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It’s not just Musk - we need to stop British billionaires bankrolling our politics
Keir Starmer needs to introduce new laws to cap individual donations and bar corporate political funding before it’s too late, writes former Electoral…
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Peter Geoghegan
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The police broke the law to spy on journalists - and that should worry us all
A landmark judgment has found that forces across the UK illegally tried to discover journalists’ sources—now we need the full story
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Peter Geoghegan
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Can you help us investigate dark money and hidden influence?
The fight to protect our democracy has never been more serious. Can you help us?
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Peter Geoghegan
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Revealed: Wessex Water’s Malaysian owners under investigation for corruption
Malaysian anti-corruption investigators have launched probe into YTL Power subsidiary over £700m public contract
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Lucas Amin
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Peter Geoghegan
Britain’s new anti-corruption champion has a lot to do
Margaret Hodge will have a very full in-tray. Protecting British politics from dark money and foreign interference needs to be top of the pile.
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Peter Geoghegan
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Now or never to safeguard UK democracy
We want your views on how to clean up our politics
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Peter Geoghegan
MP forced to apologise in Parliament after Democracy for Sale investigation
Plus: Musk’s proposed $100m donation to Farage has focused attention on Britain’s broken electoral laws. Now we need action.
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Peter Geoghegan
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Musk’s $100m to Farage will break our democracy
Keir Starmer needs to fix Britain’s broken electoral laws now - if he doesn’t, we will all suffer the consequences
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Peter Geoghegan
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November 2024

Football’s dirty money problem
Journalist Miguel Delaney on what’s gone wrong with the beautiful game. Plus: the return of Liz Truss’s Growth Commission
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Peter Geoghegan
Labour donor's private healthcare interests revealed
Martin Taylor's hedge fund has shares in a private healthcare giant – critics say Labour should not accept donations from those who “see the NHS as a…
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Peter Geoghegan
Revealed: Government gave £450m in subsidies to sewage-dumping water firm
New documents show government handed taxpayer cash to South West Water while the company paid out billions to shareholders and dumped raw sewage into…
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Lucas Amin
New: Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm behind think tank pushing PFI 2.0
Plus: new report lays bare UK government’s woeful conflicts of interest management
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Peter Geoghegan
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