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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The next one hundred years – a salute for Agnes HellerIt is quite wrong to see authoritarianism as harking back to the past. Its threat is built into the times we live in.
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Published in: openIndiaPolitical triplets of New DemocracyThe three leaders play stellar roles in an absurd political play with a gigantic setting in which things were never...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat we could learn from lawyers - and from China - about protecting the planetJames Thornton of ClientEarth has fought court cases to challenge government inaction on climate, environment and...
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Published in: ourNHSA war of attrition against hospital services in South Tyneside and across the countryWill Boris Johnson’s promises of NHS cash mean anything? Or will children's and other hospital services continue to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSecurity wins the day over privacy: High Court rules Snoopers’ Charter is not a breach of human rightsA worrying judgement suggests "safeguards" are enough to allow mass surveillance, even if they're not being adhered to.
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Published in: HomeWhy Iran has a speedboat swarm that’s punching above its weightIn the 1980s Iran learned its frigates were no match for the US Navy. But its many small, nimble attack craft can...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGreens could now benefit from more radical co-operation with other partiesThe Brecon and Radnorshire deal has worked, but if the Greens want to get in a position to avert climate disaster,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJohnson’s strength is his divided opposition – is Labour brave enough to respond?With Boris Johnson vocally setting up 'the people vs parliamentary elites' and promising a public spending splurge,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK9 reasons the International Development Sector needs to get political, address power relations, and adopt a transformative agendaThe Sustainable Development Goals are sending out distress signals. They won’t eradicate global poverty whilst...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKInvisible in plain sight: fighting loneliness in the homeless communityHave a chat with someone on the streets and you may help and, perhaps, come away with an important story. This is Rupi’s.
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsMP demands investigation into Farage’s US, dark money pro-Brexit campaign groupStark warning of US-style Super PACs arriving in UK as Brexit Party leader launches dark-money-funded campaign group...
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Published in: openJusticeLegal aid mattersLegal aid is 70 years old today. We need to celebrate it's past and campaign for it's future.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKConflict reporting – are injuries no longer news?The true impact of war – particularly on people injured by explosive weapons – is being obscured by increasingly...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWelcome to Boris Johnson’s government of all the lobbyistsThe prime minister’s new team has strong links to leading corporate lobbyists – they are representing the ultra-rich...
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Published in: ourEconomyA Transatlantic Proposal for a People-Powered Green New DealTackling the climate crisis requires public ownership of the energy sector in both the US and UK.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow to respond to Boris Johnson – and how not toWe keep losing – because we keep reacting in the same way. No more!
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Published in: ourEconomyIn the age of extinction, who is extreme? A response to Policy ExchangeExtinction Rebellion’s program is coherent and necessary, we should defend it from the right-wing think tank's attacks.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“We wargamed the last days of Brexit. Here’s what we found out”What can be learned about winners and losers from running a simulation of Brexit as a wargame?
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightWhy the radical right relishes Boris Johnson as prime ministerJohnson’s success in the Conservative leadership election is based upon undeliverable or potentially disastrous...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: the files that expose ERG as a militant “party within a party”Documents released following openDemocracy transparency victory reveal European Research Group’s “highly partial”...
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