Who funds Nigel Farage's Reform UK - and why?: Reform claims to represent the working man, so why are its coffers being filled by 'the elite' it rallies against? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/in-solidarity-podcast/who-funds-reform-uk-nigel-farage-george-cotrell-podcast/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

If the political party you feel most aligned with took a donation from a source you're morally opposed to, would you change your voting behaviour? _ We just released the newest episode of our podcast In Solidarity where we took a look at who is funding Reform UK and why.

Who is funding Nigel Farage’s Reform party - and why? | In Solidarity - by openDemocracy

With Ethan Shone

County lines and cuckooing: an ‘appalling failure of child protection’: Children across the UK are used to sell drugs, and the state appears more interested in arresting them than helping https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/county-lines-and-cuckooing-an-appalling-failure-of-child-protection/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Weak UK lobbying laws let fossil fuel giants influence climate policies: Oil and gas firms were able to water down or change Conservative policies without scrutiny, new report finds https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/weak-uk-lobbying-laws-let-fossil-fuel-giants-influence-climate-policies/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Let's try to predict the future! Do you think the government's planned welfare reform will pass when the vote takes place next Tuesday? In April, Mary-Ann Stephenson told us that women will be disproportionately affected by these proposed changes, here's why: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/disability-benefits-cuts-hurt-women-most-carers-rachel-reeves-keir-starmer/ #UK #UkPol #UK_Politics #Labour #Starmer #LabourParty #Welfare

What next for Iran-Israel conflict after US strikes on nuclear facilities?: Donald Trump has gone fully in on Israel’s war aims. That decision may yet come back to hurt him – and Keir Starmer https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/what-next-iran-israel-conflict-us-strike-fordow-nuclear-trump-netanyahu/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Activists’ arrests must be reviewed after government drops anti-protest law: Labour has quietly dropped legal fight over unlawful crackdown on protest. But what about those already arrested? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/protest-law-braverman-overturned-labour-yvette-cooper-liberty-greta-thunberg/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

20 years ago I warned that attacking Iran would not end well. That’s still true: Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear programme may mark the start of a long and drawn-out global conflict https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/iran-israel-nuclear-us-attacks-long-drawn-out-conflict-netanyahu-trump/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Inside Bolsonarists’ campaign to impose US sanctions on Brazilian judges: Former president's son and his allies are lobbying US government to punish judges investigating 2022 coup attempt https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/eduardo-bolsonaro-lobbying-us-sanctions-brazil-justice-supreme-court-marco-rubio-figueiredo-moraes-magnitsky-act-coup/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Locked up: Protestors in prison with Katy Watts: Protestors now face lengthy prison sentences for 'conspiring to cause disruption', we asked a human rights lawyer what this means for us all. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/in-solidarity-podcast/liberty-protest-laws-prisons-labour-conservatives/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS