openDemocracy

openDemocracy, 3 days ago to random

Yes, HMP Wandsworth is dangerous – most prisons in England and Wales are https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/wandsworth-tip-iceberg-poor-prison-conditions-england-wales-unsafe-unhygienic/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 11 days ago to random

Dirty, dangerous, and failing: Crisis in British prisons revealed https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/prisons-most-shameful-single-issue-britain-analysis-inmate-surveys-inspector/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 14 days ago to random

You can stop the Rwanda raids. Here’s how https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rwanda-refugee-raids-hostile-environment/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 16 days ago to random

Revealed: ‘Wild West’ for personal data undermines UK human rights https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/freedom-of-information/personal-data-sar-request-undermines-basic-legal-human-rights/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 17 days ago to random

openDemocracy South American reporter wins prestigious Uruguay press award https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/angelina-de-los-santos-wins-marcelo-jelen-press-award-journalism-uruguay-missing-women-police-failures-trafficking/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 17 days ago to random

UK professor condemns own university over collaboration with oil giant https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/southampton-university-exxon-oil-giant-partnership-ian-williams-professor-condemn/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 22 days ago to random

Nigerian woman faces jail for giving tomato paste bad review on Facebook https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/chioma-okoli-facebook-erisco-tomato-paste-eric-umeofia/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 23 days ago to random

Threat of Israel-Iran war fades – but danger is unchanged for Gazans https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-iran-war-threat-fade-gaza-palestine-danger-risk-death-strikes-idf/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 1 month ago to random

Government admits it broke law to allow gamebird shooting https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-government-broke-law-over-gamebird-licences-wildlife-conservation-therese-coffey-richard-benyon/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 1 month ago to random

Trump has just hung an albatross around his neck – abortion https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/chrissy-stroop-donald-trump-republican-party-abortion-us-election/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 1 month ago to random

Women fight back as Milei’s government tries to starve their soup kitchens https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/women-argentina-food-crisis-hunger-soup-kitchens-cook-common-pots-milei/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 1 month ago to random

A dying baby, a Trump tweet: Inside network setting global right-wing agenda https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/inside-the-network-setting-global-right-wing-agenda/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 1 month ago to random

Republicans’ anti-LGBTQ vitriol is working – don’t take our rights for granted https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/republicans-donald-trump-election-immgiration-anti-lgbtq/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 1 month ago to random

Jet-setters, partygoers and double-jobbers: Who’s given what to MPs in 2024 https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/mps-register-financial-interests-donations-gifts-declarations-labour-conservative-2024/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 2 months ago to Israel

Amnesty International says Rishi Sunak must review donations from JCB and its directors after our findings

Read more here:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/conservative-party-jcb-donations-israel-settlements-palestine-west-bank/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=JCB #Israel #Palestine #IsraelPalestineconflict #UKPol #UKPolitics #Conservatives #ConservativeParty #Donations #Lobbying

openDemocracy, 2 months ago to random

I’m an NHS children’s doctor. Our housing system is driving a national health emergency https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-doctor-uk-poor-housing-make-children-sick-private-rent-mould-damp/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 2 months ago to random

How the UK government rebranded protest as extremism https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-palestine-protesters-extremism-islamophobia-gove-makram-ali/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 2 months ago to LGBTQ

Teachers and LGBTQ+ groups urge public to respond to consultation, which closes tomorrow

Read the full story 👇

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/gender-questioning-children-consultation-respond-discrimination-trans-students/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=transguidance

#LGBTQ #UKPol #UKPolitics #Trans #Transrights

openDemocracy, 2 months ago to random

Emily Thornberry: Labour’s pre-election meetings with lobbyists to stay secret https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-lobbying-freedom-of-information-emily-thornberry/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 2 months ago to UKpolitics

How the Tories drove Britain’s local services into bankruptcy.

Councils provide social care, schools and housing. And half of them are about to run out of money

Read the full piece here:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/council-cuts-austerity-tories-bankrupt-youth-services-sure-start-school-nurses/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=toriesbankrucy

#UKPolitics #UKPol #tories #Conservatives #LocalCouncils #Councils #LocalServices #socialcare #schools #housing

openDemocracy, 2 months ago to random

Wales’ scientific advisers ‘surprised’ Boris Johnson didn’t lock down earlier https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-inquiry-wales-scientists-lockdown-earlier/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 2 months ago to random

Home Office has lost track of 700 Afghans it brought to the UK https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/home-office-afghan-resettlement-scheme-windrush-david-neal/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 2 months ago to random

How the Tories drove Britain’s local services into bankruptcy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/council-cuts-austerity-tories-bankrupt-youth-services-sure-start-school-nurses/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 2 months ago to random

‘Utterly shameful’: Suspended Labour politician slams Starmer’s Gaza stance https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-gaza-ceasefire-suspended-councillors-martin-abrams/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 2 months ago to random

Welsh government to face questions over delay bringing in Covid restrictions https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-inquiry-wales-cymru-chaos-bereaved-families/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS