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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionWhy we’re suing over the £23m NHS data deal with PalantirThe government is battling ‘vaccine hesitancy’. How does sneaking through a massive deal with a controversial spy...
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Published in: HomeSpeaking for ourselves'You’re on mute! ' was actually a perturbing reminder of the ways in which we have all been silenced
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: News50,000 more homes hit by Britain's bedroom tax, as scientists warn of COVID-19 riskSoaring benefits claims since the start of the pandemic have resulted in a jump in households affected by the...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationFresh evidence prompts calls for probe into anti-Labour 'dark money' groupsExclusive: Electoral Commission urged to investigate potential coordination between ‘near identical’ campaigns that...
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Published in: Home: OpinionA century without war is needed to survive environmental threatsHuge military budgets will not protect us from extinction. Nations must redirect spending towards human security and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: ReviewWhy truth is too weak to stop a liar like Boris JohnsonPeter Oborne writes of ‘the nightmare assumption that emotion is more important than thought’. But it’s not just an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThis should be Scotland’s rewilding electionLife is draining from our hills and glens. We must use the coming Holyrood election to change course, before it’s too late
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsStamp duty holiday leading to homelessness, new figures suggestExclusive: Tenants’ rights activists tell openDemocracy that some landlords are trying to cash in by speeding up evictions
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Published in: 50.50: NewsUK government cites US anti-LGBT ‘hate group’ in free speech proposalsADF International, an anti-abortion, ‘dark money’-funded think tank, provided ‘evidence’ for decline in free speech...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionAnother ‘Roaring Twenties’? Only if the rich pay their fair shareGovernments must take urgent action to tackle the twin problems of runaway debts and soaring inequality, before they...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWhy are women being disproportionately penalised for TV licence non-payment?A staggering 74% of people convicted of non-payment of the licence fee in the UK are women – though they make up...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsCummings lobbied for ‘friends’ to get fat contract for COVID focus groupsShadow minister says it's ‘appalling’ that the government dismissed concerns of bias raised after openDemocracy...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionOf course Cumbria’s proposed coal mine is popular locally. The government offers no green alternativeIn an area scarred by decades of deindustralisation and reeling from the economic fallout of COVID-19, the...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionWhy did the government say revealing NHS plans is not in the public interest?The government has denied my Freedom of Information requests. At this rate, we’ll know who is redesigning the NHS...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionKeir Starmer was right to stress his patriotism. Now Labour must turn the patriotic heat on the RightThe party must challenge the idea that those who govern us are patriots or serve the national interest
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Published in: Freedom of Information: FeatureFrom duck houses to nuclear weapons: what we know because of Freedom of Information lawOver the past 20 years, the ‘right to know’ legislation has helped expose many abuses of power, but now it’s under threat
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsBritish government slammed by regulator over ‘unacceptable’ FOI failuresStinging criticism of Gove’s Cabinet Office laid bare in new openDemocracy analysis. Tory MP calls for...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsMPs demand answers from Gove over Freedom of Information concernsSenior Tories to seek answers from Cabinet ministers, after newspaper editors unite behind openDemocracy’s call for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What is offensive is these governments’ housing arrangements for asylum seekersBrexit or not, Britain has a lot in common with the continent in terms of hostility to ‘outsiders’
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsFleet Street editors unite to demand ‘urgent’ action on Freedom of InformationGove under pressure as Guardian, Times, Telegraph, FT, Mirror and others sign openDemocracy letter calling for...
