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openDemocracy’s senior investigative reporter Sian Norris was digging into the state of prisons in England and Wales when she made a shocking discovery: potentially thousands of women with criminal records, or in prison, are actually domestic abuse victims

As Israel’s general election looms next week, any idea that it could usher in a government committed to ending the country’s wars has evaporated.

There are moments when a society seems to realise, almost suddenly, that what it had been putting up with for years was not natural.

Olivia* had always wanted to be a police officer.

Donald Trump’s goal of regional dominance will be put to the ultimate test this weekend – not in the United States, but at the ballot box in Brazil.

When Kevin Roberts, the president of the US-based Heritage Foundation, took the podium at the fourth regional meeting of the right-wing Madrid Forum in Santiago, Chile, last month, he and his foundation had much to celebrate.

Many of us are already feeling the creep of AI into our workplaces.

Garfield Hylton has long known that Amazon monitors and logs every minute of his working day.

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The British government is short-changing the public on our right to access information on the climate crisis, wildlife destruction and river pollution.

A month ago, our newsletter considered 9/11 and the long shadow of the war on terror.

Anne and Jane* were just 10 years old when they say they were sexually abused by a member of staff connected to their British Army-run school in Bünde, West Germany.

And so each year since 2023, as the summer gives way to autumn, we must consider and contemplate 7 October.

Taking aim at those campaigning against the genocide in Gaza, the new foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, declared at the Labour Party Conference: “You were right”.

Margaret Owen is 94 years old.

Yesterday’s Holborn and St.

Last week, in an openDemocracy column examining the US’s reliance on the B-1B strategic bombers stationed at the UK’s RAF Fairford, I argued that the thin-skinned Donald Trump was likely to escalate his failing war against Iran to avoid being seen to admit

The UK government is positioning itself as a global leader on AI regulation while struggling to agree on how far rules should go — and what risks they should address.

Is Donald Trump a Russian asset?

Listen now In this episode Sian Norris speaks with The Guardian’s Luke Harding about his book Betrayal: Putin, Trump and the New Age of Conquest, covering Harding’s 2007–2011 Moscow posting, FSB harassment and his expulsion while investigating Litvinenko…

Brazil’s first-round presidential vote last weekend exposed the consequences of US meddling – leaving the country’s sovereignty at stake as voters decide between two candidates.

Three years after October 2023, Palestine solidarity campaigning has become an increasingly visible force in British politics.

An 87-year-old woman has become a national symbol in Spain – sparking a crisis at the heart of the country’s politics that has today forced a snap election.

This week saw the Labour Party descend on Liverpool for its annual conference – the party’s third since taking office.

Listen now In this episode of In Solidarity, Aman is joined by fellow openDemocracy investigative journalists Sian Norris and Ethan Shone to break down the recent Labour conference and how it fits into the rapidly changing political landscape in the UK.

Ed Miliband is on stage, and everyone is having a good time.

Many questions remain over last weekend’s incident at RAF Fairford, which was initially widely reported as a thwarted terror attack with a possible connection to Iran.

Russia’s threat to Europe and the UK was a key talking point at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this week, with Johanna Baxter MP warning that Vladimir Putin’s aggression “will not stop” at Ukraine.

On 4 October, Brazilians will go to the ballots in the tenth presidential election since the country’s return to democracy in 1985.

Andy Burnham’s first Labour Party Conference speech as prime minister was pitched at a high emotional level and showed much of what makes him an effective politician: he comes across as warm, empathetic and sincere in a way that few recent PMs have manage…

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“Soft Tories are some of the most anti-Reform voters” and will be key to defeating Nigel Farage at the next general election, according to Hope Not Hate’s CEO, Nick Lowles.

In this week’s issue For many years, defenders of Israel’s policies in Palestine have pointed to the many Arab regimes that have turned a blind eye to the plight of Palestinians.

It’s quite literally everywhere: the words “housing” and “crisis”.

Wael Naouar has been refusing food since 16 August this year.

While Donald Trump has long dismissed any bad news about his war on Iran as lies dreamed up by a woke media, this faces a persistent problem: the checks and balances built into the US system cannot be so easily dismissed.

When Argentina defeated England at the World Cup semi-final on 15 July, a hotel bedsheet painted with ‘Las Malvinas son argentinas’ (the Falklands are Argentine) in large black letters became an overnight national symbol – and a political weapon for Javier

Listen now Governments hand out billions in lucrative contracts to tech corporations to build surveillance systems, track migrants, and process public health data.

In this week’s issue Race to build Brazil’s mammoth AI data centres is driving construction workers to the point of exhaustion and severe injury.

When anti-abortion actors march through Berlin, the feminists of the What the Fuck?!

This is a translated and edited version of the investigation originally published by Agência Pública The nine glistening towers of the Scala data centre complex, which serve the data needs of some of the world’s biggest tech corporations including Amazon…

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the urgent need for a progressive way forward for UK politics.