Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great ...
Aug 16, 2021 · ‘The Great Reset’ conspiracy theories don’t seem to want to die. The theories were triggered by the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) summit last year, which had the theme ‘The Great Reset ...
Labour handed £4m from tax haven-based hedge fund
Sep 18, 2024 · The Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of pounds in fossil fuels, private health firms, arms ...
Ten things you should know about socialism | openDemocracy
Feb 4, 2020 · Over the last 200 years, socialism has spread across the world. In every country, it carries the lessons and scars of its particular history there.
Beyond Corbynism 2.0: Young, left voters and the green wave
Oct 11, 2024 · To have any success, the post-Corbynite left will have to ditch its obsession with icons and celebrities. Despite its roots in social movements, Corbynism became a tightly centralised project, in ...
What Trump’s win means for Africa’s trade and investment
Nov 8, 2024 · One unique point of continuity with prior administrations may lie in Trump’s ties to Africa through family connections. Trump’s son-in-law is Lebanese-Nigerian and remains a potent force in ...
Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond
Aug 27, 2019 · In the late 1970s, the Czechoslovak critic of communism, Vaclav Havel, helped to develop another key piece of terminology, ‘post-totalitarianism’, to describe the contradictory world of ...
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Understanding the UK’s far-right race riots | openDemocracy
Aug 6, 2024 · The ideology. The networked nature of the modern far right means that rather than coalescing around a physical leader, they instead organise around a shared ideology and aim: the Great Replacement ...
BBC bias against Israel doesn’t exist, media researchers find ...
Dec 22, 2023 · Broadcast journalists are sometimes accused of bias against Israel. Such claims have been made, among others, by the pro-Israel media monitoring group BBC Watch and the right-of-centre press.More ...
The biggest donors to Labour and the Tories in 2023
Mar 13, 2024 · Labour’s reliance on companies and individuals over trade unions. Much has been made of Labour’s increasingly close relationship with big business and the wealthy under Keir Starmer.Supporters ...