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Exactly, bbc one taken over for three hours. The only thing we would ever have in common withjoe rogan. Serious subject first. We have an inquiry out today, or the first part of an inquiry, that was looking at how Wayne Couzens, the serving metropolitan Police Officer who murdered Sarah Everard in 2021 in london, could ever have been a metropolitan Police Officer. What was it like for you, as somebody who has got political oversight of that force, reading that report . Because in every single pa...

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A response to two articles by Wayne Price in the anarchist journal Black Flag.

Interview, after the European elections, with the director of FanPage.it, who has traveled across Europe to write a book about the rise of the far-right.

The history of Serbia remain poorly understood and is not discussed enough, but how did it transition from a narrative of being an oppressed people to perpetrator of a genocide?...

Open Democracy wins IPSO complaint against the Express website over an article wrongly suggesting it was run by billionaire George Soros.

Parliamentary commissioner for standards says there was not sufficient evidence to justify opening investigation into John Baron

And if one can peddle misinformation on behalf of oil barons, one can peddle great big fat lies for green billionaires too.

Unionised openDemocracy staff expressed a loss of confidence in CEO Satbir Singh and Board Chair Suzanna Taverne. (Screengrab via openDemocracy/YouTube)…