Labour is headed for electoral triumph – then woe in government (www.opendemocracy.net)
The party may have a 30-point lead in the polls, but its lack of real offering to voters will soon cause problems - Paul Rogers
Dirty, dangerous, and failing: Crisis in UK prisons revealed | openDemocracy (www.opendemocracy.net)
There’s going to be an Urgent Question on the prisons crisis after PMQs today, so I thought I’d share this for some helpful background info.
Anarchism, Russian-style (from 2015) (www.opendemocracy.net)
Where Labour and the Tories got their money from in 2023 (www.opendemocracy.net)
All parties declared more than £93m in total compared with £52m in the previous year....
Nigerian students who fled Ukraine told to leave Europe | openDemocracy (www.opendemocracy.net)
Councils going bankrupt: How the Tories left British councils on their knees | openDemocracy (www.opendemocracy.net)
Wealthy donors including gambling tycoons fund MPs’ staff | openDemocracy (www.opendemocracy.net)
Crotone disaster a year on: EU still making same mistakes (www.opendemocracy.net)
Suicides in Calais: a border designed to create despair (www.opendemocracy.net)
Pushed past their limits, these migrants took their own lives at the border between the UK, France and Belgium
Uni ‘fuelled’ abuse of Black colleague who condemned Israel (www.opendemocracy.net)
Tory MP paid £900 an hour by bribery suspect’s weapons firm (www.opendemocracy.net)
Tory MP paid £900 an hour by bribery suspect’s weapons firm (www.opendemocracy.net)
Home Office refuses to set up visa scheme for Palestinians (www.opendemocracy.net)
Peruvian activists risk lives to help women access abortion (www.opendemocracy.net)
The country’s near-total abortion ban is forcing women and girls to turn to the black market for terminations
Peruvian activists risk lives to help women access abortion (www.opendemocracy.net)
The country’s near-total abortion ban is forcing women and girls to turn to the black market for terminations
RSA launches probe into pro-Israel bash that sparked walkout (www.opendemocracy.net)
The Royal Society of Arts claims it was not made aware of the event’s ‘geopolitically sensitive’ nature
RSA launches probe into pro-Israel bash that sparked walkout (www.opendemocracy.net)
The Royal Society of Arts claims it was not made aware of the event’s ‘geopolitically sensitive’ nature
RSA launches probe into pro-Israel bash that sparked walkout (www.opendemocracy.net)
The Royal Society of Arts claims it was not made aware of the event’s ‘geopolitically sensitive’ nature
Solving the climate crisis means ending our addiction to economic growth (www.opendemocracy.net)
Non-profit rebranding Jesus for Gen Z also funds hate group (www.opendemocracy.net)
A US non-profit attempting to rebrand Jesus for Gen Z is also the main funder of a designated hate group opposing abortion and LGBTIQ rights, openDemocracy can reveal....
Revealed: How oil firms infiltrated British universities (www.opendemocracy.net)
Fossil fuel companies have ploughed more than £147m into British universities in seven years and been given “horrifying” influence over academic degree courses....
Facebook workers in Kenya ‘not paid for six months’ (www.opendemocracy.net)
‘Hard to pick a day when Covid rules were followed’ in No.10: Senior figures in Downing Street presided over a toxic ‘macho’ culture that sidelined women, Helen MacNamara says (www.opendemocracy.net)
According to Helen MacNamara, the government’s deputy cabinet secretary until 2021, key figures in Whitehall presided over an environment in which junior women were “talked over or ignored”....
Covid bereaved families: Revelations even worse than feared, says the 'Bereaved Families for Justice Group' (www.opendemocracy.net)
“When you see these figures had such disregard for each other, you can only imagine the disregard they had for us,” writes Matt Fowler, co-founder Bereaved Families for Justice Group’....
Key Boris Johnson aide set key WhatsApp group to auto-delete (www.opendemocracy.net)
The WhatsApp group, called ‘PM Updates’, contained Boris Johnson’s closest advisers and discussions within the group touched on key Covid policies – such as shielding the clinically vulnerable, and the Department of Health and Social Care’s plans for responding to the pandemic....
