Employees at Drax, Grangemouth and other energy sites will walk out every fortnight as firms rake in huge profits

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As the effects of the climate crisis are seen in global heatwaves and droughts, oil firms are booming.

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BBC, LBC and GBNews dedicated 3% of interview time with Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak to climate change as UK smouldered

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BBC, LBC and GB News dedicated 3% of interview time with Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak to climate change as UK smouldered

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As the effects of the climate crisis are seen in global heatwaves and droughts, oil firms are booming

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Johnson’s political project was to destroy what trust was left in UK politics. And he’s succeeded

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Scottish Labour leader reveals that the party’s ideas to solve the UK’s constitutional crisis are meaningless

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Netflix’s hit series is classic portal fiction, but the monsters in its ‘Upside Down’ fit our troubled times

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Billionaires control our politics and our press, yet we’re told unions are the real enemy of the British worker

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While Britain’s democracy is an antiquated theme park, in Scotland, sovereignty lies with the people, not the Crown

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While Johnson will probably survive this vote of no confidence, his eventual successor will be much of the same

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As the Queen marks 70 years on the throne, the Caribbean isn’t the only place ready to ditch the royal family

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Ten royal family questions with a republican twist to take your mind off it all

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Last week, we visited County Down’s coast, taking my toddler daughter on her first-ever trip, just around the bay from where I had mine 33 years ago

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Election results show that the ground is shifting in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But the future of the UK is still up for grabs

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French Muslims say picking between the sitting president and Marine Le Pen is “like choosing between plague and cholera”

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The prime minister built his career by stoking distrust in politics. His fine from the police could end up benefiting him

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With oligarchs using their media outlets to promote far-Right presidential candidates, France is being haunted by its own ghosts

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With oligarchs using their media outlets to promote far-Right presidential candidates, France is being haunted by its own ghosts

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The far-Right party’s opponents needed to fight for people’s lives, not technocratic norms. But it’s Roma and LGBTQ people who will pay the price

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Hundreds have died of COVID because the papers bullied Boris Johnson into lifting lockdown early

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Two elections mark two crucial opportunities to halt Europe’s drift towards authoritarianism. But war in Ukraine adds an extra obstacle

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Weapons are astonishingly expensive and Ukrainians won’t surrender. But those aren’t Vladimir Putin’s only problems

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While the powerful try to silence those who speak back to them, working-class cultures all over the world are quietly being erased. Last in a series of four on the culture wars

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Why have voters in rural constituencies like North Shropshire traditionally voted Conservative, and will changing demographics alter voting patterns in the future?

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For some, it’s a left-wing adoption of neoliberalism. For others, it’s authoritarian. But it’s really just about equality

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For some, the ‘war on woke’ is just common sense. But they’ll find that the pillars holding up England’s traditional hierarchies are rotting

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In memory of our late colleague, a founding editor of openDemocracy, here is a selection of her excellent articles spanning the past 20 years

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Copenhagen was a failure that demotivated activists, while Paris merely placated them. But Glasgow has radicalized a generation.

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Copenhagen was a failure that demotivated activists, while Paris merely placated them. But Glasgow has radicalised a generation

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