#OpenDemocracy

"The opportunities for Welsh independence are endless" – @TheGreenParty deputy leader @Amelia_Womack speaks to @AdamRamsay about why more people are backing Welsh independence... and why the Greens are, too.Adam's full
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(1) Five reasons why there's no free and independent press in the UK 1/ Billionaires own the press set the agenda - highly concentrated ownership structure- 6 billionaires owning &/or
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BREAKING: Facing a threatened lawsuit from @openDemocracy & @Foxglovelegal, the UK govt secretly signed a massive a 2-year, £23m NHS data deal with controversial tech firm Palantir (1)https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/controversi
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"Massive NHS COVID-19 data deal with private tech firms, the UK government has caved to pressure and released all the contracts governing its deals with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and controversial
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With the release of Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), a cautionary reminder about reading too much into the rankings and scores. I outline some of the inherent methodological
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The situation we are in is unprecedented. But the backdrop is that 12 years of systematic underfunding, fragmentation and piecemeal privatisation has decimated the NHS and rendered it unable to
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Turns out the £660bn "national cost of UBI" quoted here is the result of Cllr @RossMackinnonWB simply multiplying the UK population by the UBI they'd get, without factoring in the
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"The govt assured us that the #COVID datastore would be unwound at the end of the pandemic & the data destroyed. They also said any extension would go out to
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Today rival newspapers from across the UK media have joined our call to #SaveFOI as a vital pillar of #PressFreedom.Here's our Editor in Chief @maryftz on why this is so
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Right before @planetlabs further improved its SkySat quality this week, we were amazed to finally see a hi-res shot of the abandoned 350m x 70m FPSO tanker SAFER off the
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Revealed: Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow runs the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) which has donated $3.3 million to a Russian evangelical org with close Kremlin ties, an @openDemocracy
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Thread about @landemore's #OpenDemocracyAn open democracy is a new paradigm that takes seriously the ideal of popular rule as rule by the people. Has 5 principles:1. Participation rights2. Deliberation3. Majoritarian
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Reading the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack on Christchurch masjidain on 15 March 2019 about the killer's relationship to Australia's fascist milieu is making
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One thing that strikes me forcefully right now is that neoliberalism has not just robbed our governments of the *capacity* for effective action in the public good: it's robbed us
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This week the government duped us.It spun that its failed national contact tracing scheme was transforming into a proper local system.& the media bought the spin. Save this thread, so
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The US election is the most divisive in decades. But the fractures running through US society long predate COVID-19.Here are six charts that reveal America’s deep divides:https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/six-charts-that-reveal-
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