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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: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe UK government is looking to profit from closing borders to asylum seekersAs 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 inIt 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 ownThe 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 jobYet 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 toldThe 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 terrifyingEverything 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 waitersThe 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 scandalSome Tory MPs hit back at voters over ‘destruction’ of Owen Paterson, while others admit being ‘deeply unhappy’...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionNo second jobs for MPs, declare all lobbying: how Labour can fight corruptionThe 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 goalpostsThe 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 secrecyExclusive: Landmark openDemocracy report exposes depth of the government’s attack on the Freedom of Information Act
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Published in: Freedom of Information: FeatureIn the UK, government secrecy is growing. Here's how we fight backOn International Right to Know Day, here’s what openDemocracy has exposed about the threat to Freedom of Information
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsMPs condemn UK government's ‘abuse’ of taxpayer money to fight FOIsExclusive: Government accused of ‘misusing’ vast sums after openDemocracy revealed half a million pounds was spent...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsUK government accused of ‘rigging democracy’ with election changesPlans to impose First Past the Post voting system on mayoral and police crime commissioner elections were ‘sneaked...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionHancock is gone, but the rot at the heart of UK government is only getting worseDon’t be fooled, Boris Johnson’s administration is still without transparency or scruples
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsMichael Gove broke law over COVID contracts, High Court rulesThe judge said Gove acted with ‘apparent bias’ after openDemocracy revealed £560,000 deal with firm run by his former adviser
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Published in: Freedom of Information: OpinionCynical British public bodies are denying our FOI rightsFreedom of Information is a powerful tool for citizens - but the UK's legislation needs to be amended to prevent...
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Published in: ourBeebScrutinising the Scrutineers: part 1The European Scrutiny Committee has locked horns with the BBC, repeatedly accusing it of a pro-EU bias. Is the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRighting a wrong: how to restore decency to the British Indian Ocean TerritoryPast injustices inflicted on the last outpost of empire need to be acknowledged – and redressed.
