Once a month Ilya Stepanov turns into a girl. He registers on a popular Russian social networking site and creates a page apparently belonging to a teenager of 14 or so. ‘Tanya’ or ‘Viktoria’ starts ...
Democracy contributor Adam Ramsay revisits the people and conversations that led to new book on fixing UK democracy ...
More than a hundred thousand retired miners who expected their pensions to rise by up to 20% next month have been left with ...
A blunder led John Healey to drop vow to release £1.2bn to former miners from last week's Budget, openDemocracy understands ...
We’re partly responsible here,’ execs tell openDemocracy, as report finds YouTube makes millions on hate speech ...
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Revealed: Ministers allowed our streets to become ‘test ground’ for robots amid lobbying from Starship Technologies ...
Also in this issue, our tech reporter Evie Breese profiles Sofia Liguori, a Google whistleblower who quit her job after ...
The Budget was always going to be the moment that Andy Burnham’s vibes-forward premiership encountered the cold logic of the ...
Having spent 30 years as a Labour MP, I have long argued that tinkering around the edges with the UK’s badly skewed economy ...
Academics, politicians, and campaigners tell openDemocracy of disappointment in the Burnham government’s first Budget ...
One of the narrative devices that writer Gregory Burke employs in Black Watch is to stage the play around the process of writing a play about the Black Watch regiment. The action begins in a pub ...