Democracy Weekly Newsletter 11 July 2026 ...

The rusting iron gates and dirty tiled staircase of a nondescript storefront on a quiet, dusty, residential street downtown Tivat, Montenegro, where women hang their laundry out the windows as men ...

Palantir is benefiting from millions of pounds of tax deductions that allow it to pay very little corporate tax in the United Kingdom despite soaring profits, an investigation by openDemocracy reveals ...

Progressives within Labour and the Green Party have told openDemocracy of their concern over Andy Burnham’s plans to hire one of the UK’s top lobbying bosses to run his No 10 operation. Burnham is set ...

David Potter, who died on 28 June, was the UK’s pioneering engineer and entrepreneur of the computer age. In 1980, he founded Psion, a technology company that went on to create the world’s first ...

Elsewhere, as Israel continues to deny the media access to Gaza and international coalitions seek new ways to reach the ...

Godwin's law, the adage that "as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one", reflects the fact that one of the surest ways to ...

UK’s weak lobbying laws leave public in the dark about Flint Global’s vast access to government under James Purnell ...

Another is the vexed issue of the proxy wars, with the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict being the most difficult. The on-off discussions between Israel and the Lebanese government might imply that this ...

Se necesitaron años de presión ciudadana para que Botsuana eliminara leyes coloniales contra la comunidad LGBTQI+ ...

The reason given by most 2017 Labour voters for deserting the party was not its Brexit policy, or its overall platform, but the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. In the first article of this series, I ...

Britain suffered a bleak economic landscape in 2023, with wages stagnant and costs rising across the board, but political donors and the parties they give to seem to have been unimpacted. All parties ...