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Published in: 50.50: FeatureThe mental health crisis in women’s prisons
Experts 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-harm
Prisoners 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 it
OPINION: 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 fees
Parents 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 warn
Exclusive: 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 ownership
We 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… yet
Election 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 forever
The 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 so
As 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 protest
Protesters 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 crimes
Exclusive: 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 COVID
Exclusive: 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 Nationalism
An 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 laws
Gypsy, 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 Bill
The 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 everything
For 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 patients
Patients 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 crisis
How 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 plan
NHS 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 delusions
You don’t need to be proud to be English to accept that you are. You can’t abolish a system you don’t recognise