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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI covered Stephen Port’s murders. I know Cressida Dick’s departure isn’t enough
As a gay journalist, I connected the dots on the killings – and was intimidated by police for doing my job
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsLondon is a ‘magnet for dirty money’, says UK government’s anti-corruption tsar
The Conservative MP writes today on openDemocracy that urgent action is needed to stop ‘growing’ levels of fraud
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionRevealed: The tax avoider’s secret weapon
The Pandora Papers show how the tax industry uses ‘special purpose vehicles’ to avoid stamp duty – despite repeated...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsLondon Stock Exchange under fire for financing Belarusian dictator
Exclusive: MPs call on British government to act over $1.25bn Belarusian bonds issued in London, demand review City...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCool it, Cleese
An open letter to John Cleese on London, Brexit and Englishness.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLondon - the most English of cities?
London is often seen as separate and aloof from England. But there’s a more complex story about its culture, which...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThink Anew, Act Anew: a Convention on Brexit and a People's Vote
An emergency, public gathering in London will take place this Friday ahead of the big parliamentary debate on the UK...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSave Ridley Road – how the community is fighting back against faceless developers
Whilst the media bemoans the ‘death of the high street’, across London, investors are trying to drive out the kind...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK7 ways the ‘Finance Curse’ harms the UK – how can we lift it?
The City of London is a huge drag on the UK’s real economy. But we can – and must – lift the 'Finance Curse'.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGeorge Osborne’s Evening Standard under fire (again) over lucrative Uber deal
Exclusive: Politicians call on UK advertising watchdog to investigate paid-for content dressed up as news at...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOpinion: George Osborne’s real ‘Future London’ is a crass exercise that readers won’t swallow
Someone needs to tell Osborne that Londoners are not mugs. The rebrand of his controversial deal with Uber, Google...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGeorge Osborne’s Evening Standard launches delayed ‘money-can’t-buy’ campaign – with more controversial partners
Private healthcare firm and a French conglomerate with a record of lawsuits against media join Uber, Google and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGeorge Osborne’s Evening Standard delays controversial Uber, Google deal
In the wake of ‘cash for column inches’ scandal and calls for Osborne to resign, newspaper denies that £3 million...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOsborne’s Evening Standard ‘cash for column inches’ denials ‘do not stack up’ – says Caroline Lucas
Green Party leader calls on London paper to ‘come clean’ about its hidden commercial agendas – citing another...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEveryday Lexiteers - an interview
"The European Union is inherently racist, unchanging, technocratic and oppressive. Nothing makes any of those things...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGeorge Osborne’s London Evening Standard sells its editorial independence to Uber, Google and others – for £3 million
Exclusive: Newspaper promised six commercial giants “money-can’t-buy” news coverage in a lucrative deal, leaving...
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Published in: oDRThe uncomfortable truth about post-Soviet comfort foods
What nourishes us also destroys us: this old saying holds true not only for food, but also politics.
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Published in: 50.50Young, trans Nigerians: ‘people need to see that we exist’
It may become harder for church and state to deny that trans Nigerians exist, thanks to activists like Miss saHHara.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK5 ways to solve the housing crisis
Our cities need homes - not safety deposit boxes in the sky.
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Published in: TransformationThree more ways to build solidarity across our differences
For most people divisive rhetoric isn’t new; they’ve been developing ways to counter it for years.