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Published in: ourEconomyTermite Capitalism: how private equity is undermining the economyFrom care homes to our high streets, private equity is corroding the foundations of society from the inside. It must...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationRevealed: Coronavirus self employment grant could cost you months of universal creditA flaw in the Universal Credit system could "clobber" people receiving the government's coronavirus self-employment...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe Trumpification of the Conservative partyJohnson and Cummings are waging information war on the UK.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNumber 10 must lift briefing ban on openDemocracy, says European press freedom watchdogGovernment accused of attempting to “isolate and punish critical coverage” by boycotting media outlets.
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Published in: HomeBoris Johnson may learn that wars don’t always make leaders popularThe British prime minister wants to be a Churchill but is looking more like George W. Bush.
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe Cummings-Johnson sagaIs there an unhealthy emotional dependency inside Downing Street that threatens our democracy?
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Published in: openDemocracyUK“The government gives me £35 a week to buy food… During the lockdown, my kids do not receive free school meals”As a refugee and single mother, lockdown in the UK is hard. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionDowning Street condemned over ‘vindictive’ treatment of openDemocracyNumber 10’s ban on openDemocracy asking questions at COVID-19 briefings part of a “Trumpian” attack on press...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Investigation‘Not like Dominic Cummings!’ Boris Johnson’s dad and the 300-mile lockdown laptop tripStanley Johnson’s computer wasn’t working – so a University of Buckingham technician and his young son drove 150...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionCummings is caught in the bomb he placed under British politicsThe government tried to shirk responsibility for their pandemic failures by making it a story about individual blame.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionHow a programme for public ownership can bridge the political divideThere have been dramatic swings lately in Britain's politics of public services. The future holds opportunities.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI met Keir Starmer’s donkeys – and they told me something about himThe Mail on Sunday dug for dirt on the new Labour leader. They found something very different.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightCountering the radical right, back to basicsIf you think the answer to the rise in the radical right threat lies in counter-terrorism and/or counter-extremism...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe nature of the threat: culpable ignorance and the humiliation of the Johnson Government in the COVID crisisLawrence Freedman’s preliminary account of scientific advice and political judgement hitherto in UK-policymaking...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionWhy are British politicians so scared of transparency?From scientific advice and procurement contracts to Freedom of Information requests, our government has drastically...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionCaring about social care“I lived in Leicester and if you are a woman and you want a job there, the only jobs available are in care work. ”
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionPeter Oborne shortlisted for Orwell prize – after other papers rejected himHis forensic attacks on Brexit and Boris Johnson were turned down by bigger UK media outlets. So openDemocracy stepped up.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaUnderground Botox: what is essential and what is not during a global pandemic?COVID-19 might have changed people’s perception of what is considered essential, but the perception of necessities...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionPandemic politics, oligarchic times and the idiotic subject of ‘freedom’To radically transform our way of life we need to construct the public spaces at all levels in order to have a...
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Published in: HomeDowning Street has banned me from asking questions. Why?I’ve been a lobby journalist for decades – but now I've been shut out by No. 10. What are Boris Johnson and Dominic...
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