OPINION: The UK has dropped in the Corruption Perception Index. But corruption is global – and we are its engine

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OPINION: Marketisation has left university staff on precarious contracts and students paying more for less

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LGBTIQ activists across the UK are rethinking their place in the union after Sunak blocked new Scottish legislation

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OPINION: Prince Harry's interview highlighted how two dying institutions have been left to prop one another up

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From devastating floods in Pakistan to Italy’s far-right PM to overturning Roe v Wade, this was a year of extremes

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OPINION: As nurses strike in the rest of the UK, Scotland has reached a deal. That has implications beyond the NHS

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The chancellor has put the economy on the line to appeal to Brexiteers, hedge fund manegers and City oligarchs

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Decades of neoliberalism have paved the way for authoritarian reactionaries, but we can change direction

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OPINION: Gordon Brown is on the money with his diagnosis of the problem. But his solutions aren’t nearly enough

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Britain’s Labour leader was elected as a left-winger, but then ran to the right. Why would voters trust anything he says?

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While the question of Scotland’s independence won’t be solved by a British court, the ruling could cause chaos

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Beyond Musk’s oft-repeated rants about free speech may lie shadier plans to recoup the $44bn he paid for the site.

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Beyond Musk’s oft-repeated rants about free speech, may lie shadier plans to recoup the $44bn he paid for the site

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OPINION: Sunak wants yet another round of cuts to public spending. And just like in 2010, we didn’t vote for it

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OPINION: Our chaotic electoral system is the result of 60 years of tweaks to a fundamentally unjust base

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Hounding of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre’s director part of a pattern of attacks on trans-inclusive feminist groups

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Hounding of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre’s director part of a pattern of attacks on trans-inclusive feminist groups

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As other nations return to state-led investment, Truss and Kwarteng act to weaken our democracy, economy and rights.

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As other nations return to state-led investment, Truss and Kwarteng act to weaken our democracy, economy and rights

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It’s time we stopped forcing young children into strict gender categories

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openDemocracy caught British Gas trying to ‘offset’ CO₂ with worthless carbon credits. But the rot goes deeper

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ANALYSIS: The UK’s role in the sale of Newcastle United shows we are little more than a laundry for dirty money

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Graham Stuart criticised over ownership of publishing business behind mag that promoted 4x4s and SUVs

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The new PM promises an authoritarian crackdown on workers, protesters, migrants – pretty much everyone, in fact

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OPINION: The Queen represented a romanticised vision of Britain. With her gone, Scotland has even less reason to stay

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Johnson’s brief premiership has been a relentless assault on our freedoms – to organise, to protest, to vote

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We can’t accept an annual lurch from droughts to floods – we must take our land back from the aristocracy