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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsDavid Cameron met vaccines minister before firm he advises won health contractsExclusive: Ex-PM met the vaccines minister to discuss genome sequencing – two months before the genome firm he...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionAttacks on academic freedom escalate in France and DenmarkThe social sciences have been under attack from right-wing populists for years. What’s worrying is that mainstream...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsUK faces insecure job ‘crisis’ as government plans to pull pandemic safety net awayKey workers, new parents and those unable to work will suffer when furlough pay stops and benefits are cut back
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTunisia’s presidential power-grab is a test for its democracyPresident Saied’s ‘constitutional coup’ on 25 July was a dark day for Tunisian and Arab democratization
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsOnly six UK employers prosecuted for paying below minimum wage in six yearsExclusive: ‘Pathetic’ prosecution rate criticised, amid new findings government gave many firms furlough cash...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaColombia protests: a photo essayPhotographer Andrés “trifulkart” Trujillo captures the drama of the anti-government demonstrations that have rocked Colombia
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionThe enduring appeal of Sayyid Qutb’s jihadist ideologySayyid Qutb’s ‘Milestones’, published in 1964, has been the ideological force behind a succession of violent Islamist groups
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisJohnson continues his war on Whitehall with new nomination for powerful jobWilliam Shawcross is just the British government’s latest replacement for an inconveniently independent public servant
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisWhy Cubans took to the streetsIt is no surprise that the young are confronting an old revolution that refuses to accept its failure in bringing...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsA quarter of Tory MPs are private landlordsExclusive: ‘Clear conflict of interests’ as 115 MPs earn thousands of pounds by renting out property
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: AnalysisIn Poland, public funding is given to those threatening liberal democracyRight-wing, conservative and nationalist magazines were the primary beneficiaries of funds recently allocated by the...
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Published in: oDR: Interview“Our governor”: lessons from the protests in Russia’s Far East, one year onLast year's protest wave in the Russian Far East captured public attention - but one year on, what have we learned?
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: News20% of UK political donations come from just ten menExclusive: Ten men with an average age of 70, most of whom are white, gave £106m – while women gave just one in four...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionSoap operas will not save Turkey’s reputation in LebanonAs Lebanon struggles to create a new government following the port explosion and amid protests, two nations vie for...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsShadowy groups face ‘no risk’ for breaking UK election law, experts tell MPsThe UK’s outdated election laws are vulnerable to abuse by third-party campaigning groups with no paper trail, a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: InterviewThe European cultural sector, pandemic precarity, and Universal Basic IncomePhilosopher and political economist Philippe Van Parijs looks at whether the cultural sector could benefit from a...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionReligion and the state: unintended effects of anti-radicalisation policiesEuropean governments’ anti-radicalisation policies may threaten the relationship between the citizen and the state
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionWe must have transparency in political funding – here’s whyClosing one loophole would stop the world’s oligarchs, billionaires and criminals from secretly buying influence on...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Prisoners of the system"During the run up to the French regional and departmental votes across the last week of June, all electors were...
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Published in: 50.50: InterviewSiân Berry on transphobia in the Green Party: ‘We have a problem to solve’
Exclusive: Days after quitting as co-leader, Berry talks to openDemocracy about the rifts in her party and the need...
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