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🚨i am being made redundant, alongside many of my amazing colleagues at openDemocracy

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Labour Students/Young Labour discourse seems weird to me, but here's my contribution

Lobbying firm Lowick's current public affairs clients include Google, JP Morgan and Wetherspoons

Great to see The Times cover this letter calling for more transparency and accountability over university funding: opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-… Coordinated by openDemocracy, it follows a series of investigations we did last year.

“He has been protected by the government…enough is enough.” On the 12th anniversary of her murder, the family of Agnes Wanjiru write a letter in the Sunday Times calling for justice - and the unmasking of Soldier X.
⁦⁦Hannah Al-Othman⁩

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🚨 ExxonMobil accused of greenwashing over claims that its ‘carbon capture’ project is reducing emissions

openDemocracy investigation by Ben Webster opendemocracy.net/en/oil-firm-ex…

I am the leave Britney alone guy but for Kalvin Phillips

How Private Eye Magazine first exposed major Tory donor, and now knight, Mohamed Mansour’s company’s tax avoidance and trading in Russia - in January last year

The government's 'independent' advisor of political violence is open about the fact that his work as an arms-trade lobbyist has hardened his views against the right to protest. My profile of Lord Walney/John Woodcock: novaramedia.com/2024/03/20/mee…

Another Westminster lobbying firm bulks up its Labour bona fides

Having Craven firmly in the Labour Together tent will be seen by Lexington’s clients as a major selling point

it's from the bank of chicken

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Starmerite campaign group/think tank Labour Together has appointed Mike Craven as a director. Craven also runs Westminster corporate lobbying firm Lexington

Among others Lexington represents the infamous Australian asset manager Macquarie