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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationTory donor Lord Ashcroft’s outsourcing firm lands £350m vaccination contract
Medacs Healthcare is part of a group whose largest shareholder is Michael Ashcroft – who has given millions to the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMoving to the right could ‘blow up in Labour’s face’, warns Diane Abbott
During an openDemocracy debate last week, the former shadow home secretary challenged the idea that the UK’s Labour...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The state of trade unions in the UK
There was never a better time to join a union, organise and fight for a fairer, greener world.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Manchester's imaginary Polynesian
The personal, historical and mythical lives of James Wharram: review of a rare autobiography.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionMorals for Remainers: adversaries and alliances
What path should pro-European UK democrats pursue in 2021?
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Published in: 50.50Women in UK face rising online abuse from co-workers, survey says
Data collected by charity suggests upsurge in sexual harassment faced by women working from home during the COVID-19...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBoris Johnson is no liberal
Those saying that what’s happening in the US couldn’t happen here should take a look at our prime minister’s record.
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismA world to win and a planet to save
Left populism and socialist strategy under Corbyn – how could this prepare us for the Green New Deal? In response to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationGuernsey: Searching for truth in a tax haven election
Back on my Channel Island home during the pandemic, researching a secretive taxpayer investment made me realise just...
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Published in: HomeThe year in images: from war in the Caucasus to US street protests
In 2020, openDemocracy’s reporters captured how the pandemic transformed the lives of asylum seekers and the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionParliament’s security experts slate British government pandemic planning
A high-level committee “notes a striking absence of leadership of the UK’s biological security”. So why haven’t you...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionControversial ‘spy tech’ firm Palantir lands £23m NHS data deal
Exclusive: UK government sneaks through new COVID data contract, despite legal challenges.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Knowing your place
Thinking of some lines of poetry by Derek Mahon.
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionThe terrifying truth about those deciding the future of the NHS
The Tories are using the pandemic to reshape our health service – and so it’s up to us to protect our access to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionNo-deal Brexit would be a boon for neoliberals
No deal would imperil businesses. The Conservative Party's support for it reveals where their true loyalties lie.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain’s struggling mental health services are on the brink of a new crisis
As waiting lists grow in the wake of the pandemic, communities in England and Wales are being forced to bridge the...
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Published in: Home: OpinionOne more hire won’t fix your diversity problem
After Black Lives Matter, companies promised to better represent the communities they serve. Here’s how to avoid it...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘The Magpie Inquiry’: institutional racism at work – lessons from the past
A play about a London Community Alarm Service in fourteen scenes.
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Published in: Home: OpinionJohn le Carré was a 21st-century writer
On his death, the establishment is patronising England's great novelist as a Cold War figure, rather than...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionCan we rely on pension funds to finance the green transition?
The risks and costs associated with the transition to an environmentally sustainable economy are best borne by the...