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Published in: Home: NewsSunak’s jobs scheme left young people in debt and failed to vet employers
Exclusive: Under-25s were treated like ‘free bodies’ under the government’s £1.9bn Kickstart project
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Published in: Home: AnalysisMinisters’ attacks on judges threaten UK democracy, warns new report
Government attacks risk giving the impression that the courts are being pressured to rule in Boris Johnson's favour
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Published in: Home: OpinionTo ‘level up’, the UK needs a real jubilee: a mass write-off of debts
Even before cost of living crisis, the poor owed the government – or, the Crown – £16bn. Why not just write it off?
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe Online Safety Bill endangers us by ignoring digital threats to democracy
In Russia, Putin's propaganda reminds us of the risk of online manipulation. Why are our MPs failing to address it?
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisThe UK can sanction Russian luxury property. But will it?
As tension heightens over Ukraine, experts say targeting the Russian elite’s UK property would be difficult – and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsHow Jacob Rees-Mogg’s new Brexit post could make him richer
The new minister for Brexit opportunities is thought to have a 12% stake in an $8bn investment fund that specialises...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIf Tory MPs want to protect freedom, why are they supporting the Elections Bill?
Let’s not suffer from selective liberalism. Civil liberties are for life, not just for Christmas rebellions
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI missed my grandma’s last Christmas as Downing Street partied
It’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: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe UK government is looking to profit from closing borders to asylum seekers
As the UK government pushes its Borders Bill through Parliament, it also makes a sales pitch to other states wanting...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionEngland and Wales’s Police Bill threatens anyone with a cause they believe in
It now proposes new crimes that could criminalise almost any protester and give police alarmingly wide powers of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionUK’s transparency watchdog has a terrible transparency record of its own
The Information Commissioner’s Office, headed by Elizabeth Denham until last month, is failing to stick to its own rule book
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionNew lobbying ban wouldn’t have stopped Owen Paterson from taking second job
Yet again, Parliament’s standards watchdog has botched the rules for MPs – proving that they shouldn’t be allowed to...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsCabinet Office’s actions ‘increase suspicion’ about secretive FOI unit, MPs told
The government department refused to allow a probe into its ‘Orwellian’ Clearing House unit in the wake of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe UK government’s plan to reform data-protection laws are terrifying
Everything that Cambridge Analytica did would probably be legal under these new plans
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBritish politics is an oligarchs’ cocktail party. Tory ministers are the waiters
The recent onslaught of government sleaze shows once again why the UK has been called ‘the most corrupt country in the world’
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsMPs inundated with complaints from voters over Tory sleaze scandal
Some Tory MPs hit back at voters over ‘destruction’ of Owen Paterson, while others admit being ‘deeply unhappy’...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionJohnson’s UK, Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Orbán’s Hungary: peas in a state-captured pod
State capture happens when narrow interest groups take control of public policy, buying influence to rewrite the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionNo second jobs for MPs, declare all lobbying: how Labour can fight corruption
The people should be sovereign – but it is the power of wealth that is steering the UK’s course. A few simple but...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: OpinionOn transparency, like so much else, the UK government is shifting the goalposts
The government dismissed damning openDemocracy report on FOI as ‘complete nonsense’ – I wasn’t surprised, I’ve seen...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: News2020 was worst year on record for UK government secrecy
Exclusive: Landmark openDemocracy report exposes depth of the government’s attack on the Freedom of Information Act
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job