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openDemocracy, to uk
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Rishi Sunak admits oil-funded think tank helped write anti-protest laws.

The PM confirmed Policy Exchange helped draft laws targeting climate activists, as first revealed by openDemocracy.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/rishi-sunak-right-wing-think-tank-anti-protest-laws-policy-exchange/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social

openDemocracy, to random
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BREAKING: Boris Johnson aide set key WhatsApp group to auto-delete ahead of Covid inquiry.

Martin Reynolds turned on the setting as plans for the official probe took shape, inquiry hears.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-inquiry-disappearing-whatsapp-martin-reynolds-boris-johnson/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=martin_reynolds_cvi

openDemocracy, to Palestine
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Listen to a secret recording of the interrogation here 👇

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/counter-terror-police-palestine-protests-israel-gaza-airport-recording/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=airportrecording

openDemocracy, to UKpolitics
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BREAKING: UK Government is being sued over its refusal to stop selling weapons to Israel despite evidence of civilian killings

Read more👇
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/al-haq-global-legal-action-network-uk-arms-licences-israel-palestine/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_content=gov_sued

openDemocracy, to random
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How Keir Starmer placed his political image over the lives of those in Gaza https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-keir-starmer-ceasefire-vote-gaza-hoyle-protect-image-endanger-mp-security/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, to random
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Tory minister Alister Jack admits deleting WhatsApps sent during pandemic https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-inquiry-alister-jack-delete-whatsapps-covid-inquiry-scotland-secretary/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, to UKpolitics
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Boris Johnson ignored the advice of scientists over covid messaging.

Read the full story 👇

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-stay-alert-scientists/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social+campaign&utm_content=johnson+ignored+sage

openDemocracy, to random
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Boris Johnson’s indecisiveness led to lockdown delays, Covid inquiry hears.

The prime minister’s ‘oscillating’ was partly to blame for a 10-day delay in announcing a national lockdown.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/boris-johnson-indecisive-covid-lockdown-delay-lee-cain-dominic-cummings-inquiry/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=indecisiveness_led_to_lockdown_delays

openDemocracy, to random
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JOB ALERT: We're looking for a new Editor-in-Chief

Please help us find the right person by sharing this widely.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/job-vacancy-editor-in-chief-2023/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social

openDemocracy, to UKpolitics
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Cash-strapped councils may seek to put disabled people in residential care to save costs, without regard for their wishes

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/disabled-rights-social-care-independent-living-budget-cuts-campaign/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Mastodon

openDemocracy, to uk
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Boris Johnson said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’

Former prime minister said he agreed that ‘we should let the old people get it’, Covid inquiry heard.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/boris-johnson-covid-natures-way-dealing-with-old-people-patrick-vallance-inquiry/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=natures_way

openDemocracy, to Health
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REVEALED: Sunak snubbed request to appoint more diverse Covid inquiry panel.

Groups representing minorities were told that having the inquiry overseen by more than one person would take too long.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-inquiry-cabinet-office-racism-heather-hallett/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=diverse_panel

openDemocracy, to privacy
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BREAKING: NHS Palantir data deal puts patient trust at risk, warn MP and privacy groups.

Patients won’t be able to opt out of sharing health records – despite MP warning that anonymising data is ‘impossible’

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-nhs-federated-data-platform-patient-trust-opt-out/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=Palantir_privacy

openDemocracy, to Health
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We've learned that there's a chance that the Health Minister Steve Barclay may be prepared to block a controversial contract with Palantir, that could put a huge trove of patient data in private hands.

You can help stop it by backing our campaign:

https://do.opendemocracy.net/palantir-health-data?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=palantir_petition

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openDemocracy, to climate
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BREAKING: Fossil fuel companies have ploughed more than £147m into British universities in seven years and been given “horrifying” influence over academic degree courses.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/shell-bp-equinor-totalenergies-oxford-cambridge-bristol-ucl-big-oil-gas-fossil-fuels-158m/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=big_oil_unis

openDemocracy, to uk
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latest: Boris Johnson said consulting with unions over return-to-work was ‘bollocks’

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-inquiry-boris-johnson-trade-unions-sajid-javid-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=boris_trade_unions

openDemocracy, to Economics
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The Bank of England handed out more than £25m in staff bonuses last year, while telling ordinary workers not to ask for more money.

Officials at the bank were awarded up to £22,500 on top of their regular salaries, despite its chief economist telling Brits to “accept” being poorer and governor Andrew Bailey calling for wage “restraint”.

Average pay at the bank is already £62,189, while Bailey is on almost half a million pounds a year.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/bank-of-england-awards-staff-25m-annual-performance-bonus/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social

openDemocracy, to UKpolitics
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Suella Braverman faces a fresh legal challenge over the government's treatment of asylum seekers held at a former RAF base that has been compared to “a military-style prison camp”.

Read more 👇

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/care4calais-legal-challenge-government-suella-braverman-asylum-seekers-raf-wethersfield-refugees-sue/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=social+campaign&utm_content=Braverman+c4c+legal.

openDemocracy, to climate
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I posed as a private jet customer. This is what I was told about emissions...

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/private-jet-firms-emissions-carbon-offsetting-possible/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=private_jets

openDemocracy, to UKpolitics
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US tech firm has been privately lobbying UK councils and police forces to scale up their surveillance using their AI-powered platform

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/real-time-crime-centre-police-surveillance-technology-fusus/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Mastodon

openDemocracy, to uk
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The government rejected calls from its own nature experts for a legally binding target to halt England’s catastrophic decline in wildlife, openDemocracy can reveal.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/natural-england-advice-sssis-decline-defra/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social

openDemocracy, to tech
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BREAKING: The former head of MI6 introduced Palantir to a top government official in the Cabinet Office a year before the US spy tech firm won a £27m contract with the department.

openDemocracy can reveal that Sir John Sawers set up a meeting between Palantir’s CEO and the Cabinet Office permanent secretary, John Manzoni, in 2019, when the company was pitching for new business.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-mi6-spymaster-cabinet-office-contract-brexit-john-sawers/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=MI6_Palantir

openDemocracy, to UKpolitics
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Refugees left sleeping around train stations to meet Sunak’s backlog pledge

Read the full story here 👇

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/home-office-evictions-refugees-homelessness-rise-backlog/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=asylumhomeless

openDemocracy, to uk
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EXCLUSIVE: Now the Government is demanding Boris Johnson's era messages back from it's own Covid-19 inquiry.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-inquiry-government-evidence-boris-johnson-whatsapps/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social

openDemocracy, to UKpolitics
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Voters find cars more annoying than traffic calming measures, new polling reveals.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/polling-ltns-ulez-cars-low-traffic-neighbourhoods-public-opinion-opinium/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Mastodon&utm_campaign=ULEZPolling

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