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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsOwen Paterson asked third firm for a job ‘weeks after leaving government’Exclusive: Disgraced former Tory MP phoned businessman he’d met through his ministerial brief to ask for work...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBritish politics is an oligarchs’ cocktail party. Tory ministers are the waitersThe recent onslaught of government sleaze shows once again why the UK has been called ‘the most corrupt country in the world’
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsMPs inundated with complaints from voters over Tory sleaze scandalSome Tory MPs hit back at voters over ‘destruction’ of Owen Paterson, while others admit being ‘deeply unhappy’...
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Published in: Live discussionsHow to change the narrative on corruption in the UKThanks to Owen Paterson, British politicians are at last starting to use the C-word. It’s not just a Westminster...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionGreenham Common Women’s Peace Camp changed the world – and my lifeI recently heard a woman on the radio say she’d have rather lost a limb than not have lived at the camp. God, yes
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionJohnson’s UK, Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Orbán’s Hungary: peas in a state-captured podState capture happens when narrow interest groups take control of public policy, buying influence to rewrite the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionNo second jobs for MPs, declare all lobbying: how Labour can fight corruptionThe people should be sovereign – but it is the power of wealth that is steering the UK’s course. A few simple but...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionI told the UK Parliament how to fix corruption… nobody listenedThe Owen Paterson scandal doesn’t surprise me; MPs shouldn’t be trusted. That’s why Westminster is plagued with scandals
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe Welsh government is escaping scrutiny over COVID-19A landmark report showed Westminster’s terrible mistakes in the pandemic. But Wales made its own mistakes, too
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Published in: ourNHS: AnalysisI raised an early alarm on PCR test scandal but authorities ignored meCommunity volunteer demands inquiry into impact of mistakes by privately-run Immensa lab after huge spike in COVID cases
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion6 government policies that are scarier than HalloweenIf you’re scared of haunted houses and the faceless figure in the dark corner of your room, this list of government...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsCOVID benefit cut leaves half a million disabled people £1,000 a year worse offSunak’s Budget sop to ‘reward work’ for worst hit by Universal Credit changes still hammers UK households unable to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIt’s time to issue climate reparations to working-class people around the worldShared struggles, shared solutions: connecting communities from east London to Ogoniland in search of justice
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsTory MP calling for delay to UK climate action has banked £150k from oil firmFormer energy minister John Hayes, who has likened climate protesters to ‘Radical Islam’, has received a £50,000...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsBritish MPs urge privacy watchdog to investigate BP for ‘political spying’Oil giant’s actions branded ‘shocking and intrusive’ after openDemocracy revealed it paid a spy firm to snoop on...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy we need White History MonthBlack History Month is a great thing, but think what we might learn from a White sequel
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Published in: Freedom of Information: News2020 was worst year on record for UK government secrecyExclusive: Landmark openDemocracy report exposes depth of the government’s attack on the Freedom of Information Act
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsBP paid ex-MI6 spy firm to snoop on green campaignersExclusive: Oil giant also shared intelligence on environmentalists with British Museum and Warwick University in...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisGlasgow’s COP26 is crunch time to save the world from disasterLooking back on 30 years of climate conferences, Geoffrey Lean recalls the many missed opportunities for change that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionOn holiday in sunny, sensible Portugal, I realised England is bad, actuallyThe Portuguese use masks to keep COVID at bay, while the English rely on nostalgia and a misguided sense of national...