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openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 27 June 2026

The Jewish National Fund is trying to displace another Palestinian family from Silwan

The Shaludi family are the target of one of the latest disputes in a campaign of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement, carried out by the…

Climate deniers now attack kids for being too warm | James O’Brien – The Whole Show

Israel was behind 25% of the world’s violations against children in 2025

Save the Children has responded to a new UN report by highlighting that Israel was responsible for at least one in four of the world’s…

The human cost of IOF aggression in Sidon

Lebanon — After seventy-two hours of continuous ceasefire, the southern port city of Sidon was looking completely transformed on Tuesday (23 June). Shops were open…

‘He should go away and do none of this’ | Huw Edwards launches blog

Heatwave: Greens call for emergency meeting of EU leaders

Amid a record-breaking heatwave across the continent, European environment ministers met in Luxembourg on 25 June. The European Green Party is calling on the ministers…

Exclusive: Unite tells Community members ‘cancel fuel poverty protest with Greenpeace’

Unite Community (UC), set up by then-general secretary Len McCluskey, is the Unite union’s section for unwaged people — and Unite’s most politically active. But…

Walk Zara Home silent vigil and protest – end violence against women and girls

On Saturday 27 June 2026, Zara Aleena’s family, friends and supporters will gather at Valentines Park, Ilford, to Walk Zara Home. It’s an annual silent…

Campaigners react to damning report on Nottingham maternity care failures

Charities and campaigning organisations have reacted with sadness and a damning lack of surprise to the findings of the Ockenden Report, which detailed extensive failings…

The Left Needs to Stop Running From the Past

Before Burnham won the Makerfield by-election, he condemned “40 years of neoliberalism.” Blair retorted: “Back to the 70s?” Many voters cried out: “yes please!” And…

Understanding China’s pragmatic AI optimism

While the US imagines AI through dystopia and lost human agency, China’s embrace of the technology is shaped by memories of poverty, national humiliation and…

The Burnham Coup

Without so much as a leadership contest, it is becoming clear that Andy Burnham will be Prime Minister within weeks. Substantive change to the Labour…

Microsoft worker emails thousands of colleagues about company’s support for genocidal ‘Israel’

On his final day at the company, a Microsoft worker in Italy has sent out an email to thousands of colleagues informing them of how…

Creatively factual Telegraph article claims Miliband is being mean to the military

On 25 June, low-grade looroll manufacturer the Telegraph published a perfect right-wing, rage-baiting scoop: the hated net zero secretary has blocked oil drilling, depriving the…

Is money laundering the issue that could reshape British politics?

Andy Burnham would be wise to turn attention to how the economy is being cheated of billions of pounds a year

Flamingos, Jared Kushner, and Albania’s fight against Trump’s Resorts

Campaign against luxury developments in protected wetlands has become national revolt over land, corruption and power

Billionaire Camden Market owner funds Israel’s genocidal military

Teddy Sagi, the billionaire owner of London’s Camden Market and of online competitions, finances Israel’s genocidal military according to a new report. Forbes estimates that…

Senior DWP figure made ableist joke outside Access to Work inquiry

A senior civil servant in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) made an ableist joke whilst waiting to give evidence on the department’s failings.…

You will die at 30

This is the first episode of our new narrative non-fiction podcast, How to Find Queer Elders that follows the life-affirming journey of Awo Dufie, a…