openDemocracy

openDemocracy, 4 months ago to random

Torture victims being housed on Bibby Stockholm in possible breach of rules https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/bibby-stockholm-torture-victims-asylum-barge-home-office-leonard-farruku/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 4 months ago to random

Priest, 73, among climate activists made to wear GPS tags for years https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/climate-activists-gps-ankle-tag-just-stop-oil-tim-hewes-priest-midnight-mass/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 4 months ago to random

‘Hope this isn’t FOI-able?’ Scottish health chief defends deleting WhatsApps https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-inquiry-scotland-whatsapp-gregor-smith/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 4 months ago to random

Scottish government recommended deleting WhatsApp messages during pandemic https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-inquiry-scotland-nicola-sturgeon-whatsapp-messages-deleted/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 4 months ago to random

Exclusive: Tory MP earns £900 an hour from arms firm run by bribery suspect https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/mark-pritchard-mp-north-macedonia-ats-group-arms-weapons-serbia-bribery-arrest-shefshet-demirovski/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 4 months ago to Palestine

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

#Palestine #IsraelPalestineconflict #UKPolice #UKPolitics #Terror #counterterror #UKPol #CivilRights

openDemocracy, 4 months ago to random

Limits of devolution and austerity were ‘lethal’ for Scotland during pandemic https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/scotland-covid-inqiry-devolution-austerity-limit-government-response-holyrood-nicola-sturgeon/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 4 months ago to random

Baby hospitalised six times due to damp and mould in London flat https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/housing-private-rental-baby-hospitalised-damp-mould-lambeth-awaabs-law/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 4 months ago to random

Romany Gypsy woman takes government to court over ‘discriminatory’ policing https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/romany-gypsy-woman-high-court-policing-act-judicial-review/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 4 months ago to random

Met Police chief apologises for unlawful eviction of homeless people https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/met-police-mark-rowley-sorry-homeless-people-tents-camden-london/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 4 months ago to random

Revealed: Environment Agency invested £15m in ‘forever chemical’ firms https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/environment-agency-england-pension-fund-invested-pfas-forever-chemicals/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 4 months ago to random

Refugee ‘sanctuary’ councils invest pension funds in Israel-linked arms firms https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/palestine-solidarity-campaign-divest-council-pensions-israel-weapons/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 5 months ago to random

Nigeria’s most famous evangelical leader TB Joshua accused of sexual abuse https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/tb-joshua-nigeria-christian-evangelical-leader-accused-sexual-abuse/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 5 months ago to random

Home Office refuses to set up Ukraine-style visa scheme for Palestinians https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/palestine-family-visa-scheme-petition-home-office-gaza-ukraine/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 5 months ago to UKpolitics

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

#UkPolitics #UkPol #unhoused #refugees

openDemocracy, 5 months ago to random

Refugees left sleeping around train stations to meet Sunak’s backlog pledge https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/home-office-evictions-refugees-homelessness-rise-backlog/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 5 months ago to random

‘It breaks your spirit’: The climate protesters spending Christmas in jail https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/just-stop-oil-climate-protesters-christmas-prison-remand-sentence/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

openDemocracy, 5 months ago to climate

A Private airport rep worked with cops to threaten green campaigner with jail.

Police said Colin Shearn had asked too many questions and should be banned from Farnborough Airport’s public meetings

Read more here:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/colin-shearn-farnborough-airport-noise-group-anti-social-behaviour-injunction/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_content=airport_police_ASBI

#protest #privatejet #airports #ClimateCrisis #climate

openDemocracy, 5 months ago to journalism

REVEALED: The most influential UK think tanks.

We find dark money funded think tanks have more influence on social media than their transparent counterparts.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/who-funds-you-press-regulator-think-tanks-journalists-scrutinise-secret-donors-dark-money/

#transparency #darkmoney #thinktanks #lobbying #media

openDemocracy, 5 months ago to random

£281m of secret cash poured into UK universities

Read more 👇

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/uk-russell-group-universities-secret-donations-millions-lobbying/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_content=uni_darkmoney

#darkmoney #university #universities #uni #funding #lobbying #lobbyists

openDemocracy, 5 months ago to UKpolitics

The UK government’s technical ineptitude bodes badly in the data age. Here’s what the Online Safety Act could mean

Read more 👇

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/digitaliberties/online-safety-act-bill-uk-government-encryption-privacy-ofcom/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_content=online_safety

#onlinesafetybill #ukpolitics #ukpol

openDemocracy, 6 months ago to UKpolitics

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

#Ukpol #ukpolitics #israel #palestine #IsraelPalestineconflict

openDemocracy, 6 months ago to random

Travelling for six hours, spending thousands of pounds – to what lengths will bereaved families go for justice?

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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-inquiry-attending-every-day-covid-bereaved-boris-johnson-matt-hancock/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_content=covid_bereaved

#covidinquiry #matthancock #borisjohnson #covidbereaved

openDemocracy, 6 months ago to Dubai

OPINION: Holding #COP28 in #Dubai is a joke. Letting Charles open it is a bigger one

The #royal family is one the world’s biggest landowners. And #land ownership is at the root of the climate crisis

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/cop28-king-charles-iii-landowner-crown-un-climate-conference-dubai/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=charles_at_COP28

openDemocracy, 6 months ago to uk

#CovidInquiry 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

#Covid #UK #BorisJohnson #TradeUnions #UKPol #Politics #Health