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Published in: 50.50: FeatureThe mental health crisis in women’s prisonsExperts slam the government’s £1.5m plan to create more jail places in England as prisoners’ self-harm rates soar
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Published in: Home: NewsPrisoners still being locked up for 23 hours a day despite record self-harmPrisoners are spending long hours in overcrowded cells without any rehabilitation activities, damning new reports warn
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Published in: Home: OpinionEngland has long been starved of access to nature. It’s time to reclaim itOPINION: Little wonder that a judge wrongly ruled wild camping was ‘not recreational’. We must take back our commons
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Published in: Home: Feature‘What else can we cut out?’ Parents struggle with crippling childcare feesParents in England tell openDemocracy of remortgaging homes or taking on second jobs to pay for rising childcare fees
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Published in: Home: NewsKids skimping on meals to buy food for hungry friends, youth workers warnExclusive: Youth workers have spoken of ‘a failure of society’ as kids take on responsibility for feeding friends
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Published in: Home: OpinionDroughts and wildfires prove we need to end private land ownershipWe can’t accept an annual lurch from droughts to floods – we must take our land back from the aristocracy
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Published in: Home: OpinionIt’s not the break-up of Britain… yetElection results show that the ground is shifting in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But the future of the UK...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhile ‘beergate’ dominates headlines, UK politics quietly changes foreverThe pundits of London’s metropolitan media are focused on Keir Starmer’s curry. But they’re all missing the bigger story
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Published in: Home: OpinionCounting calories doesn’t work. The government is wrong to force us to do soAs eating disorders rise, a new law requiring calorie counts on menus in England hugely misses the mark – and could...
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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: InvestigationFamilies’ plea over ‘barbaric’ indefinite prison sentences for minor crimesExclusive: Thousands left in English and Welsh prisons without release dates, despite controversial indefinite...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsTesting firms ‘lost’ thousands who entered England with COVIDExclusive: Labour accused UK government of failing to regulate the ‘Wild West’ travel testing market that is failing...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisDeciding Britain’s Future: Tom Nairn, Gordon Brown, Marxism and NationalismAn account of the origins and influence of the most important book on British politics for 50 years
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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: OpinionAs a former officer, I'm horrified by England and Wales’s Police BillThe bill could spell the end of policing by consent – and force police leaders to decide whether to use draconian...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionCulture wars aren't a distraction, they're a battle over everythingFor some, the ‘war on woke’ is just common sense. But they’ll find that the pillars holding up England’s traditional...
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Published in: ourNHS: NewsGo private for the treatment you need, NHS tells patientsPatients are being refused treatment, discharged too early and pushed towards private referrals, openDemocracy’s...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Feature10,000 Airbnbs and nowhere to live: Cornwall’s housing crisisHow a summer of staycations hit the renters living in one of the UK’s most desirable destinations
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Published in: ourNHS: NewsMillions opt out of England’s health data-sharing planNHS data-sharing scheme put on hold ‘indefinitely’ after public backlash to privacy concerns raised by openDemocracy
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionFor England to be England, it needs to abandon British delusionsYou don’t need to be proud to be English to accept that you are. You can’t abolish a system you don’t recognise
