openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 03 October 2026 weekly-email-031026

Unless Trump agrees a peace deal, a rural Cotswolds air base could link Burnham’s government to war crimes

Russia won’t stop at Ukraine, Labour conference warned

Flávio Bolsonaro’s Washington-aligned programme amounts to a subordinate economy confined to the US sphere of influence

Burnham’s plan to fund a care system by scrapping the triple lock is a bold political vision built on shaky economics

The PM has the party’s long-maligned progressives divided. Is this a new era, or a familiar fight?

Mobilising an anti-Reform voter coalition takes work, information, and community building, says HOPE not hate

Place for Hope presents: Changed My Mind with Bishop Rosemarie Mallett, Aman Sethi, Alison Goldsworthy and Laura Osborne – Union Chapel, Tue 29 Sep 2026 - Join us for an exclusive live recording of Ch...

“Quite simply the best question I have ever been asked.” That was social psychologist and author Jon Haidt's verdict on the question at the heart of openDemocracy’s long-running podcast, Changed My Mi...

Place for Hope presents: Changed My Mind with Bishop Rosemarie Mallett, Aman Sethi, Alison Goldsworthy and Laura Osborne – Union Chapel, Tue 29 Sep 2026 - Join us for an exclusive live recording of Ch...

openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 26 September 2026

Five years after a landmark referendum, campaigners are pushing to socialise thousands of homes and put tenants, not property giants, in control.

In Tunisia, imprisoned Palestinian rights activists are on the brink of death.

Depleted missiles abroad and armed fortresses at home reveal a president running out of options as midterms loom

Did Western media manufacture consent for Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza?

openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 12 September 2026

Berlin’s March for Life may be getting smaller, but activists warn it is more politically powerful

As data centre companies rake in business, workers say they are being pushed to the limit.

Our research shows Nigel Farage’s anti-elitist brand is vulnerable to stories linking billionaire cash to party policy

After the AfD’s win, activists say resisting the far right means defending the institutions where its politics take hold

openDemocracy’s reporting praised at parliamentary event on abuse victims arrested for assaulting emergency workers

openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 12 September 2026

If we want to save democracy, the institutions of tomorrow must be shaped in accordance with the possibilities of tomorrow.

openDemocracy found its purpose in the need to make sense of the world after the collapse of the twin towers. Revisit our reportage from the time.

openDemocracy found its purpose in the need to make sense of the world after the collapse of the twin towers. Revisit our reportage from the time.

The global war on terror, born from the ashes of the twin towers, perpetuates itself by constantly seeking new targets

Nine months after the US abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a highly unusual oil deal has surfaced.

A renewed emphasis on geo-engineering threatens to draw our attention away from the fact that the current way of living was never sustainable.

openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 5 September 2026

From banned reporters to love-ins with business, the scandal-hit event offers troubling glimpse into a Farage government

A summer of Reform scandals and a new leader have given Labour an edge – if it can resolve three key battles

From political homophobia to anti-Western populism, Africa’s right doesn’t fit neatly into familiar Western boxes

With its discriminatory plans for PIP and social housing, Farage’s party has made clear that we’re not part of its gang

As Anas Sarwar joins Burnham’s government, continuity candidates offer little hope for regaining lost working-class voters

openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 22 August 2026