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We are three years into a public inquiry into undercover policing and arguments are still ongoing about which officers can remain anonymous.
A powerful advertising lobby has just threatened to quit Facebook following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The money should really go into journalism instead.
Lecturers’ strikes brought universities to a halt for most of the last month. But what started as a last resort turned into a movement for the Free University.
In times of unprecedented data accumulation and its control in the hands of a selected few, how can democracy be upheld?
No party has managed to persuade the public that they have a clear plan for Brexit, according to new BMG polling for Left Foot Forward.
The Department for Work and Pensions says it can’t refund £150m in benefits underpayments due to a tribunal ruling. Yet they’ve got round rulings in the past…
The Cambridge Analytica revelations are another sign that the social network is not acting in the interests of the community. For Facebook to be a real social network, it needs to be owned by those who invest their personal lives in it.
Just who is happy with the government’s Brexit plans?
People are waking up the Brexiteers’ £350m-a-week for the NHS lie, it would seem.
Property wealth has risen by 300% over the past 40 years while annual property taxes have fallen by 0.3%.
