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Published in:Home: NewsNo evidence that scrapping non-dom status would cost UK £350m, Treasury admits
Missing analysis casts doubt on claims published in Telegraph and puts pressure on Rishi Sunak over billionaire loophole
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Published in:Home: NewsUK gave £690,000 subsidy to Russian airline day after invasion
Volga-Dnepr Airlines was given a free pass to emit up to 8,700 tonnes of carbon in Britain’s skies without penalty
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Published in:Home: NewsLobbying chief set to win seat on policy-shaping Labour committee
Director whose lobbying firm represents BlackRock and Police Federation seeks place on party’s conference committee
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Published in:Home: AnalysisWhat Uxbridge does (and doesn’t) tell us about ULEZ and Labour’s strategy
Both Labour and the Tories blame Sadiq Khan’s anti-pollution strategy. But are they right about what voters want?
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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:Home: News‘Objective reality’ that Met is institutionally racist, says Louise Casey
The Casey report author doubled down on her findings at the launch of a Black-led police reform group
As the NHS turns 75, we launch our major series on Britain’s new care crisis
Seventy-five years after the founding of the NHS, we need an equally bold solution to fix our broken social care system
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Published in: oDRWhy did Lukashenka invite Wagner rebels to Belarus?
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Published in: Home: OpinionSunak knows hiking visa fees will devastate migrant families. That’s the aim
The decision to fund public sector pay rises through migrants’ visa and healthcare fees is political and unfair
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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: Home: OpinionCould winning an election be the end of Keir Starmer?
Elected as the lesser of two evils, Labour will face crises from the offset. Could its disenchanted left step in?
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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: 50.50: NewsYoung Arab and Black men jailed and fined in France’s riot trials
Fast-track trials deliver hefty sentences for petty crimes committed during riots sparked by police killing teenager
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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: 50.50: OpinionUS liberals and political media need to show urgency on the climate crisis
Despite floods and fires, both left and right in the US act like environmental disaster isn’t happening
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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: oDR: ExplainerWhy Putin has joined the global attack on the trans community
Trans Russians face more danger as Kremlin’s war on LGBTIQ community ramps up with ban on trans healthcare
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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: 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: 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
