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Published in: 50.5010 alternatives to the UK government’s racism report
Here’s a reading list of alternatives to the controversial Sewell report. Hint: they do reveal institutional racism...
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Published in: ourEconomy: ReviewHow the story of modern Scotland is the story of Scottish coal
In compelling new book ‘Coal Country’, Ewan Gibbs explores how Scotland’s lost coalfields transformed the nation’s...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: News‘Revolving door’ watchdog has met only once since Johnson’s election win
Exclusive: UK government accused of transparency failings amid growing concerns over ties between business and...
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Published in: ourEconomy: ExplainerIn 2008, we bailed out the banks. In 2021, we need to bail out the planet
The COVID-19 pandemic is not a random event. It is a symptom of a global economic system that is destroying the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisAnti-East Asian racism rose under COVID – but it has a long, grim history
Growing up in south-east London, one of my earliest memories was being assaulted – hit in the jaw and with racist...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionMuted and invisible: Why justice online is justice denied
Virtual hearings are inherently unfair, yet the government wants them to be the new normal post-pandemic
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Published in: HomeWhat is misogyny? An update
'What is really remarkable about this horrible death is the outpouring of sympathetic grief across the nation in response.'
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisThe EU and UK are releasing the money of deposed dictators
Why is the EU lifting sanctions on politicians accused of corruption in Egypt, Tunisia and Ukraine, when so little...
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Published in: HomeJust the beginning of a dynamic healthcare experience
" The Trust’s board... had not anticipated mobilisation in defence of non-marketable democracy at a level that would...
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Published in: ourEconomy: FeatureThe UK’s democratic deficit is escalating the climate crisis
In this long read, the direct cause of the current economic and environmental threats is shown to have been laid...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe UK needs to build a memorial for the people we enslaved
The revamp of Trafalgar Square, which is home to a statue of one of the slave trade’s founding fathers, offers the...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsMichael Gove told to ‘come clean’ over whether he misled Parliament
Exclusive: Months after resignation of UK's ethics adviser – responsible for publishing ministers' interests –...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: FeatureIslands of deterrence: Britain’s long history of banishing ‘undesirables’
The UK Home Office's proposals for an overseas immigration processing centre are nothing new
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: News‘Worse than a crime’: Johnson cutting aid to ‘pander’ to Red Wall, says Tory MP
Decision to slash aid to poorest countries made for ‘cultural reasons’ not economic ones, says former international...
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisBack to the future: is Brexit Britain preparing to unleash Big Finance?
As powers move from Brussels to London, many fear the UK is unlearning crucial lessons from the global financial crisis.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsWe can’t put internet anonymity in the box marked ‘too hard to solve’
Forthcoming internet legislation ignores anonymity, but this fudge benefits only the social media platforms
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionAnti-trans activism by some UK queer people is shocking and damaging
The alarming wave of anti-trans activism in the West threatens to undermine rights in less privileged parts of the world
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionWe’ve won our lawsuit over Matt Hancock’s £23m NHS data deal with Palantir
And here’s what needs to happen now
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionPriti Patel’s war on the UK’s last nomads
With its new police bill, the government is trying to criminalise Gypsies and Travellers’ very way of life
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisWhy the UK’s system of government is vastly superior to the European Union
British governments can survive only if they enjoy a majority in the Commons. In the EU, by contrast, executives are...