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Published in: Home: OpinionIs there any real benefit to city status? Luckily for Reading, probably notThe town (sorry) has once again had its bid to become a city rejected, this time in a competition for the jubilee
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Published in: Home: OpinionFar-right conspiracy theories are now embedded in the UK mainstreamAnd no wonder, when British journalists promote conspiracy theories and government politicians embrace extremist rhetoric
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Published in: Home: OpinionThank you, Derry Girls, for telling the story of my complicated adolescenceLike the Derry Girls, I was 18 when I voted for the Good Friday Agreement. The show perfectly captured the darkness,...
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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: 50.50: OpinionI was a child of Section 28. ‘Heartstopper’ helps heal the painThe new British drama series shows LGBTIQ freedom as a normal part of school life. If only my own school days had...
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Published in: Changemakers: OpinionWhy we need feminist leadership for climate justiceWomen from the Global South, who have long fought inequality, understand that radically different tools are needed...
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Published in: Home: FeatureDispatches from Westminster Greggs: ‘who’s Lorraine?’, GMB and Starmer beersAn openDemocracy contact found the following memo under a decaf flat white in the Westminster Greggs. We cannot...
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Published in: Home: FeatureNo, decolonising your bookshelf doesn’t mean getting rid of Jane AustenIt is a truth universally acknowledged that the right-wing press will inflame any debate on decolonisation,...
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Published in: Home: Feature‘Forget about Elon Musk’: How to save the world from Big TechIn an openDemocracy live discussion, Shoshana Zuboff and Susie Alegre warned that, left unchecked, Big Tech can...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: OpinionMichael Gove smeared us. Now we have been vindicated by an official inquiryThe levelling up secretary attacked our ‘Clearing House’ reporting. Today, he is the one who looks ‘ridiculous’
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsBoris Johnson’s government slammed by MPs over FOI 'Clearing House' secrecyParliamentary inquiry launched in the wake of openDemocracy's revelations condemns Cabinet Office's handling of...
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Published in: Live discussionsCan we stop Big Tech getting inside our heads?Social media and e-commerce giants are influencing what we buy, how we vote and who we love. Now the war in Ukraine...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureZelenskyi’s spokesperson: soldier, actor, psychologist, propagandistOleksiy Arestovych, presidential adviser and key spokesperson for Ukraine at war, has a strange past
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe Online Safety Bill endangers us by ignoring digital threats to democracyIn 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: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow can the deadly violence against Mexican journalists be stopped?Between cartels and corrupt politicians, the country is among the most dangerous to be a journalist. Eight have been...
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Published in: Home: FeatureChannel 4 gave these young people their break. Now it’s up for saleProducers who worked on C4 programmes say the broadcaster was already ‘levelling up’. Will a private owner be so...
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Published in: oDR: InterviewThis is how Kyiv’s oldest newspaper is covering Russia’s war on UkraineEvening Kyiv is the Ukrainian capital’s oldest newspaper. Its chief editor told us what he has learned about working...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsEditors and MPs urge watchdog to act over escalating government secrecyopenDemocracy leads campaign to enforce transparency laws as government accused of abusing Freedom of Information...
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Published in: Home: News5 times Channel 4 left the UK government red-facedChannel 4 has had a long reputation of holding our government to account. Is privatisation payback?
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Published in: Home: OpinionPrivatising Channel 4 is a right-wing attack on media freedom. Here’s whyThe government’s actions echo the behaviour of populists elsewhere in the world. But there’s a twist
