Elsewhere, as Israel continues to deny the media access to Gaza and international coalitions seek new ways to reach the ...

UK’s weak lobbying laws leave public in the dark about Flint Global’s vast access to government under James Purnell ...

Another is the vexed issue of the proxy wars, with the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict being the most difficult. The on-off discussions between Israel and the Lebanese government might imply that this ...

In 2024, Palantir’s effective tax rate was just 8%, far less than the usual 25%, despite £25.3m of pre-tax profits ...

David Potter, who died on 28 June, was the UK’s pioneering engineer and entrepreneur of the computer age. In 1980, he founded Psion, a technology company that went on to create the world’s first ...

Campaign against luxury developments in protected wetlands has become national revolt over land, corruption and power ...

Progressives within Labour and the Green Party have told openDemocracy of their concern over Andy Burnham’s plans to hire one of the UK’s top lobbying bosses to run his No 10 operation. Burnham is set ...

In March 2025, a neighbour noticed a foul smell emanating from Ladi Anzaki Olubunmi’s apartment. They called one of her ...

While the US imagines AI through dystopia and lost human agency, China’s embrace of the technology is shaped by memories of poverty, national humiliation and the conviction that technological progress ...

Two years after Kenya’s Gen Z uprising forced President William Ruto to withdraw the Finance Bill, organiser Ahmednoor Haji explains how protesters won – and why state violence is driving young people ...

Last year, Palantir recorded about £320m in revenue in the UK, but paid less than a million pounds in tax. Revenue is not profit, as the accountants keep telling us – and that’s where the magic ...