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A ‘Brainwashed Death Cult’: The Gamification of Conspiracy
Heidi Siegmund Cuda investigates how the QAnon movement modelled itself on popular gaming culture
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Delay is the New Denial: How Big Polluters Continue to Fight Climate Science
light of the IPCC’s report warning that climate change is a ‘code red for humanity’, Thomas Perrett reports on how fossil fuel companies have subtly changed their tactics to continue avoiding the reforms required to combat greenhouse gas emissions
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Right-Wing Churches Could Kill Millions in Africa with Anti-Vaccine Conspiracies
CJ Werleman reports on the disinformation being disseminated by those on the Christian right around the Coronavirus which is now spreading via social media to followers further afield
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‘An Appropriate Donor’: AI Research at Oxford University Funded by Controversial Firm Linked to Chinese State
A £300,000 artificial intelligence project at the university is sponsored by Tencent – a Chinese company reportedly involved in censorship, surveillance, and Xi Jinping’s propaganda regime
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Touring in Europe: The Broken Instruments of Brexit
Philippe Auclair discusses the cultural isolation and loss which will result from British musical artists being deterred from performing in Europe
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While Britain Obsesses Over Europe, Europe Turns Away
Though Brexit no longer dominates the headlines in Europe, Europeans view it with a mixture of pity and concern, and look forward to the UK returning to its senses soon – if not to the EU
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Government Procurement and the Lack of Trust
After the scandal of crony contracts, Stephen Colegrave digs into the Government’s Green Paper setting out a new regime to regulate nearly £300 billion in public spending
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Will the Independent Press Standards Organisation Ever Uphold Any Standards?
After 28 breaches and four libel cases, the Jewish Chronicle is accused of a collapse in journalistic standards. But will the regulator IPSO do anything about it? Brian Cathcart reviews the evidence
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Tucker Carlson’s Visit to Hungary: Lobbying, Free Speech and Far-Right Conspiracy
Fox News’ bombastic Conservative commentator, Tucker Carlson, meets Hungary’s authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, two years after a firm where his father is a director received thousands from the Hungarian Government to help with media and PR, Sian Norris reports
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Northern Ireland Amnesty: ‘How can you Build Reconciliation on Denying People the Right to Truth?’
Anne Cadwallader reports on cross-party opposition in Northern Ireland and among human rights groups to the UK Government’s decision to end prosecutions for crimes committed during the ‘Troubles’
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COP 26: The Government is Still in Thrall to Fossil Fuel Lobbyists
Behind the rhetoric on climate change action, the British Government is still heavily under the influence of the oil and gas industry, and their supporters in aviation and transport
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‘Dancing Queen?’: The Fixed Term Parliaments Act and the Return of the Royal Prerogative
Historian Robert Saunders considers the constitutional consequences of a new bill which transfers the power to dissolve Parliament to the Crown and removes checks on the Prime Minister
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Conservative PR Firm Linked to Black Lives Matter Hoax That Fooled Right-Wing Press
A fake organisation designed to stir up the US culture war is linked to a Utah PR firm that has connections with Republicans and dark-money groups
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Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Anti-Vaxx Website Shared More than World Health Organisation
receiving more Twitter shares than the World Health Organisation and Centers for Disease Control
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Why is the UK’s ‘World Beating’ COVID-19 Vaccination Programme Stalling?
Social scientist Colin Talbot analyses the summer slowdown of the Government’s mass immunisation campaign
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Breaking Taboos: ‘We Need to Talk About Money’
Poppy Sebag-Montefiore speaks to Otegha Uwagba about her new book, which questions why those who have benefitted from financial help are so reluctant to be transparent about it
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The New Armenian Diaspora: Nowhere To Go, No Home to Go Back To
Angelo Calianno talks to a few of the 65 thousand forgotten and abandoned refugees who fled the Azeri invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh
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Revealed: The Involvement of Palantir and Faculty in the UK Public Sector
Peter Thiel’s Palantir and an AI-company linked to Dominic Cummings combined have won public sector contracts worth over £100 million – including contracts connected to NHS data. Max Colbert reports with The Citizens
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Witnessing the Final Days of NATO’s Mission in Afghanistan
George Fairhurst reports from Kabul where Afghan civilians fear a looming catastrophe as the Taliban gain ground and President Biden leads the retreat from the ‘forever war’
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Automated Culture Wars: Digital Astroturfing Campaign Amplifies Fox News-inspired GB News
Caroline Orr assesses the dangers of an over reliance on fake eyeballs as the recently launched news channel shifts its focus way from TV ratings to social media
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Governments Must Focus on Degrowth to Combat Climate Change
Curtailing excess production and waste could help save the planet and create more equitable societies, says Thomas Perrett
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A Culture of Institutional Violence: The Lambeth Child Abuse Inquiry Exposes how the System is the Scandal
In the wake of the Lambeth Council findings by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Katharine Quarmby considers why the systemic failings around locking vulnerable people up out of sight, out of mind are never acted upon
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The UK’s New Elite Regiment and the Evasion of Democracy
Murray Jones of Action on Armed Violence explores whether the specialist forces will simply be allowed to fly under the radar
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Chinese Social Media Campaign Gaslights Uyghur Genocide
CJ Werleman and Katherine Denkinson investigate the strange Truman Show world of ‘Sabira Samat’ and her sister
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Watch Your Tone! How Women MPs of Colour are Tone-Policed
n the same week that Dawn Butler was expelled from the House of Commons, MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan was ‘tone-policed’ by a white MP – and not for the first time. Sian Norris analyses a worrying trend
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‘What is he Doing for his Wage?’: Lord Philip Hammond’s Revolving Door Continues
ust two years after leaving office, the former Chancellor and life peer is now free to lobby the Government on behalf of businesses registered in tax havens and set up by Conservative peers
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Using Democracy to Undermine Equality: Hungary’s Referendum on LGBTIQ Rights is Part of a Wider Pattern
Voters in Ireland, Estonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Croatia have all been asked to vote on LGBTIQ equality in the past decade – now Hungary’s population will go to the ballot box to decide on the same issue
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‘Deeply Troubling’: Investigative Journalism Finds Itself Heading Towards ‘Authoritarian Police State’
Proposed changes to the Official Secrets Act by the Home Office would see investigative journalists threatened with up to 14 years in prison for ‘unauthorised disclosures’
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The National Trust and the Culture War: A Dissection of Dishonest Journalism as a Tool of the ‘War on Woke’
Again and again, newspapers hounding the heritage body refuse to let facts get in their way, reports Brian Cathcart
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Australia’s COVID Calamity and the Shock Jocks Feeding It
The toxic influence of right-wing radio has played a role in the country’s changing fortunes when it comes to the Coronavirus pandemic, says CJ Werleman
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‘World Health Organisation Doomed the World by Concealing Evidence of Airborne COVID Transmission’
A former senior advisor to the SARS Commission believes there should be an investigation into how responses to the Coronavirus pandemic were based on an outmoded theory, leading to the deaths of healthcare workers
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Qatari Officials, Tabloid Supremos and Conservative Donors: Ministers’ Meetings Revealed
Sam Bright delves into the new records showing who has had the ear of Government ministers
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Tens of Thousands of EU Citizens in UK could have Missed Out on Applying for Settled Status, Lords Warn
In a new report, peers also raise concerns about the lack of certificates issued to those who have obtained settled status – raising concerns about how this group can prove that they have a right to be in the country
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‘A Convenient Scapegoat’: Empty Shelves are due to Brexit Not the Pingdemic – Here’s the Evidence
With supply chain problems being blamed on workers self-isolating, Caolan Robertson reports on what business owners, managers and labourers have been telling him across the country about the consequences of Brexit
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The Runaway Train: Whistleblowers Accuse HS2 of ‘Concealing the Truth’ Over Controversial Project’s Costs
Two former senior members of staff claim that they were sacked after they sought to reveal the true property costs of the project
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The Pandemic Middle Class: The Unequal Impact of Test and Trace
As people turn off the ‘Test and Trace’ app to avoid being told to self-isolate, Sophia Alexandra Hall investigates the class implications of the ‘pingdemic’
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‘Met Police Response to its Institutional Corruption is a Form of Institutional Corruption’
The chair of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel says the Metropolitan Police’s immediate denial of systemic issues of corruption in the force demonstrates the very problem its report into a 34-year-old unsolved murder highlighted
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The ‘Red Wall’ Myth: How Pollsters Can Make Words Mean Anything
Northern Powerhouse, Freedom Day, Levelling Up – Mic Wright dissects the US import of political buzzphrases to shape rather than sample public opinion
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Divorced From Reality: How Legal Loans Racked Up Half a Million Debt for a Standard Divorce
As 10 years of legal aid cuts take their toll, litigation lenders are accused of ‘pressure-sold’ high interest loans
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Firm Linked to Conservatives will Run New Immigration Detention Centre for Women
Mitie is the largest single provider of immigration detention services, has a Conservative peer on its board, and a history of poor service and provision for vulnerable migrants
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The Character Assassination of Meghan Markle
As the tabloids speculate that a newly-announced autobiography of Prince Harry will really have been written by his wife, Richard Sanders sheds light on a 21st century tale of racism, class and misogyny
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Corporate Greenwashing: An Obstacle on the Road to Net Zero
Thomas Perrett argues that government intervention is required to counteract the problems posed by companies focused on PR rather than reducing CO2 emissions
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CitizenGO’s Global Ambitions Threaten Women’s Rights in East Africa
In the first two parts of her series on CitizenGO, Sian Norris looked at who is behind the anti-rights movement in Spain. In this third article, she explores how the organisation operates in the Global South, including its attack on sexual and reproductive rights in Kenya.
