Last year, Palantir recorded about £320m in revenue in the UK, but paid less than a million pounds in tax. Revenue is not profit, as the accountants keep telling us – and that’s where the magic ...
In March 2025, a neighbour noticed a foul smell emanating from Ladi Anzaki Olubunmi’s apartment. They called one of her ...
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 conviction that technological progress ...
In Parliaments, TikTok and COP summits, AllatRa spread claims that greenhouse gases are not main cause of climate crisis ...
Palantir is benefiting from millions of pounds of tax deductions that allow it to pay very little corporate tax in the United Kingdom despite soaring profits, an investigation by openDemocracy reveals ...
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Two years after Kenya’s Gen Z uprising forced President William Ruto to withdraw the Finance Bill, organiser Ahmednoor Haji explains how protesters won – and why state violence is driving young people ...
Progressives within Labour and the Green Party have told openDemocracy of their concern over Andy Burnham’s plans to hire one of the UK’s top lobbying bosses to run his No 10 operation. Burnham is set ...
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As Justice Jeremy Johnson sentenced her to six years in prison last Friday, Leona Kamio spoke from the dock: “In order to hear the birds, the drones must be silent.” The line was adapted from a ...
Geamana, Romania. Flickr/Sergiu Bacioiu. Some rights reserved.Geamana was once a peaceful picturesque village in a valley of Romania’s Apuseni branch of the ...