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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsPolicing bill: MPs have one last chance to protect the right to protestProtesters are urging MPs to ‘use their privilege for power’ next week when the notorious bill returns to the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionJohnson’s behaviour has UK minority communities fearing sinister repercussionsThose at the top have already shown disdain for us. Now we know they can lie and have their transgressions covered up
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsNow Met Police won’t say why it refused to probe House of Lords ‘corruption’Exclusive: The force said coming clean on its failure to investigate ‘cash for peerages’ scandal could cause it...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsUK may ditch plans to stop fraudsters using fake names to run businessesJesus Christ, Donald Duck and ‘Adolf Tooth Fairy Hitler’ have all been directors of UK firms, according to Companies House
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIf the UK wants to push back against Russia, it should follow the moneyBritain’s lax approach to dirty money makes it a target for Russian interference, but the government has done...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe UK government is right, the BBC is broken. Here’s how we fix itWe need a People’s BBC – free from government whims – with increased devolution, audience-elected senior roles, and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsUK government spent £40,000 hiding secretive Clearing House unitExclusive: The Cabinet Office has been accused of wasting taxpayer money on efforts to conceal a unit that helped...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsPolice silent over claim Number 10 ‘may have perverted course of justice’Met chief Cressida Dick says only that probe will examine illegal parties, but lawyers say allegation of destroying...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: FeatureUK Traveller communities fear ‘cultural annihilation’ over upcoming trespass lawsGypsy, Roma and Traveller people face imprisonment or hefty fines under new England and Wales Police Bill that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionUK activists keep being acquitted by juries. What does that mean for protest?Much to the anger of the government and the right-wing media, juries simply aren't buying that any disruptions must...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIf Tory whips are blackmailing MPs, that’s corruption. We should call it thatSenior Conservative William Wragg accused whips of threatening to withdraw funds from the constituencies of MPs who...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsClearing House: Government admits it’s done nothing about ‘Orwellian’ unitCabinet Office pledged to review a unit that blocked Freedom of Information requests. Five months on, it hasn’t even...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionElite private members’ clubs are at the heart of Boris Johnson’s governmentThe Conservatives’ use of exclusive clubs – like the Carlton Club – is a throwback to an earlier Toryism
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsUK government slammed for ‘sleazy’ plan that could see DUP leader out-earn PMNorthern Irish politicians accused the government of giving key allies the DUP an ‘overt benefit’ by scrapping...
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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: ExplainerPolicing Bill and Elections Bill: What’s next in fight to save UK democracy?Lords’ defeat of last-minute additions to England and Wales’s Policing Bill hailed as a victory by campaigners, but...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionScottish Tories’ only hope of election success is to form a whole new partyThere is a way forward for the Scottish Conservatives. But it’s not Boris Johnson’s resignation
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionDavid Davis: MPs have last chance to save the UK’s freedom to voteThe government claims the Elections Bill is designed to protect our democracy. As a former Tory minister, I know...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Analysis18 times Boris Johnson was accused of breaking rules – and got away with itFrom illegal lockdown parties to secret financial interests, the prime minister has a long history of sailing close...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI survived abuse by a serving police officer, and I know where impunity leadsMy stepfather used the closed-ranks culture of the Metropolitan Police as cover to terrorise our family. If that...
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