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It’s easy to view the attempted rollback of rights as an American problem. But LGBTQ rights are at risk here, too ...

Migrant workers’ legal precarity reveals incompatibility of Labour’s policies on worker’s rights and immigration ...

Mainstream pivots hand Farage a perfect foil: his programme reads as the original, everyone else as knockoffs. And that matters. Far-right projects are cumulative and path-dependent – built through ...

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Readers highlight inconsistency of protesters outside asylum hotels after we reveal army paid out £8m for child abuse ...

Normal sympathy towards Turkish religious communities on the part of the public has recently been ruffled by a series of controversies linked to their expanding ...

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The Ministry of Defence has spent more than £8m compensating survivors of historic child sex abuse committed by military personnel or on military bases since 2017, openDemocracy can reveal. A ...