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Published in: Home: NewsLawfare perpetrators should pay into journalists’ defence fund, says Tory peer
Tina Stowell said action to crack down on SLAPPs was ‘wholly inadequate’ following revelations by openDemocracy
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealed: MPs’ staff bankrolled by climate sceptics and gambling industry
Exclusive: Campaigner warns of ‘conflict of interest’ over donors who gave £1m to fund MPs’ staff and offices
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsDefence firm part-owned by Johnson’s £1m donor wins £80m MoD contract
Christopher Harborne is the largest single shareholder in QinetiQ, which announced a lucrative government deal this week
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Published in: Home: NewsGas industry paid lobbyists £200,000 to get MPs’ support for ‘blue hydrogen’
Ex-Shell worker Alexander Stafford MP chairs parliamentary pressure group run by industry-funded Connect PA firm
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Published in: Freedom of Information: FeatureWhat we discovered via Freedom of Information this year
From secret government units to the failings of the Met Police, here’s what openDemocracy revealed via FOI in 2022
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Published in: Home: OpinionPosties like me are working ourselves to death. Enough is enough
OPINION: I’ve been a Royal Mail worker for 30 years. Here’s why I’m going on strike
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Published in: Home: OpinionI’ve been an NHS nurse for 15 years. Here’s why I’m going on strike
OPINION: As nurses strike, the Tories must start paying them fairly to save the NHS from collapse
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Published in: Home: NewsMPs slam top ‘lawfare’ firm for keeping finances secret
Exclusive: Carter-Ruck has been accused of harassing journalists for wealthy clients. But its profits remain secret
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Published in: Home: NewsPro-Israel lobby group is biggest donor of free overseas trips to MPs
Exclusive: Conservative Friends of Israel funded 155 trips in a decade, more than any other group or government
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Published in: Home: OpinionI sit in the House of Lords. That’s how I know it needs to go
NATALIE BENNETT: I’ve seen first-hand how our unelected upper chamber stops us tackling the government’s bad laws
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Published in: Home: NewsExclusive: Moonlighting MPs raked in £9.6m from second jobs in a year
MPs’ earnings outside the Commons have doubled year-on-year as Labour unveils plans to clamp down on side hustles
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Published in: Home: OpinionSunak and Braverman have learnt nothing from asylum seekers’ deaths
OPINION: Britain and Australia have legacies of colonial violence. Of course those seeking their asylum are dying
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Qatar has spent £440,000 hosting British MPs since 2012
openDemocracy analysis reveals extent of Qatar’s charm offensive in the decade leading up to the World Cup
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Published in: Home: NewsPrivate renters will face ‘winter of hardship’ after autumn statement
Campaigners had urged the government to cap private rents alongside social rents, which will be limited to a 7% rise
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWe need a feminist economic alternative to Sunak and Hunt’s plans
OPINION: Prioritising profit over people has disproportionately affected women and girls. It shouldn’t be this way
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Published in: Home: AnalysisWe crunched voters’ data from 36 years of elections. Here’s what we found
The Sun wot won it? Researchers dig into decades of voter data to find out who really swings elections in the UK
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Published in: Home: OpinionFirst-past-the-post was meant to deliver stability. It’s time to junk it
OPINION: Our chaotic electoral system is the result of 60 years of tweaks to a fundamentally unjust base
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Published in: Home: NewsHundreds have spent 15 years in jail under abolished indefinite sentences
Exclusive: Revelation will put pressure on incoming justice secretary to deal with legacy of ‘IPP’ jail terms
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealed: Policing bill was dreamed up by secretive oil-funded think tank
Controversial anti-protest law may have originated in briefing from Policy Exchange, our investigation reveals
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Published in: Home: Analysis5 ways MPs’ new rulebook could let dodgy politicians off the hook
The Standards Committee says its proposals are ‘robust’. Here are some reasons that they aren't