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Published in: ourEconomySeven ideas for the G7The gathering of world leaders in France this week offers an opportunity to address the existential issues of our time.
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Published in: 50.50Anti-LGBTIQ ‘conversion therapy’ occurs worldwide, new study revealsActivities to ‘cure’ LGBTIQ people are widespread globally, says report, driven by ultra-religious groups and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhen will progressive politics get serious?The choice currently seems to be either Corbynism that can’t get us out of this mess, or the vapid centrism that...
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Published in: ourEconomy"It's time to end the gentleman’s agreement" – an open letter to the IMFOver 100 organisations and academics sign a letter demanding a fair selection process for the next IMF managing director.
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Published in: openMedia“Diversity: The BBC may fool itself but it won’t fool the Lords”Problems arising from the BBC’s lack of diversity among its programme-makers remain, despite all the BBC initiatives...
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Published in: HomeBritish navy goes all in with Trump against IranAre Boris and Donald the new Blair and Bush? Movements of the UK’s handful of destroyers suggest they might be.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUK rape survivors face ‘digital strip searches’ and other deterrents to justiceThe proportion of reported rapes that end in conviction is shockingly low – and new forms of obstacles to justice...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMy home, your home – the volunteers welcoming migrants into their homes and communitiesA global trend of criminalising those who help migrants is underway – but less spectacular acts of defiance are also...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Mask of AnarchyWritten on the occasion of the Peterloo massacre at Manchester, which took place two hundred years ago.
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Published in: ourEconomyDevolution and the Green New DealDecarbonisation will require intervention at all levels of government – from London to Edinburgh and beyond.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPeterloo led eventually to electoral democracy – but there’s one big bit of unfinished businessNew evidence shows that it’s the Right that tend to benefit from the UK's unequal electoral system. The Left is...
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Published in: ourEconomyNew series: preparing for the next crisisIn 2007 the left was not prepared to respond to the crisis. This time it must be different.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Telegraph’s Brexit poll is bogus, but broadcasters seem not to have noticedPollsters and broadcasters mustn’t allow themselves to become accomplices to propaganda selling a false version of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The broken mirror: intersectionality and the loss of the universalThe ‘disarticulation’ of class results in the loss of the possibility of a structural and therefore truly radical...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAusterity has made people less prepared for a no-deal BrexitThe government says it's preparing to crash out of the EU. But ten years of spending cuts have made the people of...
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Published in: HomeThe shadow war on terror is making its enemies strongerFew in the west know about the war fought on their behalf in Syria and Iraq. But they may come to know the rage that...
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Published in: Shine A LightWhen the state says it’s all right to hurt a childUK government policy allows adults to deliberately inflict pain on a child in certain circumstances. For Adam...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightGoing back somewhere: nostalgia and the radical rightThe electorate are engaged at some level in a fictive transaction, where we know that what we intend to buy is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain after Brexit: welcome to the vulture restaurantUS business will asset-strip the UK, but that’s not all: the Pentagon will find the little-known fragments of the...
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Published in: HomeTrump and Johnson: two sides of the same coinIt will no longer suffice to be shocked and numbed by the outrageousness of these two men’s words.
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