Northern Irish confidence is in short supply as political deadlock continues and the DUP flirt with No Deal and non-existent alternatives.
Casual racism, implicit bias and jobs offered over beer. Two humanitarian workers reveal the ugly side of the international aid sector.
The political right is not only cracking down on academic freedoms, but has started simultaneously to become a fierce advocate of an aggressively anti-intellectual freedom of speech.
UK charities, parliamentarians and bereaved families unite to close child prisons. Inspection reports call all such institutions unsafe.
What can the UK learn from those fighting the far right across Europe? Take history seriously
There is an alternative way of "letting the people decide" on an issue where MPs seem incapable of agreeing a coherent policy. The Greeks had a word for it: democracy.
The students that the government is hoping to dissuade from studying in France are the young people of its former colonies. How does this square with ‘patriotism as openness’?
UK’s support for Bahrain’s sham-elections emboldens the Gulf nation to continue intensifying its crackdown on civil rights with impunity.
For the past two years openDemocracy has been tracking down the secretive, wealthy donors trying to influence British politics unseen.
English Brexit voters may have voted not so much for the return of Empire, but for greater attention to England as the only stateless nation in the UK.
Let us have an end to fighting the referendum campaign ad infinitum and ad nauseam. Now is the time to get real.
