NHS England’s Federated Data Platform, run primarily by controversial US military contractor Palantir, would give a future UK ...

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

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 ...

Henry Nowak is dead. His family asked only to be left to grieve him; they were refused that right. What comes next will not ...

The first is that most people and organisations are selective about defending speech, only doing so when the speech or the ...

Volunteers remain detained in Libya after a bid to deliver aid to Gaza by land collapsed amid violence and obstruction ...

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

The US, Iran, Israel and Hezbollah all have reasons to avoid full-scale war. But none yet has a serious route to peace.

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 ...

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 ...