Exclusive: Former electoral commissioner David Howarth says UK government's new Elections bill is a sop to Brexiters that poses ‘serious threats’ to the fairness of future votes
The former chancellor considered a legal injunction to block the verdict of Westminster’s lobbying watchdog
Exclusive: Official who worked on UK-government projects is hiding in Kabul, and says UK authorities won’t reply to his messages
Exclusive: Passengers tell openDemocracy they’ve been forced to remain in Birmingham Airport for more than 24 hours after landing
Exclusive: CIA-backed company made record UK profits after winning multi-million-pound government contracts, while ex-Palantir official given key Test and Trace post
Exclusive: The Home Office has rejected at least 76 Afghan nationals’ requests for asylum in 2021 alone – including ten women and a girl
Government agrees to reveal details of how companies were fast-tracked to win lucrative COVID contracts, after months of blocking transparency
Exclusive: No records were kept of meeting with private company chaired by government’s own PPE tsar
Complaint follows openDemocracy investigation into ‘shocking lack of transparency’, believed to be one of the most wide-scale breaches ever exposed
'Dark money' think tank complained after openDemocracy journalist’s LBC interview with James O’Brien
Exclusive: Ex-PM met the vaccines minister to discuss genome sequencing – two months before the genome firm he advises won contracts worth £870,000
Exclusive: ‘Clear conflict of interests’ as 115 MPs earn thousands of pounds by renting out property
