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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe shape of screens to comeWhy is there so little that’s good to watch on traditional TV channels these days? A new Ofcom report explains the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe answer to the current crisis is more democracy, not lessMPs won't let this coup happen
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJohnson aims to blindside Remainers – there’s only one way to stop himHe needs a Brexit that will keep him in office whoever is US president in 2021 – can Caroline Lucas prevent this?
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Published in: ourEconomyNow is not the time to defend Britain’s democracy – we need a democratic revolutionThe ancient institutions of the British state are well past their sell-by date. Only a radical shake-up can resolve...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhen will progressive politics get serious?The choice currently seems to be either Corbynism that can’t get us out of this mess, or the vapid centrism that...
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Published in: openMedia“Diversity: The BBC may fool itself but it won’t fool the Lords”Problems arising from the BBC’s lack of diversity among its programme-makers remain, despite all the BBC initiatives...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUK rape survivors face ‘digital strip searches’ and other deterrents to justiceThe proportion of reported rapes that end in conviction is shockingly low – and new forms of obstacles to justice...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMy home, your home – the volunteers welcoming migrants into their homes and communitiesA global trend of criminalising those who help migrants is underway – but less spectacular acts of defiance are also...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Mask of AnarchyWritten on the occasion of the Peterloo massacre at Manchester, which took place two hundred years ago.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPeterloo led eventually to electoral democracy – but there’s one big bit of unfinished businessNew evidence shows that it’s the Right that tend to benefit from the UK's unequal electoral system. The Left is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Telegraph’s Brexit poll is bogus, but broadcasters seem not to have noticedPollsters and broadcasters mustn’t allow themselves to become accomplices to propaganda selling a false version of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The broken mirror: intersectionality and the loss of the universalThe ‘disarticulation’ of class results in the loss of the possibility of a structural and therefore truly radical...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAusterity has made people less prepared for a no-deal BrexitThe government says it's preparing to crash out of the EU. But ten years of spending cuts have made the people of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain after Brexit: welcome to the vulture restaurantUS business will asset-strip the UK, but that’s not all: the Pentagon will find the little-known fragments of the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat we could learn from lawyers - and from China - about protecting the planetJames Thornton of ClientEarth has fought court cases to challenge government inaction on climate, environment and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSecurity wins the day over privacy: High Court rules Snoopers’ Charter is not a breach of human rightsA worrying judgement suggests "safeguards" are enough to allow mass surveillance, even if they're not being adhered to.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGreens could now benefit from more radical co-operation with other partiesThe Brecon and Radnorshire deal has worked, but if the Greens want to get in a position to avert climate disaster,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJohnson’s strength is his divided opposition – is Labour brave enough to respond?With Boris Johnson vocally setting up 'the people vs parliamentary elites' and promising a public spending splurge,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK9 reasons the International Development Sector needs to get political, address power relations, and adopt a transformative agendaThe Sustainable Development Goals are sending out distress signals. They won’t eradicate global poverty whilst...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKInvisible in plain sight: fighting loneliness in the homeless communityHave a chat with someone on the streets and you may help and, perhaps, come away with an important story. This is Rupi’s.