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Published in: 50.50: FeatureThe mental health crisis in women’s prisons
Experts slam the government’s £1.5m plan to create more jail places in England as prisoners’ self-harm rates soar
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Published in: Home: NewsPrisoners still being locked up for 23 hours a day despite record self-harm
Prisoners are spending long hours in overcrowded cells without any rehabilitation activities, damning new reports warn
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhere ‘levelling up’ funds go doesn’t matter. They aren’t supposed to work
OPINION: Meaningful change on inequality would require real powers for local authorities. Anything else is just noise
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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisCan the UK survive Westminster’s attack on trans rights in Scotland?
LGBTIQ activists across the UK are rethinking their place in the union after Sunak blocked new Scottish legislation
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Published in: Home: OpinionDroughts and wildfires prove we need to end private land ownership
We can’t accept an annual lurch from droughts to floods – we must take our land back from the aristocracy
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Published in: Home: FeatureLeft in the dark: The families struggling to survive fuel poverty
In this south Wales community, parents skip meals, kids wear coats to bed, and pensioners shower at the local pool
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Published in: Home: OpinionIt’s not the break-up of Britain… yet
Election results show that the ground is shifting in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But the future of the UK...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhile ‘beergate’ dominates headlines, UK politics quietly changes forever
The pundits of London’s metropolitan media are focused on Keir Starmer’s curry. But they’re all missing the bigger story
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsPolicing bill: MPs have one last chance to protect the right to protest
Protesters are urging MPs to ‘use their privilege for power’ next week when the notorious bill returns to the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationFamilies’ plea over ‘barbaric’ indefinite prison sentences for minor crimes
Exclusive: Thousands left in English and Welsh prisons without release dates, despite controversial indefinite...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: FeatureUK Traveller communities fear ‘cultural annihilation’ over upcoming trespass laws
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people face imprisonment or hefty fines under new England and Wales Police Bill that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionAs a former officer, I'm horrified by England and Wales’s Police Bill
The bill could spell the end of policing by consent – and force police leaders to decide whether to use draconian...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe Welsh government is escaping scrutiny over COVID-19
A landmark report showed Westminster’s terrible mistakes in the pandemic. But Wales made its own mistakes, too
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Published in: Live discussionsIs Britain breaking up?
With Scotland voting on Thursday in an election that could lead to a second independence referendum and increased...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMaking hope possible in Wales: interview with Plaid Cymru leadership candidates
openDemocracy interviews the three candidates for leader of Plaid Cymru about the future of Wales and the UK.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU as Britain’s constitutional stabiliser?
More than it thinks, Britain may need its membership in the EU for the preservation of its national integrity and of...
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Published in: HomeMeeting Lofa
“In the Kenyan camp there are second generation and third generation refugees,” I said, “Can you imagine somebody...
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Published in: HomeParticipation and foresight: putting people at the heart of the future
The demise of the Commission at the stroke of a Minister’s pen demonstrated the fragility of such bodies. So Welsh...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Mind your language
As Marine Le Pen calls on French citizens to renounce dual citizenship in France’s presidential election campaign,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKForward Wales: five ways Welsh progressives need to take back control
The fallout from Brexit is an existential crisis for the future of devolution and Wales’ so-called ‘progressive’ identity.