In 2024, Palantir’s effective tax rate was just 8%, far less than the usual 25%, despite £25.3m of pre-tax profits ...

David Potter, who died on 28 June, was the UK’s pioneering engineer and entrepreneur of the computer age. In 1980, he founded Psion, a technology company that went on to create the world’s first ...

Elsewhere, as Israel continues to deny the media access to Gaza and international coalitions seek new ways to reach the ...

In March 2025, a neighbour noticed a foul smell emanating from Ladi Anzaki Olubunmi’s apartment. They called one of her ...

UK’s weak lobbying laws leave public in the dark about Flint Global’s vast access to government under James Purnell ...

Another is the vexed issue of the proxy wars, with the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict being the most difficult. The on-off discussions between Israel and the Lebanese government might imply that this ...

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 ...

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

Godwin's law, the adage that "as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one", reflects the fact that one of the surest ways to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...