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Published in:50.50: OpinionUS liberals and political media need to show urgency on the climate crisisDespite floods and fires, both left and right in the US act like environmental disaster isn’t happening
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Published in:50.50: InvestigationRevealed: Major US banks are funding anti-LGBTIQ groupsGoldman Sachs and Bank of America foundations gave over $600,000 to ultraconservative groups
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Published in:oDR: FeatureTajikistan’s Pamiris: Persecuted, disappeared, and forgotten by the worldPamiris are increasingly fleeing Tajikistan, fearing for their lives. But they risk being returned by hostile states
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Published in:50.50: NewsYoung Arab and Black men jailed and fined in France’s riot trialsFast-track trials deliver hefty sentences for petty crimes committed during riots sparked by police killing teenager
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Published in:50.50: FeatureQueer Ugandans reveal devastating impact of anti-gay lawA month after the Anti-Homosexuality Act was signed into law, LGBTIQ people have told of fear and violent attacks
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: ReviewCobalt Red: a regressive, deeply flawed account of Congo’s mining industry
Billed as an exposé, Cobalt Red simply rehashes old stereotypes and colonial perceptions of the DRC
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Published in: HomeHow many Namibians is too many for Suella? 935
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Published in: HomeCould winning an election be the end of Keir Starmer?
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Published in: 50.50: InterviewGuatemala election: Candidate’s office raided after vow to curb corruptionGuatemala’s embattled presidential hopeful Bernardo Arévalo tells openDemocracy of plans to crack down on corruption
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionUN should be learning from sustainable food producers – not hosting Big AgSmall-scale farmers and Indigenous groups say they have again been shut out of the UN Food Systems Summit
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Published in: Home: NewsThe Tories’ lesson from Uxbridge: pretend not to be the ToriesThe Conservative Party was barely mentioned in election leaflets, while Boris Johnson’s name didn’t come up once
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Published in: Home: NewsJust Stop Oil targets think tank over role in protest crackdownActivists targeted Policy Exchange after openDemocracy revealed it received Big Oil funding and helped draft law
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Published in: Home: News‘Objective reality’ that Met is institutionally racist, says Louise CaseyThe Casey report author doubled down on her findings at the launch of a Black-led police reform group
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Published in: Home: NewsNo evidence that scrapping non-dom status would cost UK £350m, Treasury admitsMissing analysis casts doubt on claims published in Telegraph and puts pressure on Rishi Sunak over billionaire loophole
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Published in: Home: NewsCovid inquiry first phase ends with shot at ‘critically under-resourced’ NHSArguments over NHS funding and future pandemic preparations marked the end of the opening phase of public hearings
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Published in: Home: ExplainerThe UK is paying the worst polluters to keep polluting. Here’s why
Step forward, the ‘Emissions Trading Scheme’ – which says we can’t possibly tax Air France in case it moves to Armenia
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Lobbying chief set to win seat on policy-shaping Labour committeeDirector whose lobbying firm represents BlackRock and Police Federation seeks place on party’s conference committee
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisWhy have the Tories abandoned migrant victims of modern slavery?The Illegal Migration Bill removes protections for migrants that the Tories themselves put in place. Why?
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Published in: Home: NewsHow Brixton’s community took on a major developer – and wonHondo Enterprises has scrapped plans for a 20-storey office block overlooking the famous Electric Avenue
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Published in: Home: NewsCovid bereaved families slam David Cameron and George Osborne over austerityLawyers for the victims' families took aim at those they hold responsible for leaving the UK unprepared for Covid
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWe founded Stonewall amid a moral panic. History is repeating itselfThe attacks directed at trans people have strong echoes of the abuse my gay friends and I received decades ago
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Published in: Home: NewsCovid bereaved say loved ones were treated ‘like toxic waste’ after deathUK was not equipped to deal with Covid deaths, bereaved families tell inquiry as Module 1 concludes
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Published in: Home: NewsBMA chief: UK stockpiled just 3% of daily PPE needed for CovidPhilip Banfield echoes National Audit Office warning about lack of gowns – and criticises standard of NHS-issue masks
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Bank of England staff handed £25m in bonusesTop bankers have pocketed up to £22,500 on top of their regular salaries, as critics say there is ‘no justification’
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Published in: Home: FeatureBereaved families demand reform to UK’s outdated drug lawsAs Sunak rejects legalisation in Scotland, grieving families ask how many more must die as a result of 50-year-old law
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsOligarch’s ‘UK office’ had bank accounts frozen after openDemocracy revelationsAction came shortly after we revealed ex-Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov could still profit from London firm
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Published in: Home: NewsGove tells Covid inquiry no-deal Brexit planning prepared UK for ‘any’ crisisThe levelling up secretary defended the government's decision to focus on no-deal Brexit over a potential pandemic
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Published in: Home: NewsCovid inquiry has no plan to sanction Boris Johnson over missing messagesBereaved families have called for action against the former prime minister, who claims he can’t unlock his old phone
