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Published in: Home: NewsTories impose ‘tax on democracy’ with fee to cover party conference
Conservatives’ £125 charge to attend 2022 conference comes after series of assaults on press freedom by government
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy Stranger Things is the dystopia millennials and Gen Z deserve
Netflix’s hit series is classic portal fiction, but the monsters in its ‘Upside Down’ fit our troubled times
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Published in: oDR: OpinionRussia’s repressed independent media is vital to building a post-Putin era
Almost all Russian journalists have been forced into exile amid a state crackdown. But there is some cause for hope
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Published in: Home: OpinionI reported on Thatcher-era strikes. Here’s what today’s coverage is missing
The demise of industrial correspondents allows the Tory press to deliver outlandish, make-believe scare stories
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Published in: Home: OpinionIt’s great to see Mick Lynch calling out the media’s anti-union bullshit
Billionaires control our politics and our press, yet we’re told unions are the real enemy of the British worker
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionThree clear reasons to boycott the upcoming Hogwarts Legacy video game
As well as its link to JK Rowling, the game is accused of antisemitism and was developed by a Gamergate defender
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Published in: Home: OpinionAssange extradition is just latest in UK’s crackdown on the free press
Journalism is under attack – yet MPs will line up on Tuesday to pay lip service to ‘World Press Freedom Day’
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionColombia faces moment of reckoning as tense election awaits
Populist outlier Rodolfo Hernández will challenge the leftist candidate Gustavo Petro in Sunday's presidential vote
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Published in: Home: News‘Cadwalladr’s legal ordeal shows UK is failing to protect journalists’
Arron Banks may have lost his case, but it’s a dark day for press freedom, campaigners warn
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: What Priti Patel spent selling Rwanda deportations to the public
Tens of thousands of pounds were spent on ads to be shown by Facebook and Instagram
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Published in: Home: OpinionIs there any real benefit to city status? Luckily for Reading, probably not
The town (sorry) has once again had its bid to become a city rejected, this time in a competition for the jubilee
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Published in: Home: OpinionFar-right conspiracy theories are now embedded in the UK mainstream
And no wonder, when British journalists promote conspiracy theories and government politicians embrace extremist rhetoric
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Published in: Home: OpinionThank you, Derry Girls, for telling the story of my complicated adolescence
Like the Derry Girls, I was 18 when I voted for the Good Friday Agreement. The show perfectly captured the darkness,...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhile ‘beergate’ dominates headlines, UK politics quietly changes forever
The pundits of London’s metropolitan media are focused on Keir Starmer’s curry. But they’re all missing the bigger story
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionI was a child of Section 28. ‘Heartstopper’ helps heal the pain
The new British drama series shows LGBTIQ freedom as a normal part of school life. If only my own school days had...
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Published in: Changemakers: OpinionWhy we need feminist leadership for climate justice
Women from the Global South, who have long fought inequality, understand that radically different tools are needed...
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Published in: Home: FeatureDispatches from Westminster Greggs: ‘who’s Lorraine?’, GMB and Starmer beers
An openDemocracy contact found the following memo under a decaf flat white in the Westminster Greggs. We cannot...
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Published in: Home: FeatureNo, decolonising your bookshelf doesn’t mean getting rid of Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the right-wing press will inflame any debate on decolonisation,...
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Published in: Home: Feature‘Forget about Elon Musk’: How to save the world from Big Tech
In an openDemocracy live discussion, Shoshana Zuboff and Susie Alegre warned that, left unchecked, Big Tech can...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: OpinionMichael Gove smeared us. Now we have been vindicated by an official inquiry
The levelling up secretary attacked our ‘Clearing House’ reporting. Today, he is the one who looks ‘ridiculous’