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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in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsShadowy groups face ‘no risk’ for breaking UK election law, experts tell MPsThe UK’s outdated election laws are vulnerable to abuse by third-party campaigning groups with no paper trail, a...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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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsChair of UK Parliament’s lobbying watchdog faces probe over transparencyEric Pickles is facing an official investigation into his financial declarations, following openDemocracy revelations
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionWhat links organised crime with the radical right?There are serious gaps in our knowledge about how violent extremists get their hands on weapons and money
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsBoris Johnson charged taxpayers £28,000 for fancy-floorboards refurbCabinet Office admits taking Tory donations to fund refurb, before bills were finally paid by the prime minister
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Published in: 50.50: NewsSpanish government questioned about openDemocracy ‘conversion therapy’ findingsFollowing revelations that African clinics run by aid-funded groups offer anti-gay ‘therapy,’ a centre-Right party...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsDozens of Lords accused of ‘shocking lack of transparency’ over financial interestsExclusive: House of Lords condemned as ‘utterly unaccountable’ as openDemocracy investigation finds scores of peers...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionAfter nine months of waiting, Lebanon has neither a government nor accountabilityAs Saad Hariri steps down, anger is still growing at a political class that has led the country into an ever deeper...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsGreen Party co-leader stepping down amid divisions over trans rights‘More urgently than ever we need a transformed society that respects everyone’s rights,’ said Siân Berry in a letter...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionCuba protests: A guide to the island’s largest unrest in over 60 yearsIn unprecedented protests, Cubans demonstrated against their government and its mishandling of the pandemic, only to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsMPs back Boris Johnson’s ‘morally reprehensible’ cuts to UK foreign aidThe £4bn cut to overseas development will ‘cost lives’ and break a promise to the world’s poorest people, critics say
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisWhat’s happening in Haiti?The 7 July assassination of the country’s president, Jovenel Moïse, has thrown the country into disarray. Here’s...
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Published in: 50.50: Feature‘I was afraid I was going to die’: Kenyan survivor of ‘conversion therapy’Survivors of anti-LGBT ‘treatments’ in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda describe effects on their mental health, family...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: News20% of Tory donations come from property tycoonsThe sector gave more than £60m to Boris Johnson’s party over ten years, new analysis by Transparency International shows
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