Yet another government has failed to deliver for Disabled people: Like her Conservative predecessors, Labour’s Reeves has blamed Disabled people for the state’s problems https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rachel-reeves-budget-fails-disabled-people-labour-party/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Israel increasing violence in Palestine despite Trump’s ‘peace’ deal: Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu appears to have free rein to do as he pleases, as UN Security Council backs Gaza plan https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-gaza-donald-trump-peace-deal-attacks-kill-palestinians-hezbollah/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

The most dangerous ‘school’ in the UK: Army must end child recruitment: British Army is putting 16- and 17-year-olds at risk of abuse in desperate drive to increase troops. That must change https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/british-army-must-end-child-recruitment-afc-harrogate-abuse-revealed/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Climate finance calls for a new economy: OPINION: The idea that developing countries are merely at earlier stages of a universal path to prosperity is misleading https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/cop30-climate-crisis-finance-development-debt-brazil-neoliberalism/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

One month into Gaza ceasefire, what does Palestinians’ future look like?: Israel is still launching deadly strikes on Gaza, as Netanyahu seeks to cling to power until next year’s elections https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/one-month-gaza-israel-ceasefire-palestinians-future-binyamin-netanyahu-hamas-donald-trump/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Even shots on British nationals won’t stop UK’s border expansion: It seems that shootings at sea are just par for the course in Starmer’s longstanding strategy to outsource borders https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/even-shots-on-british-nationals-wont-stop-uks-border-expansion/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

LGBTQ+ migrants at risk in UK detention centres due to poor staff training: Charity calls for an end to LGBTQ+ immigration detention, as poor quality staff training is revealed https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/migrant-rights-lgbt-edi-dei-immigration-detention-centres-training-serco-mitie/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

How Labour is reducing consumer protections | With Ethan Shone: What can we learn about the future of consumer rights from the merger between Microsoft and Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/in-solidarity-podcast/podcast-in-solidarity-ethan-shone-labour-cma-activsion-blizzard/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Keir Starmer’s Labour is a lost cause. But there’s still hope for the left: In choosing big business over ordinary people, the PM has sacrificed the heart of the Labour Party. So what next? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starmer-labour-jeremy-corbyn-zarah-sultana-zack-polanski-your-party-greens-big-business/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

The hidden agenda behind Labour’s desperate efforts to woo big business: The party is steamrolling ahead with deregulation that will benefit big businesses at the expense of consumers. Why? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-deregulation-pro-business-why-reform-uk-nigel-farage-competition-and-markets-defanging/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS