🔴 REVEALED: Train companies paid out nearly £800m to shareholders last year before telling rail unions that employees must take a real-terms pay cut for them to stay afloat
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- 🗣️ Here's what a Conservative MP had to say about a new bill that could limit the right to protest -- it may surprise you. Read more on the Public Order Bill here 👇 opendemocracy.net/en/public-orde…
00:00 - Suella Braverman has refused to accept the findings of a report by cross-party MPs that found internal failings rather than a rise in migrants crossing the Channel are to blame for the breakdown of the asylum system. bit.ly/3WbuJLI
- BREAKING: We've just issued a lawsuit against the UK government over its £23m NHS data deal with Palantir. Here's why 👇
- BREAKING: Leaks show NHS using ‘knowingly flawed’ tests, missing 25% of positive coronavirus cases – Hancock under pressure to resign.
- WE WON! 🙌 This is a significant legal victory against the UK government. The judgement forces transparency on a secretive unit accused of ‘blacklisting’ Freedom of Information requests from journalists, campaigners and others. ~thread
- EXCLUSIVE: "It’s chilling. From the Mail, The Times to the BBC and ITN, everyone is peddling Downing Street’s lies and smears," says Peter @OborneTweets. "They’re turning their readers into dupes."
- We've won our lawsuit over Matt Hancock's £23m NHS data deal with Palantir
- 🚨 URGENT: We're issuing a legal challenge to halt the government's plans to seize the GP data of everyone in England without proper consent bit.ly/2SV8aiv
- The way the Spanish authorities handle Catalan claims to independence violates Rule of Law in the EU. Open letter. opendemocracy.net/can-europe-mak…
- BREAKING: A scientist who advised Boris Johnson against introducing a lockdown last autumn was bankrolled by a billionaire Tory donor, openDemocracy can reveal. PM ruled out lockdown 24 hours after meeting with Sunetra Gupta.
- BREAKING: Downing Street has banned openDemocracy from asking questions at the daily COVID briefings. Why?
- BREAKING: Gove’s Cabinet office is running an ‘Orwellian’ unit to ‘blacklist’ journalists & block sensitive FOI requests. What are they hiding? Today @openDemocracy announces a legal bid w/ @LeighDay_Law to challenge govt secrecy. opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
- Last-minute amendment to Public Order Bill would let home secretary slap injunctions on people ‘likely’ to protest bit.ly/3T9eGMx
