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Why are British and European politicians obsessed with Denmark's immigration strategy? We uncover the dark reality of the "Danish Model" and how it punishes asylum seekers by design.

Politicians across Europe - including the UK government - increasingly point to the so-called "Danish Model" as the ultimate solution for controlling borders, immigration, and asylum. But beyond the political talking points, what does this model actually look like on the ground?
In this episode of In Solidarity, host Aman Sethi sits down with Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, the first-ever Danish Professor in Migration and Mobility Law. They break down the harsh reality of "indirect deterrence," how Europe's most liberal border became its strictest, and the secret history of the modern passport.
Finally, they unpack the recent push by the UK and Denmark to bypass the European Court of Human Rights, and what that means for the future of global mobility. If you want to understand the reality behind the political rhetoric on border control, this is your essential briefing.
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is the director of MOBILE, the Danish National Research Foundation's Center of Excellence on Global Mobility Law.

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Chapters:
00:00 The Cruelty of the "Danish Model"
01:59 What Actually is the Danish Asylum Strategy?
05:39 Does "Indirect Deterrence" Actually Stop Migration?
07:16 The Human Cost: Punishing Migrants to Send a Message
14:18 The Secret History of the Modern Passport
19:00 The UK and Denmark's Plot Against Human Rights Law

Credits:
Presented by Aman Sethi
Audio engineering by James Battershill
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Are anti-rights movements infiltrating high schools? We uncover the deliberate, decades-old strategy the far-right is using to target young people, weaponise their insecurities, and build a pipeline of extremist power.
In this episode of In Solidarity, openDemocracy’s Senior Investigations Reporter Sian Norris sits down with Jamie Vernaelde, Senior Researcher at Ipas. They dive deep into a chilling new report detailing how far-right and anti-rights movements are actively grooming the next generation. From exploiting economic and physical insecurities to pumping massive financial investments into youth pipelines, Jamie exposes the conservative playbook for molding young minds.
More importantly, they discuss what the progressive movement is getting wrong about youth engagement and how we can fight back by giving young people the space and resources to lead.
Read the full report here: https://www.ipas.org/resource/future-proofing-the-professionalization-of-an-anti-rights-youth-generation/

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Presented by Aman Sethi
Audio engineering by James Battershill
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Chapters:
00:00 How the Far-Right Targets Gen Z
04:15 Why Young Women are Drifting to the Far-Right
06:23 The 'Tradwife' Trend: A Pipeline to Radicalisation?
08:13 Rebranding Extremism for Secular Youth
11:36 The Wellness-to-Alt-Right Pipeline Explained
13:07 Why Contraception is the Right’s Next Target
15:12 Exposing the Dark Money Behind Anti-Rights Groups
18:04 The Playbook to Weaponise the Courts
20:08 Inside the Global War on Human Rights
22:57 The 'Elite' Seduction: Recruiting on Campus
24:39 Weaponising Victimhood: The Conservative Media Strategy
28:13 The Left’s Blindspot: How Progressives Can Fight Back

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Over 71,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the war began on Oct 7 2023, in what a UN inquiry has described as a “genocide”. When a US-brokered ceasefire was declared in October last year, the world's attention moved on to the next crisis. Since then at least 463 Palestinians had been killed by Israel as of Jan 21 this year, of whom 100 were children, according to the UN Relief and Works Agency.

Anywhere where else in the world, this would be an active conflict. In Palestine, this is what a ceasefire looks like.

In this episode, we speak to Jamil Sawalmeh, the Director of ActionAid Palestine on the situation on the ground in Gaza.

https://palestine.actionaid.org/

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Credits:
Presented by Aman Sethi
Audio engineering by James Battershill
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:41 What is the situation on the ground like Gaza?
07:04 The 'Yellow Line'
10:40 A lack of fresh water
14:00 The great displacement
14:53 Returning to Palestine is impossible
20:08 Reality of the Board Of Peace
24:08 The local infrastructure
28:12 What should the world be doing to help?

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If the US once claimed it was “defending Democracy” to justify attacking countries without pretext, the current administration has made no such excuses.

Last week US security forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife from a compound in Caracas in an operation that killed 70 people.
Maduro was presented in a courtroom in Manhattan, on charges of supposedly “importing tons of cocaine into the United States”, and his deputy Delcy Rodriguez was installed in his place as acting President.
To make this all make sense, we speak with Laura Tedesco, a long time openDemocracy contributor and professor of political science and international relations at St. Louis university in Madrid. Prof. Tedesco is also the author of several books on democracy and politics in Latin America.

Read Laura's Book, Latin America's Leaders: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/8711/9781783601028

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Presented by Aman Sethi
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Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Waring factions have dominated the headlines, but inside the Your Party conference the embers of hope for a different kind of politics were still burning.

Investigative reporter Ethan Shone tells what the mood was like among the party members following months of public spats and PR disasters.

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Presented by James Battershill
Audio engineering by James Battershill
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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