openDemocracy's investigations editor talks about how Ireland has changed since he left as a young man, and why we need to dig into unaccountable funding in politics.
TransUnion was commissioned to verify people’s identity so they can receive a home testing kit after developing coronavirus symptoms. So why are people slipping through the net?
Details of crucial vaccine trials should be made public, and guarantee no profiteering in future. Current reassurances don't go far enough, especially if the virus becomes endemic or needs repeat doses.
The pandemic has shown the pitfalls of centralised power, and also the willingness of local people to participate through mutual aid. Greater participatory democracy and a standing citizens’ assembly chosen by sortition, are a way forward for local government, argues a new report.
To address the complex threats and opportunities of the 21st century needs a change of mindset and daily political practice – away from the mindset of the machine and the engineer and towards the mindset of the garden and the gardener.
