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- Editorial
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- Access
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Latest from openDemocracy
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- Burnham’s AI head secretly briefed tech giants at No 10 adviser’s investment firm
- The Blair connection to Palantir’s tax dodge
- The big Blair-era loophole behind Palantir’s tiny tax bill
- Lessons from Ceuta: State failures and local solidarities
- What the rise in Islamophobia tells us about modern Britain
- In Argentina, a village atop a lithium fortune still waits for basic services
- Netanyahu’s election campaign may worsen Israel’s international isolation
- Leor Zmigrod on why rigid thinking makes us vulnerable to extremism
- The 12-week abortion myth blocking reproductive care across Latin America
- Modi blinks and Britain cracks down
- Burnham’s Labour rises as Reform fumbles, but foreign policy challenges loom
- AI as ‘bullshit innovation’: How corporations monopolise our imaginations
- Cockroaches, Modi and the death of fear
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