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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionFor England to be England, it needs to abandon British delusionsYou don’t need to be proud to be English to accept that you are. You can’t abolish a system you don’t recognise
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisSpain’s VOX party and the threat of ‘international environmental populism’In the coming years, we should expect global warming to become one of the major threats from which a ‘European...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionMark Duggan should have been the UK’s George Floyd: why didn’t people let him be?Following the tenth anniversary of Mark Duggan’s killing, the parallels between inequalities in 2011 and 2021 are poignant
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Published in: 50.50: Interview‘I lost my candidacy because I’m trans’: English Green Party member Kathryn Bristow‘I’ve been deemed a risk to the party’s reputation for being transgender,’ Bristow tells openDemocracy in an...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionPalestinian dispossession is nothing new, but the world wasn’t always watchingRecent protests by Palestinians in Israel highlight an ongoing reality of dispossession and discrimination for the...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisWith LGBTQ+ rights in the spotlight, Hungary prepares for a political showdownUpcoming referendum will be a test of opposition to Viktor Orbán’s ‘illiberal democracy’
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionEgyptian researchers must choose between forced exile and arrestThe Sisi regime’s authoritarian clamp-down on Egyptian academic freedom has left researchers with some stark choices
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsSarah Everard vigil: Police under fire over failure to keep meeting recordsPolice accused of being ‘allergic to public scrutiny’ after openDemocracy finds no notes taken at meetings before...
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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: 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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