Our plan for this week was to report from Reform’s conference in Birmingham, but our reporter Ethan Shone was banned from the ...

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

Reform has accepted more large donations than any other party in 2026, despite mounting funding scandals, new data shows ...

In October 2024, things weren’t looking good for Jonathan Gullis. The former MP and Conservative Party deputy chair had been unable to find work as a teacher, his old profession, since losing his ...

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

He is also currently under parliamentary investigation over an undeclared £5m gift from Reform’s Thai-based billionaire donor ...

US litigation forcing Meta to overhaul teen safety settings creates powerful new template for European tech enforcement ...

So it is on the last bank holiday of the summer, we are taking a moment at openDemocracy to reflect on everything we’ve done ...

A Montenegro-based company founded by George Cottrell has closed after weeks of intense scrutiny over the convicted fraudster ...

When Enver Hoxha, Albania's long-term Stalinist dictator, was buried with honour under the socialist-realist statue of Mother Albania in the martyrs' cemetery in Tirana, the date of his death - 11 ...

Image: British Rail logo, Flickr/Everyman Films. Some rights reserved. In the debate around Labour’s position on Brexit, siren voices on the left assert the single ...

René Lefort has been writing about sub-saharan Africa since the 1970s and has reported on the region for Le Monde, Le Monde diplomatique, Libération, Le Nouvel Observateur.