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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Electoral Commission’s private concerns about Russian Tory donors
UK elections watchdog alerted staff to 'interesting donations' from Lubov Chernukhin – and queried other Tory...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Boris Johnson under fire over ‘personal’ meeting with Russian oligarch during COVID-19 pandemic
Prime minister met Evgeny Lebedev’s company days after telling the British public to avoid ‘non-essential contact’....
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: Robert Jenrick in new UK 'cash for favours' row
Boris Johnson’s embattled housing minister took charge of another controversial planning decision – days after the...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWatch: How Dominic Cummings' contempt made us feel
Director Mark Cousins has turned Fintan O'Toole's words into a powerful statement of public anger: 'This Violation'...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe Trumpification of the Conservative party
Johnson and Cummings are waging information war on the UK.
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Published in: HomeBoris Johnson may learn that wars don’t always make leaders popular
The British prime minister wants to be a Churchill but is looking more like George W. Bush.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionDowning Street condemned over ‘vindictive’ treatment of openDemocracy
Number 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 trip
Stanley 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: OpinionPeter Oborne shortlisted for Orwell prize – after other papers rejected him
His 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: OpinionNumber 10 are acting like nightclub doormen in their battle with journalists
Team Johnson's exclusion of journalists means we must all – including the Labour Party – step up to defend a free press.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBoris Johnson is not going to ‘win’: Jeremy Corbyn is going to lose
There is nothing in the prime minister’s record to suggest voters trust him with the keys to Number 10. Luckily for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionAs a lifelong Conservative, here’s why I can’t vote for Boris Johnson
This government is an explicit repudiation of everything it means to be a Conservative. History will judge us accordingly.
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Published in: Home: OpinionWill person-to-person politics put wind in Corbyn’s sails?
Social media and public meetings are filling in what the mainstream ignores, to Labour’s advantage, while an...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsJohnson and Cummings under fire as police hand criminal evidence on Vote Leave to prosecution agency
Exclusive: After 16-month investigation, Met Police refer Vote Leave to the CPS for possible criminal charges. But...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJohnson’s Brexit is inspired by Blair, Eden and Chamberlain - not Churchill
Surrounded by yes-men, cronies and dubious advisors, Johnson is trashing standards in public life and traditional...
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Published in: ourEconomyDude! Where’s my democracy?
People turn to authoritarian leaders not because they distrust democracy but because our system is fundamentally...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: Election pact between Johnson and Farage edges closer
Channels opened between Downing Street and the Brexit Party. Arron Banks prepared to donate substantial funds to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBoris who? Didn’t he use to be famous?
Johnson’s coup has ignited the possibility of a united opposition from below. Now we need to keep our eyes on the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThis is an anti-parliamentary coup – and an internationally-organised one
For Trump, No Deal is imperative; a key step towards a vassal Britain, subject to his rules on everything from...