#Opendemocracy

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

Yesterday Scotland's Daily Mail lied to its readers and pretended a staffer at US hate group, the ADF, was a UN Human Rights expert.Here is that ADF staffer arguing that

Damien Gayle

damiengayle

BREAKING: Elizabeth Denham, @ICOnews information commissioner, has confirmed the @Conservatives broke the law by racially profiling 10m voters in 2019. https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/d4a948dd-b19a-4ece-adbe-8d84cfab09c5?in=11:19:48&a

Laurie Macfarlane

L__Macfarlane

Interesting new report from @taxjusticeUK which finds broad public support for higher taxes, but little public appetite for ‘bashing the rich’ and a widespread belief in meritocracy. Some thoughts on

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

So why do so many public contracts end up with friends of Dominic Cummings?@GoodLawProject is judicially reviewing the grant of a lucrative, backdated, public affairs contract, granted on a handshake,

Kodama Mama

CaseyExplosion

Hey folks, today let's talk about the LGB Alliance and its goals, because whole they are quite nakedly a hate group, I don't think people appreciate just how sinister their

Olivia ★ Hill

machineiv

Unpopular opinion: If I say "being trans is like [explains bad thing about my experience]" and non-trans people say stuff like, "Here's a way that's similar for (fat people, disabled

Jim Killock

jimkillock

This should be all over the papers. Racial profiling of voters without consent is not acceptable.https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/conservative-party-racially-profiled-10-million-voters/ And, you may ask, why isn’t it all o

CLARE SAMBROOK

CLARESAMBROOK

1/ What’s going on with schools in England? How come so many academy schools controllers are super-rich supporters of #Brexit, #BorisJohnson & Michael #Gove? I’ve been investigating with @warwickmansell Here’s

Sunny Hundal

sunny_hundal

One frustrating side to Elections Twitter is how quickly people condemn groups for voting differently.Especially minority groups.This thread is primarily about Latinos in Florida but it applies to the UK

Shine A Light

SHINEreports

People continue to die preventable deaths in UK police custody. Bereaved families continue to face delay, defensiveness, denial in their struggles for truth and accountability. @SarahUncles of @INQUEST_org on an

Maya Forstater

MForstater

Open Democracy "free thinking for the world" has really lost its way @AnthonyBarnett @maryftzShock horror! UK government minister meets with some lesbians who think being a lesbian doesn't involve having

Laurie Macfarlane

L__Macfarlane

This piece by Andrew Wilson is littered with falsehoods. That they continue to be repeated - while legitimate criticism is ignored - is starting to have a seriously corrosive effect

Laurie Macfarlane

L__Macfarlane

Good FT editorial identifying one of the key drivers of inequality during the pandemic: high saving rates among those who’ve maintained their incomes, and rising indebtedness among those who haven’t.

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

Having come to the party 6 months late, @BBCNews now claims to have "revealed" the PPE scandal. No acknowledgement of those (@GoodLawProject, @openDemocracy, @BylineTimes, some of us at @guardian) who've

ECPMF

ECPMF

On Friday 29th May the Media Freedom Rapid Response (#MediaFreedomRR) sent a letter to UK Prime Minister, @BorisJohnson about the Government's attempts to restrict media scrutiny of its policies and

Rob Ford

robfordmancs

Two things can be true at once: 1. There is an issue with hostility some academics have faced on some issues2. Another academic who himself uses threats of legal action

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