Adding to the current turmoil in UK politics is the issue of military spending. Last week, it cost Keir Starmer his defence minister, and it will likely help precipitate Andy Burnham’s arrival in ...

In Parliaments, TikTok and COP summits, AllatRa spread claims that greenhouse gases are not main cause of climate crisis ...

Editor’s note: This piece was published in the days before the four Palestine Action activists were sentenced. In the end, the judge presiding over the case ruled that there was a terrorism connection ...

The UK government has been accused of rushing out plans for a social media ban for under-16s without considering the knock-on effects it would have on surveillance, privacy and young people’s ...

The identity of the donor behind a controversial £10m donation to Oxford University is to remain secret after a judge dismissed openDemocracy’s appeal for transparency. Oxford University announced it ...

Andy Burnham used what was widely understood as his Labour leadership launch speech to argue that the UK needs a different economic model to end “40 years of neoliberalism”. The Manchester mayor, who ...

For the past ten years, I’ve made my home in Cloughfern on the outskirts of the Northern Irish capital. Ten minutes’ walk one way, and you’re in Monkstown Wood, a nature reserve replete with birds, ...

Uncertainty is the prevailing mood in Cuba. Donald Trump has been clear about intervening in the country. Will the US president repeat his ‘successful’ intervention in Venezuela, or has he envisioned ...

Contested vote throws into doubt future of law criminalising queer people, allies and parts of public health sector ...

But as openDemocracy’s tech reporter Jade-Ruyu Yan reports in her cover story for this week, Palantir’s relationship with the ...

The first is that most people and organisations are selective about defending speech, only doing so when the speech or the speaker in question aligns with their political views and affiliations. This ...

The Left must draw a frontier between the people and the oligarchy, and ecological transition is the thing around which a collective popular force can crystallise. The end of left populism has ...