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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWe should treat slavers like we treated Jimmy Savile
We forgot Saville's charitable works when we found out about his child rape. We should do the same with...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionGeorge Floyd was lynchedBlack Americans have seen their civil rights regress for thirty years
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Published in: HomeUnder pressure, UK government releases NHS COVID data deals with big techHours before openDemocracy was due to sue, government releases massive data-sharing contracts with Amazon,...
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Published in: openJustice: Opinion“We’re like sitting ducks”: how the Home Office is placing life and liberty at riskNew research reveals that the Home Office’s approach to immigration detention during the pandemic is unlawful and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWe must be told what Cummings and Palantir are doing with NHS dataWhy is a firm backed by the CIA, and founded by a Trump-supporting billionaire, getting access to a massive store of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationRevealed: Coronavirus self employment grant could cost you months of universal creditA flaw in the Universal Credit system could "clobber" people receiving the government's coronavirus self-employment...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDemocracyWatch: The militarised crackdown on protests has haunted a world under lockdownAcross the world, Black people are first in line for pandemic human rights abuses.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe Trumpification of the Conservative partyJohnson and Cummings are waging information war on the UK.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNumber 10 must lift briefing ban on openDemocracy, says European press freedom watchdogGovernment accused of attempting to “isolate and punish critical coverage” by boycotting media outlets.
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe Cummings-Johnson sagaIs there an unhealthy emotional dependency inside Downing Street that threatens our democracy?
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Published in: openDemocracyUK“The government gives me £35 a week to buy food… During the lockdown, my kids do not receive free school meals”As a refugee and single mother, lockdown in the UK is hard. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionDowning Street condemned over ‘vindictive’ treatment of openDemocracyNumber 10’s ban on openDemocracy asking questions at COVID-19 briefings part of a “Trumpian” attack on press...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Investigation‘Not like Dominic Cummings!’ Boris Johnson’s dad and the 300-mile lockdown laptop tripStanley Johnson’s computer wasn’t working – so a University of Buckingham technician and his young son drove 150...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionCummings is caught in the bomb he placed under British politicsThe government tried to shirk responsibility for their pandemic failures by making it a story about individual blame.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI met Keir Starmer’s donkeys – and they told me something about himThe Mail on Sunday dug for dirt on the new Labour leader. They found something very different.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe nature of the threat: culpable ignorance and the humiliation of the Johnson Government in the COVID crisisLawrence Freedman’s preliminary account of scientific advice and political judgement hitherto in UK-policymaking...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionPeter Oborne shortlisted for Orwell prize – after other papers rejected himHis forensic attacks on Brexit and Boris Johnson were turned down by bigger UK media outlets. So openDemocracy stepped up.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionOut of the Belly of Hell: COVID-19 and the humanisation of globalisationIt turns out we did change the world. And we must keep changing it.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionConstitutions that build citizen power and joyAs we rebuild from the wreckage, let's consider how the structures of the state have fatally limited what feels...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy does the political left fail grassroots movements?Can the left translate emancipatory practices into an electoral project?