His findings are depressing to the point of being almost comical: Many Starmerites, Morgan McSweeny included, have set ...

Police promise compassion after Russell Brand’s sentencing, yet the justice system still re-traumatises survivors ...

We are currently researching the full life cycle of military AI’s impacts, going beyond the dangers of war to look at the waste, damage and suffering caused by the resource extraction, manufacturing, ...

While recent election wins and COP31 offer some optimism, they mask a bleak reality. What will it take for real change?

A blunder led John Healey to drop vow to release £1.2bn to former miners from last week's Budget, openDemocracy understands ...

Revealed: Ministers allowed our streets to become ‘test ground’ for robots amid lobbying from Starship Technologies ...

Democracy contributor Adam Ramsay revisits the people and conversations that led to new book on fixing UK democracy ...

Also in this issue, our tech reporter Evie Breese profiles Sofia Liguori, a Google whistleblower who quit her job after ...

Once a month Ilya Stepanov turns into a girl. He registers on a popular Russian social networking site and creates a page apparently belonging to a teenager of 14 or so. ‘Tanya’ or ‘Viktoria’ starts ...

Punta Arenas, Chile. For more than a hundred years, fishermen on Capitán Aracena, an island in Chile’s southernmost territory, have told a local legend about one of the island’s caves. Anybody who ...

As the prime minister of China prepared to meet Her Majesty (or, to quote Bette Midler, "Her Royal Heinie"), the deputy prime minister (his name is Nicholas Clegg) referred to the Beijing regime as a ...

One of the narrative devices that writer Gregory Burke employs in Black Watch is to stage the play around the process of writing a play about the Black Watch regiment. The action begins in a pub ...