Council that vetoed cash for food banks to spend £50,000 on coronation
Exclusive: Tory-controlled Bromley Council is among those spending a total of £3.8m on royal-themed events
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How spying on campaigners became mainstream in the UK
Many of the UK’s most prominent institutions are using private intelligence firms to snoop on activists
Exclusive: Environmental campaigners ‘spied on’ ahead of Sadiq Khan event
Video shows security official picking out campaigners by name and barring them from mayor of London debate at O2 arena
Government ‘misinformation’ unit flagged investigative journalism and critics
Exclusive: openDemocracy investigation on Westminster secrecy was monitored by shadowy Cabinet Office unit
Johnson will publish memoir – but refuses to hand over ministerial diary
Ex-PM spent a year refusing to release his official ministerial diary. Now he’s publishing his own account instead
A year after Partygate, why is the government still being so secretive?
A year after the news broke about Partygate, the Cabinet Office is still refusing openDemocracy’s FOI requests on key evidence
Pro-Israel lobby group is biggest donor of free overseas trips to MPs
Exclusive: Conservative Friends of Israel funded 155 trips in a decade, more than any other group or government