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Published in: openJustice"Enough is enough": using the law to fight for people with unmet social care needsIn the first podcast of our series, we talk to Mencap who are using the law to help people with learning...
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Published in: openJustice: OpinionHow the UK government is breaking the lawThere appears to be an epidemic of unlawful practices from local and central government. The most vulnerable are...
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Published in: 50.50Special report: FGM survivors more visible in UK statistics, and activism“I really hope that no one has to go through that kind of pain,” says one survivor, as data reveals 22,000...
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Published in: ourEconomy: Opinion21st century human rights are technological, environmental and co-operativeJust like the software in our phones, our traditional human rights must constantly be updated to keep pace with modern times.
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Published in: openJustice: Investigation‘I’ve been neglected’: One man and the social care crisisAll but abandoned by the state, Shairaz Khan, who has learning difficulties, is at the hard end of a decade of funding cuts.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy I can’t wait to cast my first ever vote – and how to help others do the sameYoung people who've grown up in an age of austerity need something to hope for. A first time voter explains why...
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Published in: ourEconomy"The UN is being turned into a public-private partnership": An interview with Harris Gleckman
Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionProtecting Our Common Home: A Green New Deal for ScotlandScotland has the opportunity to be a world leader on solving the most pressing issue of our time. Here's how it can be done.
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Published in: ourBeeb: OpinionThe BBC has failed on diversity: why were the Lords too timid to say so?A House of Lords committee ignores great proposals from Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder while refusing to judge whether...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionBread, Roses and Broadband too?Publicly owned fibre networks don’t just mean free WiFi. From energy grids to smart transport, they will be the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationViolence-glorifying page runs under-the-radar anti-Corbyn Facebook adFacebook ad library has no record of anti-Corbyn ad paid for by a page that declares itself ‘comfortable with...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionLabour’s plans for free broadband are radical – but so are the tax reforms that fund itThe party wants to get rid of the system which allows companies to slash their tax bills using clever accounting games.
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Published in: ourEconomy: Opinion‘Broadband communism’? Outside the UK, public broadband is a raving successAround the world governments are taking the lead developing digital infrastructure. Nowhere is this more evident...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionRentier Capitalism is breeding neo-fascism. Vote wisely!Faced with a crisis of awesome proportions, we must develop a strategy for re-embedding the economy in society.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHelp us keep this election honestWe at openDemocracy need your help to monitor the general election campaign in key constituencies.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe anti-Labour plot to polarise Hindus over KashmirA campaign for the hearts and minds of British Hindus is pushing them to the Tories – and it’s dividing British...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Revisiting the Brandenburg Gate"If I had been planning last weekend¹s celebration, I would have tried in some way to capture that hard won freedom...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionHow has Jeremy Corbyn allowed so many to be so hurt by anti-Semitism?When it comes to Hamas, Hezbollah – and LGBT+ rights – Corbyn needs to think more about human rights and less about...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe Right does solidarity whilst Labour remains stubbornly ‘anti-social’Labour could this week stand aside in a Green target seat or two, as the Greens have in two key Labour targets...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The 1989 revolutions and the Peace Movement“We saw ourselves as an anti-Cold War movement and not just an anti-nuclear movement. We wanted to end the division...
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