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The government knows the real climate threat. Why is it hiding it?

For months, ministers have refused to publish a report on how climate crisis will affect the UK. Burnham must release it

By Paul Rogers

/ 17 Jul 2026

The government knows the real climate threat. Why is it hiding it?

AI needs human hands. Indian workers fought back

In Delhi’s factories, labourers are resisting efforts to train their robot replacements on the most human of actions

By Anumeha Yadav

/ 17 Jul 2026

AI needs human hands. Indian workers fought back

Dr Julia Minson on how to disagree better, receptiveness and changing her mind on Transitions for minors

Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Pocket Casts Host Alex Chesterfield and co-hosts Ali Goldsworthy and Laura Osborne interview Julia Minson, a researcher on disagreement, about

By The Depolarization Project

/ 16 Jul 2026

You cannot demand integration while building an asylum system on insecurity

Burnham’s vote for immigration reforms was worrying – his government must not push ahead with inherited asylum plans

By Amina Khanom

/ 15 Jul 2026

You cannot demand integration while building an asylum system on insecurity

More than 100 elderly women killed by men since 2020

An investigation by openDemocracy reveals the extent of femicide where the victims are aged over-66

By Sian Norris

/ 15 Jul 2026

More than 100 elderly women killed by men since 2020

How Belgian campaigners forced a de facto arms embargo on Israel

A peace activist on how civil society used research, public pressure and the courts to stop military shipments through Antwerp

By Jo Dirix

/ 13 Jul 2026

How Belgian campaigners forced a de facto arms embargo on Israel

Inside Farage’s Montenegro back-office

openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 11 July 2026

By openDemocracy

/ 11 Jul 2026

Fujimorismo returns to Peru’s presidential palace

Keiko Fujimori’s presidency will put Peru’s fragile democracy to the test

By Dacil Lanza

/ 9 Jul 2026

Fujimorismo returns to Peru’s presidential palace

Inside Reform and George Cottrell’s world in Montenegro

Why are some of Britain’s most controversial Reform-linked figures all operating out of a grubby office in a town of 11,000 people in the Balkans?

By Sian Norris

/ 9 Jul 2026

Inside Reform and George Cottrell’s world in Montenegro

How students got universities to divest from the border industry

People & Planet turned universities’ financial links to detention, deportation and surveillance companies into a target students could organise against

By Nandini Naira Archer

/ 8 Jul 2026