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Published in: openDemocracyUK: FeatureDispatches from Westminster Greggs: BYOB, wine time and Big Dog’s dank beatsAn oD contact ‘found’ this dossier under a pile of napkins. Investigations as to its authenticity have been hampered...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionAfter two years of COVID, Johnson’s priority is still wealth over healthThis week marks two years since the first mention of COVID in UK media. Looking back, the government's path was...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsUK broke law with COVID deals for ‘VIP’ firms run by government contacts
High Court rules ministers acted unlawfully by giving multi-million-pound PPE supply deals to a pest control company...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhat is UK government hiding on WhatsApp? We have no idea – that’s the problemWe know Boris Johnson asked Lord Brownlow for money for his flat refurb because the latter kept the messages. But...
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Published in: Home: OpinionVaccinate the worldIf we believe in democracy, economic success or basic survival, the world’s media must send the message loud and clear
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionThe privilege of staying home: COVID and the highly skilled workforceRemote working during the pandemic allowed once-mobile skilled workers to choose immobility, with possible long-term...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionHow did England end up in this unprepared Omicron mess?Johnson and his cabinet have wasted their time, our money, expert science and the goodwill of both NHS workers and the public
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI missed my grandma’s last Christmas as Downing Street partiedIt’s one rule for the British government and another for everybody else: a lockdown for us, a party for them
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Published in: Home: OpinionWill it take a COVID strain deadlier than Omicron to wake up world leaders?The WHO had warned that worldwide vaccination was vital to ward off new variants, yet here we are. Blame the latest...
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Published in: Home: OpinionVaccine apartheid is prolonging COVID – not vaccine hesitancy
There’s a colonial tendency to portray people in Africa as anti-science and averse to progress, when the real...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: FeatureHow the UK’s East and South-East Asian communities are fighting COVID-related violenceMigrant and diaspora communities are coming together to respond to a rise in racist violence
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsMPs mock UK government for claiming it was transparent on COVID contractsMPs said the Department of Health’s boast that it has ‘gone above and beyond’ to be open about pandemic spending is ‘risible’
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionPundits say British politics is undergoing a post-neoliberal shift. They’re wrongOn the contrary, the new capitalist variant may look much like the old
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Published in: Migrant Futures: FeatureGetting a foothold in global opera: the cost of COVIDAspiring singers are finding it hard to begin careers in the world of international opera because of difficulties...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsTory MP facing lobbying probe helped firm win 'VIP lane' PPE dealLeak reveals ministers and MPs, including former health minister Steve Brine, referred private firms to ‘VIP’ list...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe Welsh government is escaping scrutiny over COVID-19A landmark report showed Westminster’s terrible mistakes in the pandemic. But Wales made its own mistakes, too
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionUK government’s pandemic deal was win-win… for private hospitalsA multi-billion-pound contract enlisted 187 private hospitals to help the UK’s COVID response. Why did they care for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionOn holiday in sunny, sensible Portugal, I realised England is bad, actuallyThe Portuguese use masks to keep COVID at bay, while the English rely on nostalgia and a misguided sense of national...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsBoris Johnson’s ex-adviser has role at firm that won £3.5m government ‘support’Exclusive: Hydro Industries donated £20,000 to the Tories at the same time it secured funding meant for struggling businesses
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureIn search of a COVID-19 vaccine in YemenConspiracy theories, misinformation and Houthi refusals to vaccinate people in areas under their control mean that...
