Why Putin keeps fighting despite Russia’s ‘huge losses’

‘How Netanyahu led Trump down the garden path’ | Salman Rushdie

9/11 revisited + UK’s sovereign AI chief joins US AI company

openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 12 September 2026

Police to crack down on face coverings at protests

How 9/11 changed the world | James O’Brien – The Whole Show

From 9/11 to Southport: The Deadly Blind Spots in Britain’s Counter-Terror System

Suha Kidwai examines why, a quarter-century after 9/11, a system built around extremist ideologies still struggles to confront people fixated on mass violence

‘This is beyond my comprehension’ | James O’Brien

Reform UK Members Dismiss Climate Crisis as ‘Farce’ After Record Summer Heatwaves

Attendees at Nigel Farage's party conference suggest crisis is manufactured by the Government in order to control the population

The chef that survived 9/11 by chance

Mamdani should skip 9/11 memorial, says George Pataki

Trump’s Venezuela: Why seek regime change if you can get regime compliance?

The Trump administration’s forcible appropriation of a fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves is worse than the theft of national assets in post-Soviet Russia.

Conservative Peer Hosts Far-Right Activists Alongside US-Funded Anti-Abortion Group

Prominent Neo-Nazis attended the event in Parliament, hosted by an anti-abortion group, in which they called for politicians to "stop importing an invasive foreign serf…

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John Bolton: ‘Trump knows he’ll be impeached’

I’m not sure what “social class” means | James O’Brien – The Whole Show

Jason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times’ ‘Impossible Data’

The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections and retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media firestorm that…

Trump: ‘I’ll give you $5,000 if I win the midterms’

‘Constant barrage of Russian attacks on UK soil,’ says security expert

Trump’s ‘very strange’ midterm speech | Emily Maitlis reacts

Green Party Split Over Iran as Members Push to Oppose IRGC Ban and Sanctions

A conference motion with significant backing urges an end to sanctions on Iran and opposes banning the IRGC - putting party policy on a collision…