe UK is increasingly run by corporate insiders. And Scotland is, tooFrom a new biography of the prime minister to an interview with the man behind the SNP’s independence plans,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionUK universities’ dangerous reliance on China is being driven by marketisationInstitutions are being forced to risk academic freedom under current funding model.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionAs the world burns, the UK must lead once moreThe gaps in the Climate Change Act urgently need patching.
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Published in: openJustice: InvestigationSedated and abandoned: the struggle to care for my disabled daughter during lockdown
From one week to the next Lauryn, 17, went from having a full package of support for her severe learning...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionIt’s time for a migrant rights movement“ This lurch to the right, towards escalated attacks and rhetoric, will not end on its own.”
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationGypsies and Travellers face “segregation by planning” in new housing developmentsTravellers are being placed beside sewage works, busy railway lines and polluted industrial sites.