Arron Banks may have lost his case, but it’s a dark day for press freedom, campaigners warn

Tens of thousands of pounds were spent on ads to be shown by Facebook and Instagram

The town (sorry) has once again had its bid to become a city rejected, this time in a competition for the jubilee

And no wonder, when British journalists promote conspiracy theories and government politicians embrace extremist rhetoric

Like the Derry Girls, I was 18 when I voted for the Good Friday Agreement. The show perfectly captured the darkness,...

The pundits of London’s metropolitan media are focused on Keir Starmer’s curry. But they’re all missing the bigger story

The new British drama series shows LGBTIQ freedom as a normal part of school life. If only my own school days had...

Women from the Global South, who have long fought inequality, understand that radically different tools are needed...

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An openDemocracy contact found the following memo under a decaf flat white in the Westminster Greggs. We cannot...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the right-wing press will inflame any debate on decolonisation,...

In an openDemocracy live discussion, Shoshana Zuboff and Susie Alegre warned that, left unchecked, Big Tech can...

The levelling up secretary attacked our ‘Clearing House’ reporting. Today, he is the one who looks ‘ridiculous’

Parliamentary inquiry launched in the wake of openDemocracy's revelations condemns Cabinet Office's handling of...

Social media and e-commerce giants are influencing what we buy, how we vote and who we love. Now the war in Ukraine...

Oleksiy Arestovych, presidential adviser and key spokesperson for Ukraine at war, has a strange past

In Russia, Putin's propaganda reminds us of the risk of online manipulation. Why are our MPs failing to address it?

Between cartels and corrupt politicians, the country is among the most dangerous to be a journalist. Eight have been...

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Producers who worked on C4 programmes say the broadcaster was already ‘levelling up’. Will a private owner be so...

Evening Kyiv is the Ukrainian capital’s oldest newspaper. Its chief editor told us what he has learned about working...

openDemocracy leads campaign to enforce transparency laws as government accused of abusing Freedom of Information...