#OpenDemocracy

@justiceseer.bsky.social

1 month ago

An #OpenDemocracy investigation revealed a #Labour-aligned lobbying firm, #ArdenStrategies, was OFFERING companies to pay for PRIVILEGED ACESS to senior #political #figuress. Including a PRIVATE #TechEvent involving CURRENT & prospective #LabourMinisters!
#CashForAccess!🤑
mailchi.mp/365dc553fb69...

Hurting more people is worse

@kmpiw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

2 months ago

Finally someone sees the detail, not just the lazy "as bad as" comparison.

www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asi... Israel and the mirror of ISIS #openDemocracy

It's not that #Israel is #JewishISIS that's the wrong order, it's more like #ISIS copied […]

Bremain in Spain

@bremaininspain.com

3 months ago

With UK politics in flux, Your Party may well surprise you Last weekend, two very different Your Party conferences took place: the one reported on in the press, and the real one

With UK politics in flux, Your Party may well surprise you yet
Last weekend, two very different Your Party conferences took place: the one reported on in the press, and the real one
#OpenDemocracy
www.opendemocracy.net/en/your-part...

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺

@muchechops.bsky.social

6 months ago

who knew snakeoil could be so profitable for his paymasters?

www.opendemocracy.net/en/reform-uk...

can you #help #OpenDemocracy #defend the #UK from the #far-right-extremists?

www.opendemocracy.net/en/donate/

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺

@muchechops.bsky.social

7 months ago

Delivery riders at mercy of algorithms and immigration raids Migrants denied right to work turn to exploitative delivery apps to earn cash, but the government is cracking down

#OpenDemocracy #beyond-trafficking-&-slavery
#UK #Govt’s new strategy to #target #migrants & #gig-economy workers for #Brexit’s damagings

www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺

@muchechops.bsky.social

7 months ago

Only nationalisation can fix England’s failing water sector Privatisation means the public faces higher bills and pollution as shareholders cash in. Why won’t Labour admit that?

#OpenDemocracy: only #nationalisation can save #UK #Utilities & #Essential-Services

www.opendemocracy.net/en/nationali...

STOP DISINFORMATION Desinformación

@disinformationstop.bsky.social

7 months ago

Algunos científicos y activistas piden frenar esta financiación y actuar como se hizo con la industria tabaquera
Una investigación de #openDemocracy e #InvestigateEurope que #infoLibre publica en exclusiva en España
www.infolibre.es/internaciona...

@justiceseer.bsky.social

7 months ago

Exclusive: Watchdog probes Starmer aide’s lobbying of Tories openDemocracy findings on Varun Chandra’s activities at Hakluyt prompted official watchdog to launch investigation

'An #openDemocracy investigation has uncovered a host of meetings between #Chandra and senior #ToryGovernment figures-including a roundtable NEVER properly DISCLOSED by the government,arranged by #Chandra involving #Tory #KwasiKwarteng& ten leading financiers.'🤑
www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺

@muchechops.bsky.social

8 months ago

Are grooming gangs the far right’s golden goose? The far right cynically uses child sexual exploitation to push an anti-migrant and islamophobia agenda

#OpenDemocracy discuss #right-wing rhetoric complicating the issues of #child-abuse, #grooming & #organised-grooming-abuse with survivor & campaigner #Louise-Raw

www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

Stuppura.bsky.social

@stuppura.bsky.social

11 months ago

Inside massacre of Gaza aid workers found dead and buried Bodies were found a week after Civil Defense and Palestinian Red Crescent crew members went on rescue mission to Rafah

This is a good newsletter. (I skip most headlines targeted to Britons.)
Example below.
#opendemocracy
#Gaza
tinyurl.com/bd25hrjx

earthbeingx

@earthbeingx.bsky.social

1 year ago

Is #Trumpism a #political #movement? Or is it more useful to think of it as a mystical offshoot of #American #Christianity?
#OpenDemocracy and #JeffSharlet (author of The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow #CivilWar) discuss this ⤵️

www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/...

open.spotify.com/episode/5udB...

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺

@muchechops.bsky.social

1 year ago

Nationality and Borders Act damaging queer asylum to UK ‘How do I prove I’m gay with documentary evidence when my own parents can’t comprehend it?’

#Britain #asylum #LGBTQ+ #QueerBritain #QueerAsylum
#OpenDemocracy
www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-nation...

Ernest Bruce

@ernestbruce.bsky.social

1 year ago

Rage Against Patriarchy the scourge of patriarchy must be wiped from the face of the earth. Click to read Rage Against Patriarchy, by Ernest Bruce, a Substack publication. Launched 17 days ago.

@opendemocracy.net

Our Terrible State of Affairs
rageagainstpatriarchy.substack.com/p/c49a4211-4...

i am looking for folks who are science, truth and fairness oriented to create the harmony forests that will support sustainable and equitable societies

#RageAgainstPatriarchy
#OpenDemocracy

Frank Ryan

@clinpsych.bsky.social

1 year ago

These two men, Head of State and Prime Minister, meet every week. But no citizens of UK (or anywhere!) know what they talk about. #opendemocracy

Michaële Cutaya

@michaelecutaya.bsky.social

1 year ago

I'm so tired by these big elections circuses. I mean we are at the watch-me-dance-for-40-minutes-to-my-favourites-songs stage of electoral democracy. Isn't it about time we move towards other forms of representation? #OpenDemocracy #Sortition #SelfRepresentation #CitizenAssemblies etc

Martin Hughes

@martinhughes8.bsky.social

1 year ago

Fake news’ invention 500 years ago offers lessons for today It is no coincidence that Europe’s witch-hunt frenzy followed shortly after the birth of the printing press

Fake news invented 500 years ago
No coincidence that Europe’s witch-hunt frenzy followed shortly after the birth of the printing press
We must learn from its history, says #OpenDemocracy
www.opendemocracy.net/en/fake-news...

Andy

@januskopp.bsky.social

4 years ago

Mit der #EDEKA-App hab ich binnen einem Jahr 666, seggshundertseggsundseggszig, Punkte gemacht.👹🍆

Das heißt, ich hab dort in einem Jahr 1332 € ausgegeben. #Transparenz #nebeneinkünfte #opendemocracy #abgeordnetenwatch
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