CEOs of the six biggest train companies also took home a combined salary of more than £5m in 2020

The UK government is battling ‘vaccine hesitancy’. How does sneaking through a massive deal with a controversial spy tech firm help?

Hancock under pressure to resign as leaked documents show NHS is using knowingly flawed tests for coronavirus

It’s chilling. From the Mail, The Times to the BBC and ITN, everyone is peddling Downing Street’s lies and smears. They’re turning their readers into dupes.

And here’s what needs to happen now

Exclusive: Johnson ruled out lockdown 24 hours after meeting with Sunetra Gupta – resulting in ‘1.3m extra COVID infections’

I’ve been a lobby journalist for decades – but now I've been shut out by No. 10. What are Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings so afraid of?

Last-minute amendment to Public Order Bill lets home secretary slap injunctions on people ‘likely’ to protest

Private dinners, access to ministers, honours – openDemocracy lifts the lid on the exclusive group bankrolling the Conservatives. Shadow minister calls for transparency on ‘cash for access’.

Exclusive: Senior Tory accuses Boris Johnson of overseeing ‘scandal in plain sight’ as it’s revealed party treasurers who donate £3m are almost always offered peerages

And here’s what needs to happen now

Exclusive: Large payments to Johnson and ministers have been kept secret for months – fuelling controversy over lavish Downing Street refurbishment, and much more

Why is the UK government refusing to release details of its ‘unprecedented’ data transfer to US tech giants? If we don’t get answers, we may seek them in the courts.

Hours before openDemocracy was due to sue, government releases massive data-sharing contracts with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Faculty and Palantir.

The Labour leader has called for injunctions against green protesters. Now it has emerged two of his biggest donors were motor industry chiefs

Boris Johnson’s embattled housing minister took charge of another controversial planning decision – days after the property developer donated thousands to the Tories

The PM confirmed Policy Exchange helped draft laws targeting climate activists, as first revealed by openDemocracy

The Cabinet Office minister has been accused of ‘habitual dishonesty', after openDemocracy exposed £560,000 given to close associates

The home secretary ripped up the rule book by forcing through new police powers. So Liberty is taking her to court

Exclusive: Non-executive directors like Gina Coladangelo are meant to ‘challenge’ ministers like Matt Hancock, but new investigations finds many have Conservative ties

Exclusive: Scale of ‘revolving door’ between major energy firms and key Whitehall posts revealed

Revealed: Controversial firm has won previously unreported coronavirus testing contract – while critics label its £108m call centre deal ‘astonishing’ and ‘unethical’.

Unatrac gave the Conservatives £125,000 in January. Six days later the firm's taxpayer-backed deal was announced. Opposition MP calls for official inquiry.

Labour leader’s 28 junkets include Spurs hospitality, two Coldplay concerts and a £380 dinner from Google at Davos

“The reality is a democratic mass movement increasingly frustrated with successive governments who have sought juridical answers to political problems.”

Quadrature’s donation is noteworthy not just for being Labour’s largest-ever, but for its timing ahead of election

Exclusive: Quadrature Capital held shares in arms companies that make Israeli fighter jets and bombs

Exclusive: Proposed hike in power for Tory MPs and ban on UK commission prosecuting election fraud is ‘a real concern in a developed democracy’

Charity Commission accused of failing to control Institute of Economic Affairs, which inspired doomed tax cuts

Exclusive: Hydro Industries donated £20,000 to the Tories at the same time it secured funding meant for struggling businesses

Exclusive: Government accused of wasting taxpayer money after Public First landed contract without competition to deal with exam results debacle

Operation Moonshot could be the biggest NHS privatisation in history, and civil servants are shaking their heads in disbelief.

Opposition MPs demand police inquiry after openDemocracy revealed Conservative treasurers who donate £3m seem almost guaranteed seat in the Lords

Tory leadership hopeful ‘hates’ the policy she brought forward as equalities minister, suggests Iain Duncan Smith

Marketing company with PPE deal, pest control firm with £350m government contracts and politically connected suppliers among those claiming public funds

The health secretary says his plans will put us in control of our health data and suggests no one but our clinicians will see it. But he’s either lying or dreaming

Exclusive: Ambulance service says claims in The Sun and the Daily Mail that protesters slowed paramedics were wrong

Long-running openDemocracy investigation sees ruling that the public has a right to see research produced by the pro-Brexit European Research Group.

Exclusive: Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes also among peers named in official UK ruling, following an openDemocracy investigation

Conservatives accused of being ‘in hock’ to developers as donations from property and construction soars amid ‘cash for access’ accusations against housing secretary Robert Jenrick.

Exclusive: UK government accused of ‘very serious’ transparency failure over meeting with private health firm investors before pandemic

Exclusive: Former electoral commissioner David Howarth says new details of government power grab is exactly what experts feared

Exclusive: Restaurants and bars in the House of Commons cut prices for MPs, as they were bailed out by taxpayers

Jeremy Hosking, who is bankrolling campaigns to scrap UK emissions targets, has given millions to parties led by Nigel Farage and Laurence Fox

The home secretary ripped up the rule book by forcing through new police powers. So Liberty is taking her to court

Exclusive: Ex-PM met the vaccines minister to discuss genome sequencing – two months before the genome firm he advises won contracts worth £870,000

Exclusive: Turkish nationals claim they were illegally put in boats by Greek authorities and returned to Turkey, where they risked persecution

'Dark money' think tank complained after openDemocracy journalist’s LBC interview with James O’Brien

Treasury gave a controversial 30-day grace period to Kremlin-linked VTB Bank – where a senior banker has handed the Tories £44,000 since 2018

It’s chilling. From the Mail, The Times to the BBC and ITN, everyone is peddling Downing Street’s lies and smears. They’re turning their readers into dupes.

This government is an explicit repudiation of everything it means to be a Conservative. History will judge us accordingly.

Revealed: Emails show how Sue Gray was consulted over decision to withhold information about fatal fire

Hounding of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre’s director part of a pattern of attacks on trans-inclusive feminist groups

Exclusive: Lord Geidt, tasked with clearing up government sleaze scandal, is a paid adviser to an arms company with history of corruption allegations

The Royal Family’s archaic-seeming rules and customs obscure its deep connections with modern global corporate power

Exclusive: Safety concerns for LGBTIQ+ attendees at event that whistleblowers feared would promote ‘extremist’ ideologies

Irish journalist who led openDemocracy’s UK investigations appointed editor-in-chief and CEO

Many of us quietly self-isolate, every day. Coronavirus has brought back a darkness I’d long buried. But this time, I know I’m not alone.

Only the rich get to sue for libel. It’s a shame that a few ill-judged tweets have overshadowed such vital journalism

openDemocracy leads campaign to enforce transparency laws as government accused of abusing Freedom of Information Act and blacklisting reporters