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Farage aims at Abortion, "No Records" of Mandelson lobbying Govt
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (647+ words) open Democracy Weekly Newsletter 23 May 2026 I was at the "Unite the Kingdom" rally organised by far-right provocateur Tommy Robinson, aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, last Saturday. How was your weekend? There were men costumed as the Knights Templar; there was a fleet…...
How Russia exploited Argentina's media to run influence operations
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1328+ words) Exclusive: Agents linked to the Kremlin "paid" for fake news by fake authors to be published by Argentine press...
How the Kremlin tried to pick a winner in Bolivia's fractured left
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (1291+ words) Exclusive: New dossier exposes how Russian operatives sought to ensure their ally won Bolivia's presidential election...
Russia targeted Milei, but undermined Argentine media
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (1015+ words) Disinformation is never harmless. The fictions spread by Russian operatives across dozens of Argentine media outlets exposed a vulnerability that remains unaddressed In early April, open Democracy revealed how a network linked to the Kremlin placed hundreds of articles in…...
The Gaza convoy trapped in Libya's desert refusing to turn back
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (1220+ words) Hundreds travelling in a Gaza-bound convoy are stuck near Sirte, forced to ration water and rebuild camp infrastructure, but refusing to abandon their mission. "We have been here for four days," says South African writer and academic Jessica Breakey in…...
Is Russia's war economy starting to crack?
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (1509+ words) Ukraine's drone attacks on Moscow suggest the pressures sustaining Putin's war machine are becoming harder to contain. The war in Ukraine is increasingly becoming a war about Russia itself. After more than three years of attritional fighting, the central question…...
open Democracy readers on the chaos in Westminster
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (442+ words) Readers discuss chaos in Westminster, Reform UK, and Palantir open Democracy receives so many carefully considered messages about our work that it seems a shame to keep them to ourselves. Each week, we share some of the most thought-provoking comments…...
Abortion is becoming a new front in Reform UK's culture war
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (1456+ words) Following abortion decriminalisation, analysis from open Democracy and the Fuller Project reveals the UK far right is pushing anti-abortion talking points into mainstream political debate. Data analysed by The Fuller Project and open Democracy reveal that British far-right political parties…...
A new PM won't save us from the far-right
1+ week, 1+ day ago (613+ words) open Democracy Weekly Newsletter 16 May 2026 Of the hundreds of readers who responded to our poll last week, only 24% said they would vote Labour if Keir Starmer stepped down. But that is the bet that Labour must take, and hopefully its…...
How has Reform UK gone so mainstream so fast?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1872+ words) Journalist Daniel Trilling on Farage, right-wing populism, and how "the establishment" normalised Reform Last week"s local elections were about the Labour Party"s loss of faith in its leader, prime minister Keir Starmer, but they were also about the…...