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24/11/2023

The Metropolitan Police has been criticised for allowing an officer to return to his school post after he wrongfully arrested a Black Muslim student and left her traumatised.

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23/11/2023

The UK had enough data on Covid-19 to go into lockdown on 16 March 2020 – a week earlier than Boris Johnson told Britain to stay at home, the government’s chief scientific adviser has said.

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23/11/2023

James Cleverly's Home Office is trying to rush through Braverman’s armed police reforms

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Government accused of sidelining victims with aim to carry out ‘wholesale review’ in under two months

23/11/2023

Exclusive: Virgin Atlantic 'net zero' flight will use entirely ‘sustainable aviation fuel’ – a technology labelled as greenwash

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/virgin-atlantic-world-first-transatlantic-net-zero-flight-saf-sustainable-aviation-fuel-cop28

22/11/2023

OPINION: Jeremy Hunt’s benefit crackdown will worsen an already terrible system

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The chancellor knows the anguish the welfare system causes Disabled people – and he knows his reforms won’t help

22/11/2023

Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s former deputy chief medical officer, said the government’s flagship Covid mass testing scheme was ‘never going to work’

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Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s former deputy chief medical officer, said Operation Moonshot ‘didn’t make any sense’

22/11/2023

Opaquely funded lobbying group the Adam Smith Institute claims to be responsible for parts of Jeremy Hunt’s budget, calling it ‘amazing news’

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22/11/2023

Did Rishi Sunak lie to Parliament?

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22/11/2023

The economy is the sum total of our work, purchases and social interactions. The chancellor has forgotten how it works

The economy is the sum total of our work, purchases and social interactions. The chancellor has forgotten how it works

22/11/2023

How the DWP fought to withhold evidence its policies kill disabled people

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Analysis: By blocking the publication of reports, the DWP showed how to weaponise time to avoid accountability

22/11/2023

Jeremy Hunt knows the anguish the welfare system causes Disabled people – and he knows his reforms won’t help

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22/11/2023

Don’t be fooled: US Supreme Court’s joke of an ethics code is not reform

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The new code is just sloppy PR – an attempt to get ahead of meaningful congressional oversight

22/11/2023

EXCLUSIVE: Hunt's calls for disabled people to find remote jobs follows policy to make flexible work less accessible

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22/11/2023

ANN PETTIFOR: Hunt’s autumn statement snuffs out any hope of an economic revival

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22/11/2023

Ministers were urged to stop discussing “ridiculous” and “dangerous” herd immunity policies in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Chris Whitty has said.

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22/11/2023

Chris Whitty returns to the witness stand at the Covid Inquiry today

You can now watch the inquiry live on our YouTube channel. 👇

https://bit.ly/3unX5cl

20/07/2023

We asked the readers of our news letter if they'd support Ukraine becoming a full member of NATO, here's what they had to say.

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14/07/2023

Things may look rosy for NATO today, but climate breakdown, not wars, are the biggest threat to global security

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14/07/2023

Action came shortly after we revealed ex-Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov could still profit from London firm

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14/07/2023

Zelenskyi was disappointed by the lack of a formal invitation to join NATO – but offers to Ukraine were significant

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14/07/2023

The levelling up secretary defended the government's decision to focus on no-deal Brexit over a potential pandemic

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13/07/2023

“Major engineering and structural changes” were made to improve equipment when Covid hit, a health expert has said

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13/07/2023

🚨Breaking:
Covid inquiry has no plan to sanction Boris Johnson over missing messages
Bereaved families have called for action against the former PM, who claims he 'can’t unlock his old phone'
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13/07/2023

Despite ruined homes, waist-high floods and food shortages, Kherson’s residents are still finding reasons to smile

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13/07/2023

The junior doctors strike is just another symptom of the corporate care system failing us all.

Watch the full video here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/the-uk-care-crisis-explained/

13/07/2023

Local government chief says sharing results of national exercises would have ‘changed what we were doing’ during Covid

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13/07/2023

❗Exclusive: National Farmers’ Union boasted about months of lobbying to weaken enforcement of environmental regulation

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12/07/2023

The government is also facing legal action over its automated system that decides which couples are investigated

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12/07/2023

Revealed: Experts condemn a ‘missed opportunity’ after government fails to invite them to new group reviewing FOI

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11/07/2023

Goldman Sachs and Bank of America foundations gave over $600,000 to ultraconservative groups

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11/07/2023

Press officers were told to “ignore” enquiries about the Mountbatten diaries, saying: “Let the answerphone get it”

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11/07/2023

Asylum seekers are being imprisoned for entering the UK illegally – when there is no legal way of getting in

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11/07/2023

Journalists face extraordinary legal risks to investigate shareholdings in Britain’s biggest companies

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10/07/2023

Chechen activist speaks to openDemocracy after his mother was imprisoned and the reporter covering her case attacked

Read his story here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/chechnya-attack-journalist-lawyer-revenge-family-abubakar-yangulbaev-elena-milashina/

10/07/2023

Mermaids’ appeal against the England & Wales Charity Commission’s decision to award the LGB Alliance charity status has been dismissed on technical grounds.

Read the full story here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/lgb-alliance-mermaids-charity-commission-tribunal-dismissed-technical-grounds/

10/07/2023

lawyer appointed by the government to review s*x education previously represented a right-wing group calling for a ban on LGBTQ-inclusive educational material in schools

Read the full story: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/s*x-education-review-panel-christian-concern-alasdair-henderson/

06/07/2023

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29/06/2023

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27/06/2023

The UN must step up to avoid a nuclear catastrophe in

Read more here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-un-needed-avoid-catastrophe-ukraine-russia-war/